Friendship Baptist Church

Friendship Baptist Church is a church at 2400 Mortensen Rd Ste 103 in Ames, IA 50014-7831. It is one of 61 churches in Ames.

2400 Mortensen Rd Ste 103, Ames, IA, 50014-7831

Phone: 15152924539 · Website: http://fbc-ames.org/

Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 41.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 29.3% (22.9–43.9%)
  • Unemployment: 8.5% (0.4–17.5%)
  • Depression: 24.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 15.1% (11.0–19.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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