Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 73 Leaman Avenue in Whitmire, SC 29178. It is one of 16 churches in Whitmire, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
73 Leaman Avenue, Whitmire, SC, 29178Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Friendship Baptist Church
It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 32.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.9% (15.4–32.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.4–16.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- First Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Heritage Wesleyan Church — 0.1 mi away
- Whitmire Pentecostal — 0.2 mi away
- Central Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Whitmire First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Whitmire United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sims Chapel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Cedar Grove AME Zion Church — 2.1 mi away
- Pine Ridge Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away