Friends Memorial Church
Friends Memorial Church is a Quaker church in Muncie, IN 47305. It is one of 148 churches in Muncie.
Muncie, IN, 47305Website: https://munciefriendschurch.org/
Friends Memorial Church 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 Friends Memorial Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 47.1%
- Depression: 33.8%
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (5.1–24.1%)
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Muncie city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near Friends Memorial Church
- High Street United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Grace Church — 0.2 mi away
- City Hope Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- St Barnabas of Indiana Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Jar Impact Student Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Commonway — 0.3 mi away
- The Jar Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jar Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Upper Fall Creek Church of the Brethren — 10.9 mi away in Middletown, IN
- Mooreland Friends Church — 15.3 mi away in Mooreland, IN