International Friendship Ministries
International Friendship Ministries is a church at 610 Pickens Street in Columbia, SC 29201. It is one of 423 churches in Columbia.
610 Pickens Street, Columbia, SC, 29201Find International Friendship Ministries on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around International Friendship Ministries
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 100.0%
- Poverty Rate: 46.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Depression: 31.2%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (3.2–13.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.8% (15.1–25.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbia city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 960 residents.
Churches near International Friendship Ministries
- Methodist Student Network - Columbia Wesley — 0.1 mi away
- St. Thomas More Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- UKirk Presbyterian Student Center — 0.2 mi away
- St. James A.M.E. Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Theodore's Anglican Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Columbia Evangelical Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Greene Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Cathedral — 0.6 mi away
- Shandon College Ministry — 0.6 mi away