Rahway and Plainfield Friends Meeting
Rahway and Plainfield Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 225 Watchung Avenue in Plainfield, NJ 07060. It is one of 79 churches in Plainfield.
225 Watchung Avenue, Plainfield, NJ, 07060Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 9am
- Friday 9am
- Saturday 11am
Website: https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/rahway-and-plainfield-friends-meeting
Rahway and Plainfield Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 19 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across New Jersey — 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 Rahway and Plainfield Friends Meeting
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,500 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.
- Food Insecurity: 45.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 39.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (2.1–25.7%)
- Child Poverty: 36.0% (17.9–54.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (13.5–35.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 22.0%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Plainfield city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 2,470 residents.
Churches near Rahway and Plainfield Friends Meeting
- Iglesia Presbiteriana Nuevas Fronteras — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Ground Outreach Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Ministerio Vision De Dios — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ministerio Palabras con Proposito — 0.2 mi away
- Centro Cristiano Casa De Gloria — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fountain of Praise Ministries of NJ — 0.3 mi away
- Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
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