Friendship Church

The community around Friendship Church

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 53.5%
• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Obesity: 41.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
• Depression: 27.3%
• Food Insecurity: 23.5%
• Poverty Rate: 22.6% (12.2–33.0%)
• Unemployment: 9.3% (2.3–16.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Friendship Church

• Pentecostal Church — 0.7 mi away
• West New Home Church — 1.8 mi away
• Midway Church — 2 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 3.4 mi away in Epps, LA
• Trails End Church — 3.4 mi away in Oak Ridge, LA
• Faith Missionary Church — 3.5 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 3.8 mi away
• Morning Star Church — 3.9 mi away
• Alexander Church — 4.4 mi away in Oak Ridge, LA
• Hegwood Church — 4.6 mi away in Epps, LA