Greater Friendship Baptist Church

Greater Friendship Baptist Church is a church at 111 Harvard St in Boston, MA 02124-1805. It is one of 363 churches in Boston.

111 Harvard St, Boston, MA, 02124-1805

Phone: +16178252638 · Website: http://www.gfmbc-bos.org

Greater Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 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 Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.

  • Social Isolation: 43.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 36.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
  • Transportation Barriers: 20.1%
  • Unemployment: 10.8% (6.0–15.7%)
  • Child Poverty: 26.6% (11.8–41.5%)
  • Poverty Rate: 21.0% (11.7–30.3%)
  • Diabetes: 14.7%

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

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