Carthage Friends Meeting
Carthage Friends Meeting is a Quaker church in Carthage, IN 46115. It is one of 7 churches in Carthage, and one of 3 Quaker congregations in the city.
Carthage, IN, 46115Carthage Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 25 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Indiana — 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 Carthage Friends Meeting
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of 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: 40.0%
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (10.6–22.8%)
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (3.0–9.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Carthage Friends Meeting
- Carthage Early Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Carthage Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beech Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
- Walnut Ridge Friends Meeting — 2.2 mi away
- Little Blue River Church of Christ — 3.8 mi away
- Charlottesville Friends — 4 mi away
- Charlottesville United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Charlottesville Worship Center — 4.3 mi away
- Saint Rose of Lima Church — 4.4 mi away in Knightstown, IN
- Hannegan Christian Church — 4.6 mi away in Rushville, IN
More Friends churches nearby
- Walnut Ridge Friends Meeting — 2.2 mi away
- Charlottesville Friends — 4 mi away
- Westland Friends Church — 5.3 mi away in Greenfield, IN
- Little Blue River Friends Church — 9.2 mi away
- Friends Church — 10.5 mi away in Shirley, IN