Friends Church
Friends Church is a Quaker church at 116 North Downey Street in West Branch, IA 52538. It is one of 5 churches in West Branch.
We believe we must BE THE CHURCH, and in order to do that, we must protect the environment, care for the poor, reject racism, forgive often, fight for the powerless, share earthly and spiritual resources, embrace diversity, love God, and enjoy life!
West Branch Friends Church (or Meeting, as early Quakers called their gatherings) is a loving, welcoming fellowship of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers.
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116 North Downey Street, West Branch, IA, 52538Website: https://www.westbranchfriendschurch.com/
Friends Church is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Friends Church
It takes 4.3 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 live with obesity, and about a third of 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.
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Social Isolation: 30.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friends Church
- West Branch Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Bernadette Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Downey Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Springdale Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 6.5 mi away in Iowa City, IA
- Iowa City Church of Christ — 7 mi away in Iowa City, IA
- Saint Bridget Church — 7.4 mi away
- New Creations International Church — 7.5 mi away in Iowa City, IA
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 7.5 mi away in Iowa City, IA