University Friends Meeting

University Friends Meeting is a Quaker church in Seattle, WA 98105. It is one of 545 churches in Seattle.

Seattle, WA, 98105

Phone: +1-206-547-6449 · Website: http://www.scn.org/friends/ufm.html

University Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 8 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Washington — 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 University Friends Meeting

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 3,000 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.

  • Poverty Rate: 34.2% (22.5–45.8%)
  • Depression: 27.7%
  • Unemployment: 11.9% (6.4–17.3%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Seattle city is served by 331 churches — about one congregation for every 2,218 residents.

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