Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 244 S Sage St, Toccoa, GA, 30577 in Toccoa, GA 30577. It is one of 38 churches in Toccoa, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Friendship Baptist Church was founded in 1887 as the first predominantly Black Baptist Church in Toccoa, GA.
Serving since 1887
244 S Sage St, Toccoa, GA, 30577, Toccoa, GA, 30577Website: https://friendshiptoccoa.org/
Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Friendship Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Poverty Rate: 19.2% (12.2–26.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (7.0–17.2%)
- Unemployment: 7.7% (3.1–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Toccoa Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Hill Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Toccoa Seventh-Day Adventist — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church, Toccoa — 0.5 mi away
- Freewill Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Remnant Toccoa — 0.6 mi away