First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 158 churches in Sumter, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sumter, SC, 29150Website: https://www.fbmcsumter.org/about
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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