First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest
First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest is a Baptist church at 20 McElhaney Road in Travelers Rest, SC 29690. It is one of 58 churches in Travelers Rest, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
20 McElhaney Road, Travelers Rest, SC, 29690First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest 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 of Travelers Rest
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 a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (12.9–37.1%)
- Social Isolation: 29.6%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
- Food Insecurity: 18.2%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.1–11.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Travelers Rest city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 768 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest
- Travelers Rest United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Athens Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trailside Church — 0.5 mi away
- Travelers Rest Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Rizen Church — 0.6 mi away
- Resurrection Power Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Greenville — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Renfrew Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Reedy River Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Greenville, SC
- Hilltop Free Will Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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