Rochester Friends Meeting

Rochester Friends Meeting is a church at 121 Fitzhugh St N in Rochester, NY 14614-1214. It is one of 423 churches in Rochester.

121 Fitzhugh St N, Rochester, NY, 14614-1214

Phone: +15853257260 · Website: https://www.rochesterquakers.org/

Shares a ministry location with Downtown United Presbyterian Church.

Rochester Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 22 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across New York — 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 Rochester Friends Meeting

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 26.7%
  • Social Isolation: 37.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.5% (15.0–37.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
  • Unemployment: 10.2% (3.8–16.8%)
  • Obesity: 36.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

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