Friendship Church

The community around Friendship Church

It takes 7.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Obesity: 37.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
• Depression: 25.6%
• Child Poverty: 22.0% (6.1–38.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.2%
• Poverty Rate: 18.1% (9.9–26.3%)
• Diabetes: 14.6%
• Unemployment: 7.2% (3.1–11.3%)

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

Churches near Friendship Church

• Fairs Chapel Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 3.9 mi away
• Pilot Prairie Presbyterian Church — 4.9 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away
• Mount Moriah Church — 5.6 mi away
• Parks Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
• Parks Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away
• Keener Church — 6.2 mi away
• Harmony Freewill Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
• Birdsview United Methodist Church — 7.3 mi away