Friendship Baptist Church

Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8085 Gulf Highway, Lake Charles, LA, 70607-0659 in Lake Charles, LA 70607. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.

Friendship Baptist Church We are a Fundamental, Independent, Bible Believing, Hell Hating Baptist Church! We use only the King James Version (KJV) of God's Holy Word which we believe to be the most complete and inspired Holy Word of God.

Serving since 1913

8085 Gulf Highway, Lake Charles, LA, 70607-0659, Lake Charles, LA, 70607

Service times

  • Sunday 10:45am · Morning Worship

Phone: (337) 477-3031

Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 42.8%
  • Social Isolation: 37.1%
  • Depression: 28.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.2% (11.1–27.2%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
  • Diabetes: 13.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
  • Unemployment: 7.1% (1.2–13.0%)

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

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