Lao Friendship Baptist Church
Lao Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fresno, CA 93702. It is one of 559 churches in Fresno, and one of 52 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fresno, CA, 93702Lao Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 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 Lao Friendship Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,500 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.
- Food Insecurity: 50.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Child Poverty: 31.7% (12.0–51.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.8% (17.3–40.2%)
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (5.0–14.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (5.4–17.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Fresno city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 2,123 residents.
Churches near Lao Friendship Baptist Church
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- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hmong Community Alliance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ Arlington Heights — 0.3 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Asian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Harvest Christian Center Fresno — 0.5 mi away
- Cedar Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Liberty Christian Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hmong Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Olivet Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cedar Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Free Will Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away