Alaska Yearly Meeting of Friends Churches

Alaska Yearly Meeting of Friends Churches is a Quaker church at 4607 E 6th Ave in Anchorage, AK 99508. It is one of 268 churches in Anchorage.

4607 E 6th Ave, Anchorage, AK, 99508

Phone: +1 907-442-3906 · Website: http://www.akyearlymeeting.org/

Shares a ministry location with Free Methodist Church.

Alaska Yearly Meeting of Friends Churches is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 8 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Alaska — 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 Alaska Yearly Meeting of Friends Churches

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 37.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (9.9–22.5%)
  • Unemployment: 8.3% (3.5–13.1%)
  • Obesity: 38.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.

Anchorage municipality is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 1,761 residents.

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