First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church at 440 Elm Avenue in Long Beach, CA 90802. It is one of 336 churches in Long Beach.
440 Elm Avenue, Long Beach, CA, 90802First Church of Christ Scientist 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 First Church of Christ Scientist
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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (4.2–15.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (10.7–26.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (5.6–19.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Long Beach city is served by 143 churches — about one congregation for every 3,245 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Central Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Church in Action;formerly First Methodist — 0.1 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Moore Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Church — 0.3 mi away
- A Village Community — 0.3 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
- Fifth Church of Christ Scientist — 4.1 mi away
- Thirtythird Church of Christ Scientist — 4.8 mi away in Los Angeles, CA
- Christian Science Reading Room — 4.9 mi away
- Fourth Church of Christ Scientist — 5.7 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 6 mi away
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