Peniel Baptist Church
Peniel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 37 Forks Rd in Islandton, SC 29929. It is one of 13 churches in Islandton.
37 Forks Rd, Islandton, SC, 29929Phone: (843) 866-2744
Peniel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,022 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 71,874 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 Peniel Baptist Church
It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Food Insecurity: 25.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.5% (11.2–29.9%)
- Unemployment: 15.6% (8.6–22.8%)
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (14.4–30.0%)
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Peniel Baptist Church
- Pemel Church — 0 mi away
- Adnah Church — 0.5 mi away
- Deep Creek Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Hope Church — 1.9 mi away
- Indian Creek Church — 1.9 mi away in Ruffin, SC
- Indian Creek Pentecostal Holiness Church — 2.1 mi away in Ruffin, SC
- Shiloh Church — 2.6 mi away in Ruffin, SC
- Heyward Church — 3.2 mi away in Ruffin, SC
- Rice Patch Christian Church — 3.5 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Ruffin, SC
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Ruffin Baptist Church — 8.9 mi away in Ruffin, SC
- Sandy Run Baptist Church — 9.4 mi away in Hampton, SC
- Ashton Baptist Church — 10.1 mi away in Lodge, SC
- Hendersonville Baptist Church — 10.4 mi away in Walterboro, SC
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