Bethesda Baptist Church

Bethesda Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5648 Whitmire Hwy in Whitmire, SC 29178. It is one of 21 churches in Whitmire, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.

5648 Whitmire Hwy, Whitmire, SC, 29178

Phone: (803) 765-0030

Bethesda Baptist Church 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 Bethesda Baptist Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Diabetes: 18.1%
  • Obesity: 41.2%
  • Social Isolation: 32.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.7% (12.3–29.0%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.6–17.4%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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