Gunpowder Friends Meeting House
Gunpowder Friends Meeting House is a Quaker church at 14934 Priceville Road in Sparks Glencoe, MD 21152. It is one of 8 churches in Sparks Glencoe.
Gunpowder Friends Meeting is an unprogrammed Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. We worship in silence and without ritual, liturgy, creed, sermon or prepared music.
Serving since 1739
14934 Priceville Road, Sparks Glencoe, MD, 21152Phone: (410) 472-4583 · Website: https://gunpowderfriends.org/
Gunpowder Friends Meeting House is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 10 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Maryland — 535 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 Gunpowder Friends Meeting House
- Bible Study
- Silent Retreat
- Spiritual Formation
- Silent Retreat Day
- First Day School
- Child Care
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The community around Gunpowder Friends Meeting House
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 30.1%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (0.3–12.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gunpowder Friends Meeting House
- Bosley Church — 0.5 mi away
- Stevenson AME Church — 1.2 mi away
- Stephenson Church — 1.2 mi away
- Impact Church — 1.7 mi away
- Hunt Valley Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Cockeysville, MD
- Gough Church — 2.4 mi away in Cockeysville, MD
- Catholic Community of Saint Francis Xavier — 2.4 mi away in Cockeysville, MD
- Jessops Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Immanuel Church — 2.7 mi away
- St. Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church — 2.8 mi away in Cockeysville, MD
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