Friendship Christian Church, Gastonia, NC

Friendship Christian Church, Gastonia, NC is a Baptist church at 221 W Bradley St in Gastonia, NC 28052-2304. It is one of 209 churches in Gastonia, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.

Serving since 2024

221 W Bradley St, Gastonia, NC, 28052-2304

Phone: (704) 865-9016 · Website: https://www.friendshipgastonia.org/

Friendship Christian Church, Gastonia, NC is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,419 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 Christian Church, Gastonia, NC

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 33.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
  • Unemployment: 13.1% (5.2–21.6%)
  • Obesity: 45.0%
  • Social Isolation: 38.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.9% (13.5–32.3%)
  • Diabetes: 17.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (6.7–28.1%)
  • Depression: 23.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%

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

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