First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 45amChurch Location219 South Washington Street in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 206 churches in Sumter, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
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45amChurch Location219 South Washington Street, Sumter, SC, 29150Service times
Sunday School: 10:00am (as listed)
Phone: (803) 775-1462 · Website: https://www.fbmcsumter.org/about
First Baptist Church 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Support for Local Schools
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 52.4%
- Food Insecurity: 41.9%
- Poverty Rate: 36.7% (25.9–47.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.8%
- Diabetes: 27.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.9%
- Unemployment: 16.7% (7.8–25.5%)
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (5.5–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Sumter city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Birth Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.3 mi away
- Westend Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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