Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 300 South Irby Street, Florence, SC, 29501.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 6pm (School). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Florence, SC is a Baptist church. It is one of 45 Baptist congregations in Florence.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 300 South Irby Street in Florence, SC 29501. It is one of 227 churches in Florence, and one of 45 Baptist congregations in the city.

First Baptist Church of Florence exists to love God and to love people by making disciples who passionately worship, spiritually grow, and intentionally share Jesus with the lost.

We are the church of the living Lord, made up of people who follow Jesus and love to serve Him by serving others.

300 South Irby Street, Florence, SC, 29501

Service times

Sunday 6pm · School

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,009 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around First Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

Child Poverty: 69.6%
Poverty Rate: 36.1% (24.6–47.5%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
Food Insecurity: 31.4%
Diabetes: 20.8%
Obesity: 44.2%
Social Isolation: 35.5%
Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
Transportation Barriers: 15.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Florence city is served by 72 churches — about one congregation for every 514 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Santuary — 0.1 mi away
St John's Church (Anglican) — 0.2 mi away
The Church Of Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
Central United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Grace Ministries - Florence SC — 0.2 mi away
Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Cumberland United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
Open Door Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Greater Zion First African Baptist Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Greater Zion First African Baptist Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
New Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away

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