Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a church at 246 Baker Lane in Bakersville, NC 28705. It is one of 44 churches in Bakersville.
246 Baker Lane, Bakersville, NC, 28705Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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.
- Unemployment: 9.3% (3.4–15.2%)
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Social Isolation: 30.6%
- Depression: 26.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Bakersville United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mine Creek Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- The Greater Remnant Church — 1.2 mi away
- Vians Valley Presbyterian Church — 1.2 mi away
- Cub Creek Church — 1.2 mi away
- White Oak Church — 1.8 mi away
- Roan Mountain Church — 2.1 mi away
- Fork Mountain Church — 2.8 mi away
- Silver Chapel — 2.9 mi away
- Bethlehem Church — 2.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mine Creek Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Red Hill Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Mitchell Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Ledger Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
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