Chester Friends Meeting
Chester Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 520 East 24th Street in Chester, PA 19013. It is one of 108 churches in Chester.
The Mission of the West Chester Bird Club is to create a community of people who are interested in observing and enjoying wild birds through educational programs, field trips, and the sharing of experiences and photographs.
520 East 24th Street, Chester, PA, 19013Service times
- Monday 7:30pm
Chester Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 74 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Chester Friends Meeting
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Unemployment: 12.4% (5.9–18.9%)
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chester city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 384 residents.
Churches near Chester Friends Meeting
- North Chester Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Katherine Drexel Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Graco C.O.G.I.C — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- The Way Thru Christ Community Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Asbury African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away in Wallingford, PA
- The Foundry Church — 0.5 mi away in Wallingford, PA
- New Destiny Christian Center — 0.6 mi away in Woodlyn, PA
More Friends churches nearby
- Swarthmore Friends Meetinghouse — 2.7 mi away in Swarthmore, PA
- Providence Friends Meeting — 3.5 mi away in Media, PA
- Chichester Society of Friends — 4.2 mi away in Boothwyn, PA
- Springfield Friends Meeting — 5.1 mi away in Springfield Township, PA
- Middletown Friends Meeting — 5.7 mi away in Lima, PA
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