First Baptist Church St Matthews
First Baptist Church St Matthews is a Baptist church at 1410 Bridge St in St Matthews, SC 29135-1391. It is one of 42 churches in St Matthews, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
The First Baptist Church of St. Matthews is no exception to the historical process.
Serving since 1875
1410 Bridge St, St Matthews, SC, 29135-1391Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Phone: +18038742703 · Website: https://fbcstmatthews.org/
First Baptist Church St Matthews 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 First Baptist Church St Matthews
It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 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.
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 32.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (3.6–19.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church St Matthews
- First Church of God — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Matthews Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Paul United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away in Saint Matthews, SC
- Word of Faith — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.8 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away in Saint Matthews, SC
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Congaree Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Calhoun Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away
- Union Chapel Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Orangeburg, SC
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