Tacoma Friends Meeting

Tacoma Friends Meeting is a Quaker church in Tacoma, WA 98409. It is one of 382 churches in Tacoma.

Tacoma, WA, 98409

Tacoma 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 Tacoma Friends Meeting

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 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.

  • Obesity: 40.4%
  • Depression: 28.3%
  • Child Poverty: 23.2% (10.0–37.1%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.6% (10.6–26.5%)

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

Tacoma city is served by 163 churches — about one congregation for every 1,366 residents.

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