Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a church at 1229 Elm St SW in Birmingham, AL 35211-4239. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.
1229 Elm St SW, Birmingham, AL, 35211-4239Phone: +12059258147 · Website: https://www.friendshiptoday.org/
Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 50.6% (33.1–68.1%)
- Obesity: 48.5%
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 27.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.0% (18.1–40.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (9.4–23.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Vision Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jefferson Avenue Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Ministerio Pan y Fuente De Vida Eterna — 0.3 mi away
- New Zion Bible Way Church — 0.4 mi away
- Berney Points Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Lifting Christ Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Berney Points Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Berney Points Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Chuch — 0.7 mi away
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