Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 700 South Tipton Street in Hattiesburg, MS 39401. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 35 Baptist congregations in the city.
700 South Tipton Street, Hattiesburg, MS, 39401Phone: +1-601-582-7709
Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Friendship Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (10.4–40.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (0.1–19.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (3.6–22.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Hattiesburg city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 689 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- East Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bay Street Presbyterian Church (PCA) — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wayside Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Korean Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- East Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- The Church at 4Points — 0.9 mi away
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