Back Creek Church
Back Creek Church is a Friends (quaker) church in Fairmount, IN 46928. It is one of 12 churches in Fairmount, and one of 2 Friends (quaker) congregations in the city.
Today, our “rebel cause” is to “Love God. Love others. Reach the lost. Make disciples.”
Back Creek would best be described as an evangelical Friends church, Christ-focused, Bible-believing and Spirit-led.
Accessible parking
Fairmount, IN, 46928Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School - Worship -
- Sunday 10:30am · School - Worship -
Phone: (765) 563-5630 · Website: https://backcreekfriends.com/
Back Creek Church is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 47 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Indiana — 536 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.
Find Back Creek Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Back Creek Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Child Poverty: 37.3% (22.0–52.6%)
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Poverty Rate: 18.2% (12.3–24.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Back Creek Church
- Fairmount Wesleyan Church — 1.8 mi away
- Fairmount Friends Church — 1.9 mi away
- Fairmount Church of God — 1.9 mi away
- Fairmount Pilgrim Holiness Church — 2 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Main Street Wesleyan Church — 2.5 mi away in Jonesboro, IN
- West View Wesleyan Church — 2.6 mi away in Jonesboro, IN
- Oak Ridge Church — 2.6 mi away
- Twin City Bible Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Marion, IN
- First Presbyterian Church — 2.6 mi away in Jonesboro, IN
More Friends churches nearby
- Fairmount Friends Church — 1.9 mi away
- Bethel Friends Church — 3.3 mi away in Jonesboro, IN
- Maple Run Church — 6.8 mi away in Marion, IN
- Upland Friends Church — 8.1 mi away in Upland, IN
- Amboy Friends Church — 18.4 mi away in Amboy, IN