Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in La Fayette, AL 36862. It is one of 3 churches in La Fayette.
La Fayette, AL, 36862Friendship 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
It takes 4.2 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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.
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Diabetes: 22.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (2.4–19.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.1% (13.5–26.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (6.9–15.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
La Fayette city is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 999 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- LaFayette First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away in LaFayette, AL
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Powell Chapel United Methodist Church, LaFayette, Alabama — 0.8 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Powells African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- New Mount Sellers Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Lafayette Heights Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Chosen Generation Outreach — 1.9 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Lafayette, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Lafayette Heights Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Jackson Memorial Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Mount Pisgah Church — 3.3 mi away in Lafayette, AL
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