First Congregational Church of Berkeley
First Congregational Church of Berkeley is a United Church Of Christ church at 2345 Channing Way in Berkeley, CA 94704. It is one of 96 churches in Berkeley, and one of 3 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704Website: https://www.fccb.org/
First Congregational Church of Berkeley is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 116 congregations of the Congregational family gather across California — 2,928 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around First Congregational Church of Berkeley
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. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 3,700 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: 58.2%
- Social Isolation: 51.6%
- Food Insecurity: 35.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.1%
- Unemployment: 13.7% (9.4–18.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Berkeley city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 1,785 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church of Berkeley
- First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church in Berkeley — 0.1 mi away
- Livingwater Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Science Organization at the University — 0.3 mi away
- Ark Ministries of Berkeley — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Sanctuary Berkeley [sunday Service] — 0.3 mi away
- Redeemed Christian Church Of Godbeautiful Gate Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Grace North Church — 0.9 mi away
- Berkeley Chinese Community Church — 1.2 mi away
- Plymouth Church — 3.2 mi away in Oakland, CA
- Arlington Community Church — 3.4 mi away
- First Congregational United Church of Christ — 3.7 mi away in Oakland, CA
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