Where is First Friends Church located?

First Friends Church is at 5307 Portsmouth Boulevard, Portsmouth, VA, 23701.

What time are services at First Friends Church?

First Friends Church meets Sunday at 10:30am (Service). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Friends Church?

First Friends Church in Portsmouth, VA is a Friends church.

First Friends Church

First Friends Church is a Friends church at 5307 Portsmouth Boulevard in Portsmouth, VA 23701. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth.

To meet people where they are with the hope and love of Jesus Christ.

We want to be your waypoint, the spot on your map that you know you can always turn to.

5307 Portsmouth Boulevard, Portsmouth, VA, 23701

Service times

Sunday 10:30am · Service

Phone: (757) 488-0484 · Website: https://www.portsmouthfriends.church/

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

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

Social Isolation: 37.7%
Food Insecurity: 20.9%
Obesity: 38.9%
Depression: 24.3%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
Diabetes: 14.5%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Unemployment: 7.2% (2.8–11.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.

Churches near First Friends Church

Thrive Church — 0.1 mi away
Saint Andrews United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
West Park Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
Collinswood Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Simonsdale Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
Adventure Church — 0.4 mi away
Pinecrest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Portsmouth Alliance Church — 0.4 mi away
Rescue Church — 0.4 mi away

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