West Branch Friends Meeting
West Branch Friends Meeting is a Quaker church in Grampian, PA 16838. It is one of 4 churches in Grampian.
Grampian, PA, 16838West Branch Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 71 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 West Branch Friends Meeting
It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Depression: 23.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (3.7–9.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near West Branch Friends Meeting
- Grampian St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church | Grampian — 1.2 mi away
- TCC — 1.2 mi away
- Faith Bible Church — 2.7 mi away in Curwensville, PA
- Curwensville Christian Church — 4.3 mi away in Curwensville, PA
- Grace Lutheran Church — 4.3 mi away in Curwensville, PA
- St Timothy's Roman Catholic — 4.3 mi away in Curwensville, PA
- Curwensville Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Curwensville, PA
- Susquehanna Community Church — 4.6 mi away in Curwensville, PA
- Curwensville Presbyterian Church — 4.6 mi away in Curwensville, PA