York Friends Meeting

York Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 135 West Philadelphia Street in York, PA 17401. It is one of 193 churches in York.

135 West Philadelphia Street, York, PA, 17401

Service times

  • Sunday 11am

Phone: (717) 814-8534 · Website: https://www.yorkquakermeeting.org/

York 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 York Friends Meeting

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 100.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 31.6% (18.4–44.9%)
  • Obesity: 43.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
  • Depression: 24.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
  • Diabetes: 14.7%
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (1.3–11.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

York city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 1,658 residents.

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