Temple Baptist Church
Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1508 Cherokee Avenue in Gaffney, SC 29340. It is one of 107 churches in Gaffney, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.
1508 Cherokee Avenue, Gaffney, SC, 29340Temple 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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The community around Temple 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: 77.4%
- Obesity: 48.7%
- Food Insecurity: 45.0%
- Poverty Rate: 44.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.1%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (9.5–21.0%)
- Unemployment: 11.7% (4.9–18.6%)
- Depression: 24.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Temple Baptist Church
- Johnson Memorial Tablenacle Of Love Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Gaffney Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beech Street Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church Of The Living Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Shalom Christian Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- North East Fellowship Church Of God — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Christian Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Gaffney Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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