Eastern Ave Christian
Eastern Ave Christian is a Christian Reformed church at 514 Eastern Ave SE in Grand Rapids, MI 49506. It is one of 421 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 7 Christian Reformed congregations in the city.
God is making all things new; therefore we are moving with the Spirit in the messy and holy work of renewing worship, nurturing faith, doing justice, caring for creation, and building community, with our neighbors.
Eastern Avenue Church is a community of people trying to follow Jesus in real, everyday life.
Wheelchair accessible
514 Eastern Ave SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506Service times
- Sunday 11am · morning
Phone: (616) 454-4888 · Website: https://www.eacrc.org/
Eastern Ave Christian is part of the Reformed (Continental) family of churches in The American Church Story. 209 congregations of the Reformed (Continental) family gather across Michigan — 882 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Continental Reformed churches gave the church some of its most comforting teaching — the Heidelberg Catechism begins by asking what your only comfort in life and in death is, and answers that you are not your own — along with a vision of every ordinary square inch of life as belonging to God. Their schools and colleges have taught far beyond their own numbers.
Ministries at Eastern Ave Christian
- Saturday Food Program
- Tutoring
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The community around Eastern Ave Christian
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Child Poverty: 34.5% (21.0–49.2%)
- Depression: 28.9%
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (17.4–33.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (3.0–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near Eastern Ave Christian
- Urban Family Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wealthy Street Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- St Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- 811 Wealthy St SE — 0.2 mi away
- First Community A.M.E. Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eastern Avenue Church Of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Grand Rapids La Paz Spanish SDA — 0.2 mi away
More Reformed churches nearby
- First Christian Reformed Church – Grand Rapids — 0.3 mi away
- Neland Ave Christian Reformed Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Reformed Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Christian Reformed Church — 0.8 mi away
- Heritage Netherland Reformed — 1.1 mi away
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