State College Friends Meeting
State College Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 611 East Prospect Avenue in State College, PA 16801. It is one of 64 churches in State College.
Our meeting originated in 1912 when some Quaker college students began meeting informally in the home of a newly-arrived local Quaker family.
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611 East Prospect Avenue, State College, PA, 16801Phone: (814) 237-7051 · Website: https://www.statecollegefriends.org/
State College 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 State College Friends Meeting
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is 2,600 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.
- Poverty Rate: 62.3%
- Depression: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
State College borough is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 2,152 residents.
Churches near State College Friends Meeting
- St Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- SCA - The Upper Room — 0.3 mi away
- Faith United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul's United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- 영광한인장로교회 — 0.5 mi away
- State College Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
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