West Side Baptist Church
West Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church in West Columbia, SC 29169. It is one of 83 churches in West Columbia, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to be a place where your faith can begin and grow.
West Side Baptist Church is a warm and welcoming community located in West Columbia, South Carolina.
West Columbia, SC, 29169Phone: (803) 796-2027 · Website: http://www.westsidewc.org/
West Side 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 — 71,352 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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Latest from WestSide-WC's YouTube channel: Gathering Time - November 1st, 2026 (all videos).
The community around West Side Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 21.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (10.5–20.6%)
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (11.9–22.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
West Columbia city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 847 residents.
Churches near West Side Baptist Church
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Foundation of Faith — 0.7 mi away in Cayce, SC
- Heritage Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Biblical House of God — 0.9 mi away in Cayce, SC
- Trinity Baptist Church Cayce — 0.9 mi away in Cayce, SC
- Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Springdale, SC
- Calvary Holiness Church of God — 1 mi away in Cayce, SC
- La Luz Del Mundo — 1 mi away
- LLDM Columbia, South Carolina — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church Cayce — 0.9 mi away in Cayce, SC
- Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Springdale, SC
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Cayce, SC
- Green Hill Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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