Temple Baptist Church

Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 21215 Highway 76 East in Laurens, SC 29360. It is one of 70 churches in Laurens, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.

21215 Highway 76 East, Laurens, SC, 29360

Temple 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 — 71,418 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

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 31.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
  • Diabetes: 18.4%
  • Obesity: 40.8%
  • Social Isolation: 35.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.7% (13.6–31.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0% (13.3–24.7%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
  • Unemployment: 8.1% (1.9–14.8%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
  • Child Poverty: 27.2% (13.5–41.7%)
  • Depression: 23.4%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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