Peniel Evangelical Friends Church
Peniel Evangelical Friends Church is a Quaker church in Mathews, VA 23109. It is one of 15 churches in Mathews.
Mathews, VA, 23109Peniel Evangelical Friends 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 Peniel Evangelical Friends Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (0.0–20.3%)
- Social Isolation: 30.9%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Peniel Evangelical Friends Church
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Methodist Tabernacle — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Matthew Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Wayland Church — 2.2 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Christ Church — 2.8 mi away
- Westville Christian Church — 2.8 mi away
- Kingston Parish — 2.9 mi away
- Westvile Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church - Mathews — 3 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- New Point Friends Church — 3.3 mi away