Friendship Baptist Church

Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Riverhead, NY 11901. It is one of 39 churches in Riverhead, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.

Riverhead, NY, 11901

Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,495 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 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 about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Food Insecurity: 26.6%
  • Social Isolation: 33.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5% (11.0–26.0%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.3% (10.1–32.5%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%

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

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