Oxford Friends Meeting
Oxford Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 260 South 3rd Street in Oxford, PA 19363. It is one of 22 churches in Oxford, and one of 2 Quaker congregations in the city.
Our form of worship is the extension of our belief that the Divine Spirit is accessible to each individual with no need for the intercession of priest or minister.
Oxford Friends Meeting is meeting in person. We practice social distancing and advise the use of face masks.
260 South 3rd Street, Oxford, PA, 19363Phone: (484) 758-0750 · Website: https://oxfordfriends.org/
Oxford 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 — 536 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 Oxford Friends Meeting
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. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (10.4–35.4%)
- Obesity: 36.3%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (3.1–22.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Oxford borough is served by 2 churches — about one congregation for every 2,862 residents.
Churches near Oxford Friends Meeting
- Oxford Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Community Bible Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Oxford Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Oxford — 0.5 mi away
- Apostolic Church of Oxford — 0.5 mi away
- Community of Love Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pentecostal Church Pena Inconmovible — 0.7 mi away
- Allen AME Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Christopher's Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Little Elk Friends Meeting — 3.5 mi away
- Penns Grove Friends Meeting — 4.4 mi away in Lincoln University, PA
- Brick Meeting House — 5.5 mi away in Rising Sun, MD
- New West Grove Friends Meeting — 7.9 mi away in West Grove, PA
- West Grove Friends Meeting — 8.9 mi away in West Grove, PA
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