New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1545 Waite Street in Gary, IN 46404. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
1545 Waite Street, Gary, IN, 46404Phone: +1 219-949-4279 · Website: http://www.newfriendshipgary.org/
New 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 New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 67.9% (50.4–85.4%)
- Obesity: 52.0%
- Food Insecurity: 41.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.8% (22.3–47.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 26.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (3.6–16.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.3–17.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
- Israel The Church Of Jesus — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Temple of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Peace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Anointed House of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- New Revelation Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Augustine's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses--Tolleston — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Philip Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Peace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Revelation Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Olive Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away