Jerusalem Baptist Church

Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in St Matthews, SC 29135. It is one of 42 churches in St Matthews, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

St Matthews, SC, 29135

Jerusalem 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 Jerusalem Baptist Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

  • Diabetes: 18.7%
  • Obesity: 41.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.0%
  • Unemployment: 8.8% (2.7–14.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 31.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.7% (8.3–25.0%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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