Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church
Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 805 Cherokee Avenue in Gaffney, SC 29340. It is one of 107 churches in Gaffney, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wheelchair accessible
805 Cherokee Avenue, Gaffney, SC, 29340Phone: (864) 489-2568 · Website: https://www.cherokeeavenuebaptistchurch.com/
Cherokee Avenue 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.
Ministries at Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church
- Children's Ministry
- Youth Ministry
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The community around Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 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 two thousand 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: 71.2%
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Food Insecurity: 39.9%
- Poverty Rate: 37.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (4.2–17.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (8.6–19.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gaffney city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 436 residents.
Churches near Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North East Fellowship Church Of God — 0.2 mi away
- Limestone Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mission of Grace — 0.4 mi away
- Church Of The Living Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Shalom Christian Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- True Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kirby Memorial Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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