First Baptist Church-Prosperity
First Baptist Church-Prosperity is a Baptist church at 115 Wessinger Drive in Prosperity, SC 29127. It is one of 19 churches in Prosperity, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
115 Wessinger Drive, Prosperity, SC, 29127Website: http://www.firstbaptistprosperitysc.org/
First Baptist Church-Prosperity 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 First Baptist Church-Prosperity
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Social Isolation: 31.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (7.6–25.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church-Prosperity
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ascension Ministries — 1 mi away
- Wrightman United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Prosperity Church of God — 1.2 mi away
- Antioch Church — 1.3 mi away
- Shiloh Church — 1.4 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away
- Bachman Chapel Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away in Newberry, SC
- Colony Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away in Newberry, SC
- Mount Hebron AME Church — 3.4 mi away in Pomaria, SC
More Baptist churches nearby
- James Hopewell Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Newberry, SC
- Boozer Chapel Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Newberry, SC
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Newberry, SC
- Glenn Street Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Newberry, SC
- Bethel Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away
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