Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a church in Dawson, GA 39842. It is one of 57 churches in Dawson.
Dawson, GA, 39842Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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
It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 33.4% (22.8–43.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Child Poverty: 30.3% (12.1–48.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (5.5–17.7%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.3–14.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Prospect Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away in Shellman, GA
- Enterprise Church — 2.9 mi away in Shellman, GA
- Rocky Bottom Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Shellman, GA
- Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Mount Temple Church — 4.6 mi away
- Graves Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away
- Rose Hill Church — 4.8 mi away
- Gaines Chapel — 5 mi away
- Bethlehem Freewill Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Shellman, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Rocky Bottom Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Shellman, GA
- Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Bethlehem Freewill Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Shellman, GA
- Friendship Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Shellman, GA