Whittier Friends Meeting
Whittier Friends Meeting is a church in Springville, IA 52336. It is one of 7 churches in Springville.
Springville, IA, 52336Whittier Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 5 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Iowa — 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 Whittier Friends Meeting
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Social Isolation: 31.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Whittier Friends Meeting
- Faith Christian Fellowship — 2.6 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Springville Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Springville Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away
- Saint Isidore Catholic Church — 3.1 mi away
- Viola United Methodist Church — 4 mi away
- Prairie Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Marion, IA
- Church of God Seventh Day — 5.2 mi away in Marion, IA
- Marion Methodist — 5.3 mi away in Marion, IA
- Saint Josephs Church — 5.8 mi away in Anamosa, IA