Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gainesville, FL 32601. It is one of 303 churches in Gainesville, and one of 49 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gainesville, FL, 32601Website: http://friendshipdefuniak.com/
Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,713 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 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 Friendship Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 49.9%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4% (11.2–18.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Gainesville city is served by 120 churches — about one congregation for every 1,073 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Fourth Avenue Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Refuge Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prayers By Faith Outreach Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Visionaries Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Pleasant United Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- PowerHouse Faith & Praise Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- North Central Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Shady Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Faith Baptist Fellowship — 0.9 mi away
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