Quaker Church
Quaker Church is a church in Galax, VA 24333. It is one of 63 churches in Galax.
Galax, VA, 24333Quaker Church is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 14 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Virginia — 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 Quaker Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.5% (14.5–30.4%)
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Child Poverty: 27.8% (12.7–43.2%)
- Depression: 26.1%
- Food Insecurity: 19.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Quaker Church
- Mount Sinai Church — 0.2 mi away
- Glenwood Church — 0.9 mi away
- Coal Creek Church — 1 mi away
- Galax Church of God of Prophecy — 1.1 mi away
- Bishops Chapel — 1.6 mi away
- Mount Ararat Church — 1.8 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Calvary Church — 1.9 mi away
- Camp Zion Church — 2.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Community Church — 2.5 mi away