Friendship Church

The community around Friendship Church

It takes 2.8 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.1%
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
• Food Insecurity: 22.1%
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Depression: 25.5%
• Poverty Rate: 20.4% (11.7–29.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

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

Churches near Friendship Church

• Pleasant Grove Church — 0.5 mi away
• Richardson Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Center Road Church — 0.9 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 1.1 mi away
• Zion Hill Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Baker's Creek AME Zion Church — 2.2 mi away in Elizabethtown, NC
• Oak Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
• Bakers Creek Church — 2.3 mi away in Elizabethtown, NC
• Shiloh Church — 2.3 mi away in Elizabethtown, NC
• McCord Church — 2.6 mi away in Elizabethtown, NC