Friendship Baptist Church

The community around Friendship Baptist 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. Nearly half 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

• Obesity: 47.1%
• Social Isolation: 41.1%
• Food Insecurity: 36.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
• Poverty Rate: 32.5% (20.0–44.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 27.7%
• Diabetes: 21.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.5% (11.1–27.8%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
• Unemployment: 8.5% (1.7–15.4%)
• Child Poverty: 26.8% (11.3–42.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.

Churches near Friendship Baptist Church

• Mount Olive Chapel Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
• Church of Christ Written In Heaven — 0.2 mi away
• Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
• King Solomon Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
• Community Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
• Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
• Antioch Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Light Of The World Ministries — 0.5 mi away
• Zion Rest Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away