Poe Baptist Church
Poe Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 13 2nd Avenue in Greenville, SC 29609. It is one of 487 churches in Greenville, and one of 145 Baptist congregations in the city.
13 2nd Avenue, Greenville, SC, 29609Poe 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 Poe 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 a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 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.
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Poverty Rate: 30.8% (20.7–41.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.5% (14.3–30.8%)
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (2.0–16.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Poe Baptist Church
- River of Life Church — 0 mi away
- Chayah Church of Worship — 0 mi away
- Park Place Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Greenville Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace and Peace Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Griggs Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ministerio Apostolar CC South Carolina — 0.4 mi away
- Rutherford Rd Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Penecostes Fuente de Agua Viva — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greenville Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Griggs Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Vietnamese Blessings Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hội Thánh Phước Hạnh Vietblessing church — 0.5 mi away
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