Friendship Church

The community around Friendship Church

It takes 5.0 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 18.3%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
• Food Insecurity: 24.2%
• Obesity: 38.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (6.7–16.8%)
• Unemployment: 6.2% (1.4–11.2%)

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

Churches near Friendship Church

• Midway Church — 0.5 mi away
• Lodabar Church — 0.6 mi away
• Cypress Fork Church — 2.7 mi away in Alcolu, SC
• Saint Michaels Church — 2.8 mi away
• Howard Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• Union Church — 3.8 mi away
• Gamble Chapel — 3.9 mi away
• St John Ame Church — 4.1 mi away in Kingstree, SC
• Saint Johns Church — 4.1 mi away in Kingstree, SC
• Saint Lukes Church — 5.3 mi away in Greeleyville, SC