Worcester Friends Meeting

Worcester Friends Meeting is a Friends (Quaker) church at 901 Pleasant St in Worcester, MA 01602-1908. It is one of 202 churches in Worcester, and one of 2 Friends (Quaker) congregations in the city.

Worcester Friends Meeting is a welcoming, progressive faith community seeking to discern what the Spirit that lives in every human heart asks of us each and all.

Serving since 1848 · Ramp access

901 Pleasant St, Worcester, MA, 01602-1908

Service times

  • Saturday 5pm

Phone: +15087543887 · Website: https://www.worcesterfriendsmeeting.org/

Worcester Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 15 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Massachusetts — 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.

Ministries at Worcester Friends Meeting

  • Market Day
  • Potlucks

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The community around Worcester Friends Meeting

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 33.2%
  • Depression: 25.4%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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