First Friends Meeting
First Friends Meeting is a Friends (Quaker) church at 2100 West Friendly Avenue in Greensboro, NC 27403. It is one of 483 churches in Greensboro, and one of 6 Friends (Quaker) congregations in the city.
As Quakers, we practice listening for Spirit in all that we do, whether that’s the big things, such as decisions about choosing a spouse or caring for our families or the smaller things, like decisions we make for the meeting.
2100 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC, 27403Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: +1-336-299-8869 · Website: https://www.friendlyquakers.org/
First Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 24 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across North Carolina — 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 First Friends Meeting
- Caring Friends
- Small Repairs Working Group
- Hospitality
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Upcoming events at First Friends Meeting
- Sun, Aug 9 · 9 AM: Unprogrammed Worship(Zoom) — Zoom
- Sun, Aug 9 · 9:45 AM: Choir Rehearsal — Meeting Room
- Sun, Aug 9 · 10 AM: Adult Sunday School — Room 208
- Sun, Aug 9 · 10 AM: United Society of Friends Women (Fellowship Hall) — Gathering Room
- Sun, Aug 9 · 11 AM: FF Worship Meetingroom — FF Meetingroom
From First Friends Meeting's public calendar (https://www.friendlyquakers.org/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around First Friends Meeting
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 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: 30.6%
- Depression: 25.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Greensboro city is served by 109 churches — about one congregation for every 2,479 residents.
Churches near First Friends Meeting
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.5 mi away
- Peace United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First Moravian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hope Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- Ebenezer Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- New Garden Friends Meeting — 3.9 mi away
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