South River Friends Meetinghouse

South River Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker church at 5810 Fort Avenue in Lynchburg, VA 24502. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg.

5810 Fort Avenue, Lynchburg, VA, 24502

Website: https://www.virginia.org/listings/historicsites/southrivermeetinghouse

South River Friends Meetinghouse is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 23 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Virginia — 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 South River Friends Meetinghouse

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 36.2%
  • Unemployment: 8.6% (0.0–17.7%)
  • Obesity: 37.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
  • Diabetes: 14.3%

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

Lynchburg city is served by 135 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.

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