Friendship Church
Friendship Church is a Global Methodist church at 16479 Lucas Ferry Rd in Athens, AL 35611-2275. It is one of 146 churches in Athens.
Welcome to Friendship, where our mission is to Love God, Love Others, and Serve.
16479 Lucas Ferry Rd, Athens, AL, 35611-2275Phone: (256) 232-4906 · Website: https://www.friendshipchurchal.org/
Friendship Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
Ministries at Friendship Church
- Life Groups
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The community around Friendship Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (16.6–33.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (3.4–16.6%)
- Depression: 23.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (8.1–21.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Church
- Berea Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Athens Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ Westview — 0.6 mi away
- The Life Church of Athens — 0.7 mi away
- First Church — 0.7 mi away
- West Hobbs Street Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- FreshWind Christian Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- Word Of Faith MB Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Village View United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Athens First Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Tanner Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Cross Key United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away in Elkmont, AL