Walnut Ridge Friends Meeting
Walnut Ridge 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, 46115Website: http://www.wrfm.org/
Walnut Ridge 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 Walnut Ridge Friends Meeting
It takes 3.9 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: 30.4%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Walnut Ridge Friends Meeting
- Carthage Early Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Carthage Friends Meeting — 2.2 mi away
- Carthage Community Church — 2.7 mi away
- Beech Grove Church — 2.9 mi away
- Westland Friends Church — 3.3 mi away in Greenfield, IN
- Charlottesville Friends — 4 mi away
- Charlottesville United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Charlottesville Worship Center — 4.3 mi away
- John T. Hatfield Cleveland Holiness Camp — 4.7 mi away
- Gwynneville Christian Church — 5 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Carthage Friends Meeting — 2.2 mi away
- Westland Friends Church — 3.3 mi away in Greenfield, IN
- Charlottesville Friends — 4 mi away
- Little Blue River Friends Church — 8.2 mi away
- Friends Church — 11.2 mi away in Shirley, IN