Reading Quaker Meeting
Reading Quaker Meeting is a church at 6th Street, Reading, PA, 19601 in Reading, PA 19601-3502. It is one of 144 churches in Reading.
6th Street, Reading, PA, 19601, Reading, PA, 19601-3502Phone: (610) 372-5345 · Website: https://www.readingfriendsmeeting.org/
Shares a ministry location with Trinity Lutheran Church.
Reading Quaker 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 Reading Quaker Meeting
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Child Poverty: 52.2% (33.0–71.4%)
- Obesity: 47.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.7%
- Poverty Rate: 36.7% (26.2–47.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (4.6–21.4%)
- Depression: 23.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Reading Quaker Meeting
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- First Reformed Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hope of the Nations Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emanuel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Charis Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hopewell Mennonite Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rehoboth Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Temple of Prayer II — 0.2 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Exeter Quaker Meeting — 7.7 mi away in Douglassville, PA
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