Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ville Platte, LA 70586. It is one of 45 churches in Ville Platte, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ville Platte, LA, 70586Friendship 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
It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Food Insecurity: 21.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Child Poverty: 22.7% (8.1–37.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Pine Prairie, LA
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away in Pine Prairie, LA
- Pine Prairie Church of Christ — 1.2 mi away in Pine Prairie, LA
- Pentecost Church — 2.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Bayou Chicot Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Morning Pilgrim Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Turkey Creek, LA
- Church of Christ — 5.5 mi away
- Little Union Church — 5.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Turkey Creek, LA
- Saint James Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 8.6 mi away
- Centerville Church — 10.8 mi away
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