Friends Church
Friends Church is a Quaker church in Shirley, IN 47384. It is one of 5 churches in Shirley.
Shirley, IN, 47384Friends 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 Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 31.9%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friends Church
- Shirley United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shirley Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Fellowship — 1.8 mi away in Knightstown, IN
- Wilkinson Church of Christ — 2 mi away in Wilkinson, IN
- Harlan Church — 2.8 mi away
- Kennard Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Zion Chapel — 4.3 mi away
- Nameless Creek Church — 5.2 mi away in Greenfield, IN
- Maple Grove Church — 5.3 mi away
- Center Chapel — 5.7 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Charlottesville Friends — 7.3 mi away in Carthage, IN
- Carthage Friends Meeting — 10.5 mi away in Carthage, IN
- Walnut Ridge Friends Meeting — 11.2 mi away in Carthage, IN
- Westland Friends Church — 11.2 mi away in Greenfield, IN
- Upper Fall Creek Church of the Brethren — 12.4 mi away in Middletown, IN