Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 4756 Melville Ave in East Chicago, IN 46312-3554. It is one of 89 churches in East Chicago, and one of 3 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1906 · Ramp access · Part of National Baptist Convention
4756 Melville Ave, East Chicago, IN, 46312-3554Service times
- Sunday 10:15am · Worship
Phone: +12193971107 · Website: https://fmbcenterprise.wordpress.com/our-story/
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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 Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.2%
- Food Insecurity: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Child Poverty: 32.7% (16.2–49.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (11.5–30.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
- Holy Trinity Hungarian Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- East Chicago Bethel Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Works Deliverance Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Harbor Lighthouse Assembly of God — 0.1 mi away
- Meek Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. John A.M.E. Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan C.M.E. Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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