Gilead Freewill Baptist Church
Gilead Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Scranton, SC 29591. It is one of 24 churches in Scranton, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Scranton, SC, 29591Gilead Freewill 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 Gilead Freewill Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 27.8%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
- Child Poverty: 23.0% (6.1–39.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 16.6% (10.2–22.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (5.0–19.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gilead Freewill Baptist Church
- Cameron Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community Holiness Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt Beulah United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Lake City, SC
- Central Holiness Church — 1.8 mi away in Lake City, SC
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 1.9 mi away in Lake City, SC
- Lake City Presbyterian Church — 2 mi away in Lake City, SC
- Netties Church — 2.2 mi away in Lake City, SC
- Life Changing Outreach Ministry — 2.2 mi away in Lake City, SC
- First Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Lake City, SC
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Mount Clair Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Lake City, SC
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Lake City, SC
- Grace Free Will Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Lake City, SC
- Scranton Baptist Church — 3 mi away
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