Ward Baptist Church
Ward Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 125 Ward Ave in Ward, SC 29166. It is one of 7 churches in Ward.
125 Ward Ave, Ward, SC, 29166Phone: (803) 765-0030
Ward 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 — 71,417 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 Ward Baptist Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of 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.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Food Insecurity: 28.8%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Child Poverty: 32.9% (16.0–49.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (18.5–33.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (8.2–18.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (3.4–9.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ward Baptist Church
- Spann Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Alford Church — 0.8 mi away
- Dry Creek Church — 1.8 mi away in Johnston, SC
- Pine Hill Church — 2.5 mi away in Johnston, SC
- Reedy Branch Church — 3.3 mi away in Johnston, SC
- Lotts Grove Church — 3.9 mi away in Johnston, SC
- Hart Spring Church — 3.9 mi away
- Johnston First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Johnston, SC
- United Church of God — 4.2 mi away in Johnston, SC
- Cook, Grady Elder — 4.2 mi away in Johnston, SC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Johnston First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Johnston, SC
- Ridge Spring Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Ridge Spring, SC
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Johnston, SC
- Richland Springs Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Johnston, SC
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