Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44310. It is one of 384 churches in Akron, and one of 62 Baptist congregations in the city.
Greater Friendship Baptist Church has welcomed all individuals seeking God’s love, and keep our doors open to every soul seeking to welcome Jesus into their hearts for 101 years.
Akron, OH, 44310Service times
- Tuesday 10am · - a -
- Tuesday 2pm · - a -
- Wednesday 10am
Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,336 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,352 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 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Poverty Rate: 31.5% (20.4–42.6%)
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (5.7–18.8%)
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5% (9.4–27.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Forest Hill Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- FIVE39 Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church 539 — 0.6 mi away
- Spirit Of Joy Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Calvary Church of the Deaf — 1 mi away
- Open Door Assembly of God — 1 mi away
- Blessed Trinity — 1 mi away
- Christ the King Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethel Temple Assembly of God Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Faith Missionary Baptist — 1.2 mi away
- McNaughton Street Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Elizabeth Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Akron Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away