Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Asbury Park, NJ 07712. It is one of 43 churches in Asbury Park, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Asbury Park, NJ, 07712Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 706 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,418 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 28.7%
- Unemployment: 13.6% (5.5–21.8%)
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (11.2–31.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (7.0–22.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Asbury Park city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Augustine Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Asbury Park Deliverance Evangelistic Center Inc. — 0.2 mi away
- Haitian Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Vida Abundante — 0.3 mi away
- Triumphant Life — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury Evangelistic Chapel — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Temple — 0.4 mi away
- First French Speaking Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Good Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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