Wayside Baptist Church

Wayside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1519 West Main Street in Laurens, SC 29360. It is one of 70 churches in Laurens, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.

1519 West Main Street, Laurens, SC, 29360

Wayside 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 Wayside Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 33.6%
  • Diabetes: 16.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Laurens city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 240 residents.

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