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.
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5307 Portsmouth Boulevard, Portsmouth, VA, 23701Website: https://www.portsmouthfriends.church/
First Friends Church is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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