Friends Meeting Church
Friends Meeting Church is a church in MA 01054.
MA, 01054Friends Meeting Church is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 15 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Massachusetts — 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 Friends Meeting Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Poverty Rate: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (3.5–10.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friends Meeting Church
- First Congregational Church of Leverett — 1.3 mi away in Leverett, MA
- Maple Ridge Church — 2 mi away in Sunderland, MA
- Shri Ram Chandra Mission — 2 mi away in Sunderland, MA
- North Congregational Church — 2 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- First Congregational Church — 2.8 mi away in Sunderland, MA
- Amherst Zion Church of The Nazarene — 3.2 mi away in Amherst, MA
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 3.9 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- North Leverett Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Moores Corner Church — 4.1 mi away
- Holy Family Roman Catholic Church — 4.2 mi away in South Deerfield, MA
More Friends churches nearby
- Northampton Friends Meeting — 10.9 mi away in Northampton, MA