Christian Science Reading Room
Christian Science Reading Room is a church at 188 E 3rd St in Chico, CA 95928-5404. It is one of 89 churches in Chico.
188 E 3rd St, Chico, CA, 95928-5404Phone: +15303421545 · Website: https://www.christiansciencechico.org/
Christian Science Reading Room is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 203 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across California — 991 across the United States on The Church Map.
Christian Science, Unity, Religious Science, Swedenborgian and Spiritualist congregations use Christian Scripture and Christian language, and read both through convictions about mind, healing, and an indwelling divine that historic Christian teaching does not share. Reference sources genuinely disagree on whether to file them as Christian at all; this map lists them and leaves the question open.
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The community around Christian Science Reading Room
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. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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: 45.7%
- Food Insecurity: 26.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Depression: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (5.0–17.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Christian Science Reading Room
- Trinity Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bidwell Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine of Canterbury — 0.2 mi away
- St. John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Community Church of Chico — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Chico — 0.5 mi away
- The Esplanade Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
- 1st Church of Christ, Scientist, Chico, CA — 0.8 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 24.1 mi away in Willows, CA