Sweet Branch Baptist Church
Sweet Branch Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Olar, SC 29843. It is one of 10 churches in Olar, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Olar, SC, 29843Sweet Branch 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 — 71,872 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 Sweet Branch Baptist Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (10.2–36.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (1.4–17.0%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (7.3–17.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sweet Branch Baptist Church
- Georges Creek Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Sweet Branch Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Govan, SC
- Salem Church — 2.6 mi away in Denmark, SC
- Govan First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Govan, SC
- St. Phillips Church of God in Christ — 2.7 mi away in Govan, SC
- Bethel Church — 3.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Barnwell, SC
- First Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Holiness Church — 3.3 mi away
- Bethel Church — 3.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Georges Creek Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Sweet Branch Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Govan, SC
- Govan First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Govan, SC
- Friendship Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Barnwell, SC
- First Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
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