New Friendship Church

The community around New Friendship Church

It takes 7.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, 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.

• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
• Depression: 25.2%
• Child Poverty: 25.2% (10.4–40.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.7%
• Poverty Rate: 16.2% (9.6–22.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near New Friendship Church

• Shady Grove Church — 4.2 mi away in Carthage, AR
• Como Church — 5.9 mi away
• Crossroads Church — 6.2 mi away
• Lee Ridge Church — 6.4 mi away in Carthage, AR
• Marks Memorial Church of God Inchrist — 6.9 mi away in Carthage, AR
• Lee Ridge Church — 6.9 mi away in Carthage, AR
• Pilgrims Rest Church — 7.2 mi away in Fordyce, AR
• Zion Church — 7.2 mi away
• Amy Church — 7.3 mi away in Rison, AR
• Church of Christ — 7.3 mi away in Rison, AR