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Description And Objective Of Friendship Baptist Church

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Product Description/Objective Friendship Missionary Baptist Church seeks to connect people who are seeking or looking for deep moral truths and values based in love, selflessness and service to others with the Life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Friendship Baptist Church, founded in 1976, by a small contingency of disgruntled members of a local church. The group separated from the offending church and elected their first leader. A demographic profile of the group is African American (five women and four men), median to poverty level income and vocational classification and little or no formal education. The demographic numbers as to population of target location show a large segment of Hispanic and Asian Americans. The desired new organization would pursue a purely religious direction in services and missional objectives within the target community. Friendship’s former leader and the style utilized in leadership was effective for a dispensation of time, but was not conducive to lasting and repeatable gains or development. The leader became the sole voice of direction, vision and mission. The leader, furthermore, was typically seen as above questioning. This led to disconnection and dissention within the organization and a departure of members as well. The following is a chart of the membership growth and decline over the life of the organization. ADD History, Pastors to date, location of church, age of facility, current membership 40 members representing 17 households,

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