Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Monroe, LA 71203. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe, and one of 56 Baptist congregations in the city.
Monroe, LA, 71203Friendship 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 more than half of the people here live 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.
- Child Poverty: 64.0% (44.7–83.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 57.2%
- Obesity: 56.6%
- Food Insecurity: 56.0%
- Social Isolation: 43.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 34.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 25.6%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.0–15.1%)
- Depression: 24.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3% (10.8–18.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Monroe city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 472 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Mt Sinai Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Powers House Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Mary Gross Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Luke Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bright Oak Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Spring Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Galilee Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- King Ollie Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mary Gross Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Spring Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tried Stone Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away