First Friends Church
First Friends Church is a Friends (quaker) church at 1028 Jennings Ave in Salem, OH 44460. It is one of 32 churches in Salem.
Our Mission Statement can be expressed with three simple words: Gather, Grow, Go.
First Friends Church has a long history in the Salem area which began during the summer of 1804 with the first public worship meeting, held in the cabin of Samuel Davis.
1028 Jennings Ave, Salem, OH, 44460Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (330) 332-0001 · Website: http://www.salemfirstfriends.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 — 535 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 First Friends Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.1% (10.0–28.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.5%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.9–10.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Salem city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 412 residents.
Churches near First Friends Church
- Salem Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Salem Bible Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Twin Pines Apostolic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Believers Christian Fellowship Church — 0.8 mi away
- Tri-County Church Of God — 0.8 mi away
- Hope Christian Fellowship - Salem — 0.9 mi away
- Crossroad Ministries — 0.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Friends Church — 4.9 mi away in Damascus, OH
- East Goshen Friends Church — 6.1 mi away in Beloit, OH
- Trinity Friends Church-Lisbon — 9.9 mi away in Lisbon, OH
- Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ — 12.5 mi away in Alliance, OH
- Alliance Friends Church — 13.8 mi away in Alliance, OH