Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Venice, IL 62060. It is one of 9 churches in Venice.
Venice, IL, 62060Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 51.7%
- Child Poverty: 42.2% (24.1–60.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Unemployment: 21.8% (10.8–32.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (17.1–41.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Venice city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 293 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Northend Church of God — 0 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel A.M.E. Church - Madison, Illinois — 0.1 mi away in Madison, IL
- First Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Southern Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Madison, IL
- Rivers of Waters Worship Center — 0.3 mi away in Madison, IL
- Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Madison, IL
- West Madison Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away in Madison, IL
- Covenant Christian Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- New Salem of Venice — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Southern Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Madison, IL
- Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Madison, IL
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Madison, IL
- Genesis Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Granite City, IL
- Temple Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Madison, IL