Friendship Baptist Church

Friendship Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 1317 Cherry St in Winston-Salem, NC 27105-5821. It is one of 393 churches in Winston-Salem, and one of 11 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.

The purpose of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church is the same as set forth in the teachings of Jesus Christ: To seek and follow Jesus Christ for those who are lost.

1317 Cherry St, Winston-Salem, NC, 27105-5821

Phone: +13367236105 · Website: https://friendshipbaptistws.org/

Friendship 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

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 77.6%
  • Obesity: 55.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 43.7% (31.0–56.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 41.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 29.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.3%
  • Diabetes: 23.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.4% (9.9–32.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 37.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
  • Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
  • Unemployment: 6.3% (0.7–12.5%)

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

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