Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1108 West 2nd Street in Merced, CA 95341. It is one of 117 churches in Merced, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
1108 West 2nd Street, Merced, CA, 95341Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School convenes
Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Universal.
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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Latest from Friendship Baptist Church Merced's YouTube channel: Sunday, August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Friendship Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 51.5%
- Child Poverty: 50.3% (33.8–66.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (27.7–48.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 37.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 19.6% (10.1–29.1%)
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Merced city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 1,054 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Iglesia Universal — 0 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church Of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Church Of The Living God — 0.5 mi away
- Merced Bethel Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Times Of Refreshing — 0.5 mi away
- Apostolic Tabernacle UPC of Merced - West Campus — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Matthew Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away