Edmund First Baptist Church
Edmund First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6256 Edmund Hwy in Lexington, SC 29073-8233. It is one of 103 churches in Lexington, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
6256 Edmund Hwy, Lexington, SC, 29073-8233Phone: (803) 755-3636 · Website: https://www.edmundfirstbaptistchurch.org/
Edmund First 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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Latest from Edmund First Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Wednesday evening service 9/9 (all videos).
The community around Edmund First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Child Poverty: 31.0% (13.2–48.9%)
- Depression: 28.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (16.8–36.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (1.8–17.2%)
- Social Isolation: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (8.5–18.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Edmund First Baptist Church
- Bethel Independent Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Hebron Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- New Life Tabernacle — 1.5 mi away
- Safe Harbor Apostolic Church — 1.6 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away
- Harmony Church — 3.7 mi away in Gaston, SC
- The Rescue Church — 4.2 mi away in Pelion, SC
- First Church of the Living God — 4.2 mi away in West Columbia, SC
- Florence Church — 4.3 mi away in Pelion, SC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Florence Church — 4.3 mi away in Pelion, SC
- South Lexington Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Gaston, SC
- Pelion Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Pelion, SC
- First Baptist Church of Gaston — 6.3 mi away in Gaston, SC
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