Portland Friends Monthy Meeting

Portland Friends Monthy Meeting is a Society Of Friends church at 1837 Forest Avenue in Portland, ME 04103. It is one of 80 churches in Portland.

1837 Forest Avenue, Portland, ME, 04103

Phone: (207) 200-6544 · Website: https://www.portlandfriendsmeeting.org/

Portland Friends Monthy Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 8 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Maine — 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.

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The community around Portland Friends Monthy Meeting

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 34.6%
  • Child Poverty: 33.1% (15.4–50.9%)
  • Depression: 27.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%

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

Portland city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 1,244 residents.

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