Friendship Church
Friendship Church is a Baptist church at 480 Arch Street in Athens, GA 30601. It is one of 130 churches in Athens, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
480 Arch Street, Athens, GA, 30601Phone: (202) 396-7731 · Website: https://www.efbchurch.org/
Friendship Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,418 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 Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live 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.
- Child Poverty: 69.4% (51.3–87.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 47.5% (35.5–59.5%)
- Social Isolation: 43.1%
- Food Insecurity: 38.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (7.0–21.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 1,398 residents.
Churches near Friendship Church
- The Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Saint Marks Church — 0.4 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Athens Mt Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church East — 0.4 mi away
- Living Water Christian Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Johnson Drive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Faith Tabernacle Church — 0.7 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Full Gospel Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
- Living Hope Church — 0.7 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Dorsey Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Baptist Collegiate Ministries — 1.4 mi away
- Springfield Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA