Friendly Riverside Church

The community around Friendly Riverside Church

It takes 3.4 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 43.0%
• Child Poverty: 35.6% (18.4–52.8%)
• Social Isolation: 33.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 22.6%
• Poverty Rate: 22.5% (12.4–32.6%)
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Depression: 23.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Friendly Riverside Church

• Kemp Church — 1 mi away
• Riverside Church — 1.3 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Mount Calvary Church — 1.3 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Mt Olive AME Zion Church — 1.5 mi away
• Open Door Ministries of Elizabethtown — 1.7 mi away
• Fellowship Church — 2 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 2.4 mi away
• Whites Creek Church — 3.6 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Foundation Church — 3.8 mi away
• Pilgrim Hill Church — 3.8 mi away in Clarkton, NC