Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1220 Reverend J L Mills Senior Way in Macon, GA 31201. It is one of 255 churches in Macon, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
1220 Reverend J L Mills Senior Way, Macon, GA, 31201Service times
- Sunday 10:45am–12:01pm · Worship Service to
Phone: (334) 727-3455 · Website: http://www.greaterfriendship.com/
Greater Friendship Missionary 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 Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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: 84.7%
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Social Isolation: 44.0%
- Poverty Rate: 37.3% (22.6–51.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.4%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (3.2–20.3%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (0.2–17.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Macon-Bibb County is served by 118 churches — about one congregation for every 1,326 residents.
Churches near Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
- Congregational Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Fulton Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Magnolia Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Turners Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- New Vision Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Fulton Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Magnolia Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA