Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a church at 865 Baxter Street Southeast in Grand Rapids, MI 49506. It is one of 418 churches in Grand Rapids.
865 Baxter Street Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506Website: http://grfmbc.org
Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,819 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 71,417 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 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 33.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Child Poverty: 37.7% (23.4–52.8%)
- Depression: 28.6%
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (18.4–35.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.9–13.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Eastern Ave Christian — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Urban Family Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Sherman Street Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Eastern Avenue Church Of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Breakthrough Believers — 0.2 mi away
- Wealthy Street Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- 811 Wealthy St SE — 0.2 mi away
- St Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away