Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 239 West Columbus Street in Whiteville, NC 28472. It is one of 73 churches in Whiteville.
239 West Columbus Street, Whiteville, NC, 28472Friendship 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.4%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (10.1–25.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.1–19.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- St. Mark AME Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- St James Ame Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Whiteville First P H — 0.4 mi away
- Victory in Jesus Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Springhill Missionary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Jerusalem Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Chadbourn, NC
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