Athens Friends Meeting

Athens Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 22 Birge Drive in Chauncey, OH 45719. It is one of 4 churches in Chauncey.

22 Birge Drive, Chauncey, OH, 45719

Athens Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 16 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Ohio — 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 Athens Friends Meeting

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 34.7%
  • Depression: 29.1%
  • Obesity: 37.7%
  • Child Poverty: 23.2% (9.3–37.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.2% (14.6–27.8%)
  • Food Insecurity: 15.5%
  • Diabetes: 14.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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