Friendship Church

The community around Friendship Church

It takes 6.8 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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: 40.2%
• Child Poverty: 39.0% (21.9–57.4%)
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
• Food Insecurity: 22.3%
• Diabetes: 16.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
• Depression: 24.1%
• Poverty Rate: 19.7% (9.9–29.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Friendship Church

• Unity United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Taylor, AR
• Sharman Church — 3.3 mi away in Taylor, AR
• Beacon Church — 3.5 mi away in Taylor, AR
• Rocky Mount Church — 3.6 mi away in Magnolia, AR
• Oak Grove Church — 4.1 mi away
• Saint Jonah Church — 4.3 mi away in Taylor, AR
• Friendship Church — 4.9 mi away in Magnolia, AR
• Mount Zion Church — 5.2 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 5.7 mi away in Magnolia, AR
• Mount Pleasant Church — 6 mi away in Magnolia, AR