Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church is a church in South Bend, IN 46619. It is one of 220 churches in South Bend.

South Bend, IN, 46619

Website: https://www.greaterfriendshipfamily.org/

Greater 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 Greater 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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: 46.7%
Food Insecurity: 40.1%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
Poverty Rate: 31.1% (19.8–42.4%)
Housing Insecurity: 29.2%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.5%
Diabetes: 20.9%
Unemployment: 20.5% (5.5–35.6%)
Child Poverty: 39.4% (22.4–56.4%)
Social Isolation: 39.2%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.9%
Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.2% (9.4–27.0%)
Depression: 25.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

South Bend city is served by 107 churches — about one congregation for every 904 residents.

Churches near Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

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Laymen Chapel C.M.E. Church — 0.1 mi away
Spiritual Israel Church — 0.1 mi away
St. Paul Gospel Mission — 0.3 mi away
New Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Saints Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
New Bethel Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
Iglesia Apostolica Roca Eterna — 0.6 mi away
The Church of Jesus Christ - South Bend, Indiana — 0.6 mi away
South Bend Hispanic Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.7 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

New Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
Fellowship Baptist Church — 1 mi away
Greater St John Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
New Testament Missionary Baptist — 1.2 mi away

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