Alva Friends Church

Alva Friends Church is a Friends church in Alva, OK 73717. It is one of 22 churches in Alva.

Alva, OK, 73717

Website: https://fwccamericas.org/visitation/find-friends.aspx?n=Alva+Friends+Church

Alva Friends Church is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 2 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Oklahoma — 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 Alva Friends Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Social Isolation: 35.6%
  • Depression: 28.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.6% (16.1–33.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 21.1%
  • Obesity: 38.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
  • Unemployment: 7.4% (0.6–14.1%)

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

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