Friendly Temple Baptist Church
Friendly Temple Baptist Church is a church at 308 Lyndsey Ln in Shannon, NC 28386-9003. It is one of 3 churches in Shannon.
308 Lyndsey Ln, Shannon, NC, 28386-9003Phone: +19108432322 · Website: http://www.ftmbc.org
Friendly Temple 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 Friendly Temple Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 60.6%
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Poverty Rate: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (11.7–20.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (0.6–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendly Temple Baptist Church
- Jackson Grove Church — 0.5 mi away in Rennert, NC
- Saint Matthews Church — 0.7 mi away in Rennert, NC
- Saint Matthew Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Rennert, NC
- Open Arms Assembly of God — 0.9 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 2.3 mi away in Rennert, NC
- Prospect Church — 2.8 mi away in Rennert, NC
- Saint Johns Church — 3.1 mi away in Rennert, NC
- Mount Tabor Church — 3.3 mi away in Red Springs, NC
- Galilee Church — 3.4 mi away in Red Springs, NC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Matthew Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Rennert, NC
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Rex, NC
- First Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Red Springs, NC
- Lumber Bridge Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Lumber Bridge, NC
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in St Pauls, NC