Empowerment Ministries
Empowerment Ministries is a church at 1167 Russell Street in Orangeburg, SC 29115. It is one of 93 churches in Orangeburg.
1167 Russell Street, Orangeburg, SC, 29115Phone: +1-803-531-9499 · Website: http://empowerment-ministries.org
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The community around Empowerment Ministries
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 88.8%
- Obesity: 48.3%
- Food Insecurity: 44.6%
- Poverty Rate: 42.4% (30.4–54.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 15.5% (2.8–28.2%)
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (9.3–23.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Orangeburg city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 357 residents.
Churches near Empowerment Ministries
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Moultrie Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St James Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- William Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Vine Temple — 0.3 mi away