First Friends Meeting

First Friends Meeting is a Friends (quaker) church at 2010 Chester Blvd in Richmond, IN 47374. It is one of 79 churches in Richmond.

Richmond First Friends is Christ-centered as a meeting, but open to the religious experiences and convictions of all individuals, believing that direct knowledge of God is available to all people everywhere, whatever their religious or cultural background.

2010 Chester Blvd, Richmond, IN, 47374

Phone: (765) 962-7666 · Website: http://www.newassociationoffriends.org/congregations/richmond-friends-meeting-4swl8

First Friends Meeting 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.

Ministries at First Friends Meeting

  • Sunday School

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The community around First Friends Meeting

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 46.6% (31.4–61.9%)
  • Social Isolation: 32.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.6% (16.4–32.9%)
  • Diabetes: 16.6%
  • Obesity: 37.3%
  • Depression: 26.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 16.9%
  • Unemployment: 7.7% (3.3–12.1%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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