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, 94704

Website: 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.

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