Friendship Baptist Church

Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Laurel, MS 39440. It is one of 144 churches in Laurel, and one of 38 Baptist congregations in the city.

Laurel, MS, 39440

Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 27.3%
  • Diabetes: 18.1%
  • Obesity: 44.7%
  • Social Isolation: 38.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.7% (13.9–39.5%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (7.2–23.2%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%

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

Laurel city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 217 residents.

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