Jehovah Baptist Church
Jehovah Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 803 South Harvin Street, Sumter, SC, 29150 in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 158 churches in Sumter, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
to EXALT THE SAVIOR; EVANGELIZE THE LOST; EXECUTE MISSION; EDIFY THE SAINTS.
In the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred Eleven, the first congregation of Jehovah Baptist Church met in a house on Manning Avenue in the southern part of the City of Sumter, South Carolina on the corner of South Harvin Street and Royal Avenue.
803 South Harvin Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, Sumter, SC, 29150Website: https://www.jehovahbaptist.org/
Jehovah Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at Jehovah Baptist Church
- Youth Ministry
- Child Development Center
- Family Life Education Center
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The community around Jehovah Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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: 53.2%
- Food Insecurity: 43.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 32.8% (20.7–44.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 26.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.9%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (5.7–22.0%)
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.5–17.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Sumter city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Jehovah Baptist Church
- Clinton Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Berea Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Station African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Apostolic Church - Sumter — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Real Life Worship Center, Inc. — 0.5 mi away