Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a church at 1421 SW New York Ave in Lawton, OK 73501-8017. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton.
1421 SW New York Ave, Lawton, OK, 73501-8017Phone: +15803577479 · Website: http://www.fbc-lawton.org/
Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,607 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 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 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. 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: 87.1%
- Poverty Rate: 61.6%
- Obesity: 58.4%
- Food Insecurity: 51.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.9%
- Diabetes: 27.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.6%
- Unemployment: 22.9% (15.9–29.8%)
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.1–17.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Friendship Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Powerhouse Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Holy Sanctified Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Casa De Oracion — 0.2 mi away
- Open Door Church of God-Christ — 0.2 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rose Hill Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Elmo Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away