Greater Friendship A.M.E. Church

The community around Greater Friendship A.M.E. Church

It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
• Diabetes: 20.8%
• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Poverty Rate: 24.1% (14.8–33.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

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

Churches near Greater Friendship A.M.E. Church

• Pentecostal Gospel Church — 1.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Shorterville Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Old Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away
• Poplar Springs Church — 1.8 mi away
• Fort Gaines United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
• Fort Gaines Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
• Fort Gaines Presbyterian Church — 3.3 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
• Springfield Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
• Old Salem Church — 4.1 mi away