First Friends Church
First Friends Church is a Friends (quaker) church in Bellefontaine, OH 43311. It is one of 41 churches in Bellefontaine.
We live to glorify God together by loving Him, making disciples, and proclaiming the gospel.
Bellefontaine First Friends was planted in 1933 by the Evangelical Friends Church organization through Goshen Friends Church in Zanesfield, Ohio. We are living proof of God's love and grace. We are a small group of individuals and families who make up the Church that is built on the Rock. The Bible is our foundation and growth in knowing and loving Jesus Christ more every day.
Serving since 1933
Bellefontaine, OH, 43311Service times
- Tuesday, Thursday 9am
Phone: (330) 966-2800 · Website: https://www.firstfriends.org/
First Friends Church is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 43 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Ohio — 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.
Ministries at First Friends Church
- Youth Ministry
- Children's Ministry
- Family Ministry
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Latest from Bellefontaine First Friends's YouTube channel: Sacrifice&Offering5 (all videos).
The community around First Friends Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Food Insecurity: 19.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.6% (11.6–23.6%)
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Bellefontaine city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 1,509 residents.
Churches near First Friends Church
- Jubilee Mennonite Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bellefontaine Apostolic Temple — 0.5 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Ame Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church on Detroit — 0.7 mi away
- First Regular Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Auburn Avenue Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Urbana Friends Church — 17.4 mi away in Urbana, OH
- Byhalia Friends Church — 17.8 mi away in West Mansfield, OH
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