Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 500 East Montgomery Street in Gaffney, SC 29340. It is one of 107 churches in Gaffney, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.
500 East Montgomery Street, Gaffney, SC, 29340Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (864) 489-1604 · Website: https://www.centralbaptistgaffney.com/
Central 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 — 71,417 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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Latest from Central Baptist Church of Gaffney, SC's YouTube channel: Rev. Clay Jones: September 13, 2026 "When Discipleship Gets Real" Mark 9: 38-50 (all videos).
The community around Central Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 66.8%
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Food Insecurity: 39.1%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (9.4–20.7%)
- Unemployment: 9.2% (3.7–14.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Depression: 24.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gaffney city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 436 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.1 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Incarnation — 0.2 mi away
- Innov8tion Point — 0.3 mi away
- Dunton United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Buford Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Limestone Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Limestone Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gaffney First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethseda Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Limestone Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gaffney First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kirby Memorial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Indian Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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