Oread Friends Meeting

Oread Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 1146 Oregon Street in Lawrence, KS 66044. It is one of 106 churches in Lawrence.

1146 Oregon Street, Lawrence, KS, 66044

Oread Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 4 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Kansas — 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 Oread 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Obesity: 36.3%
  • Social Isolation: 29.9%
  • Depression: 26.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.6% (13.5–29.7%)
  • Food Insecurity: 16.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (9.1–17.4%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Lawrence city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 1,175 residents.

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