Friendship Church of God in Christ
Friendship Church of God in Christ is a church in Emporia, VA 23847. It is one of 71 churches in Emporia.
Emporia, VA, 23847Friendship Church of God in Christ is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 487 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Virginia — 17,437 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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The community around Friendship Church of God in Christ
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Food Insecurity: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Child Poverty: 24.9% (8.4–41.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Church of God in Christ
- St John Cogic Church — 1.3 mi away
- St. John COGIC — 1.6 mi away in Jarratt, VA
- Little Shiloh Church — 1.8 mi away
- Chapel Hill Church — 2.3 mi away in Jarratt, VA
- Lebanon Church — 2.4 mi away in Jarratt, VA
- Union Grove Church — 2.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Emporia — 2.8 mi away
- Bread Of Life — 3.4 mi away
- Church of the Holy City — 3.4 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
More Pentecostal churches nearby
- St. John COGIC — 1.6 mi away in Jarratt, VA
- White Chapel Church of God in Christ — 3.7 mi away
- Word of Life Assembly of God — 5.3 mi away
- Emporia Assembly of God Church — 5.3 mi away
- Glorious Church of God in Christ Apostolic — 5.5 mi away