Elkland Friends Meetinghouse
Elkland Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker church in PA 17768.
PA, 17768Elkland Friends Meetinghouse is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 71 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Pennsylvania — 355 across the United States on The Church Map.
Friends were ahead of the whole church on abolition, on prison reform, and on the ministry of women, and they were ahead at real cost. Their practice of waiting on God together in silence is what the rest of the body borrows when words have run out.
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The community around Elkland Friends Meetinghouse
It takes 6.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Elkland Friends Meetinghouse
- Shunk United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Fox Twp, PA
- Lincoln Falls Wesleyan Church — 2.7 mi away in Forksville, PA
- Maple Summit Church — 3.7 mi away
- Living Hope Fellowship — 4.6 mi away in Forksville, PA
- Faith Mountain Fellowship — 4.9 mi away
- Saint Peters Church — 5.1 mi away in Forksville, PA
- Millview Wesleyan Church — 6.3 mi away in Forks Twp, PA
- Sugar Ridge Church — 8.5 mi away in New Albany, PA
- Parsons Hill Church — 8.7 mi away
- LeRoy Independent Baptist Church — 9.2 mi away in Leroy Twp, PA