Kirby Memorial Baptist Church
Kirby Memorial Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 512 Chandler Drive in Gaffney, SC 29340. It is one of 98 churches in Gaffney, and one of 55 Baptist congregations in the city.
512 Chandler Drive, Gaffney, SC, 29340Website: https://www.kirbychurch.org/
Kirby Memorial Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Kirby Memorial 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 nearly half 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: 74.9%
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Food Insecurity: 46.6%
- Poverty Rate: 43.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.2–23.4%)
- Unemployment: 10.8% (4.5–17.0%)
- Depression: 24.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gaffney city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 436 residents.
Churches near Kirby Memorial Baptist Church
- Shalom Christian Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church Of The Living Christ — 0.3 mi away
- The Salvation Army Gaffney, SC — 0.3 mi away
- Beech Street Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- North East Fellowship Church Of God — 0.5 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Innov8tion Point — 0.5 mi away
- Bethseda Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away