First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 540 South Commonwealth Avenue in Los Angeles, CA 90020. It is one of 2,252 churches in Los Angeles, and one of 7 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
We live in the deeply held value that every human being is a child of God, and that we are called to open the doors of our church as wide as God’s heart.
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles is a progressive, positive, and open church with a strong arts and music culture. We welcome and celebrate those of all faith traditions, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
540 South Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90020Service times
- Sunday 10am · MorningsCampus will not open until
Phone: (213) 385-1341 · Website: http://www.FCCLA.org/
First Congregational Church 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.
Ministries at First Congregational Church
- Food Ministry
- Gardening
- Music Ministry
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The community around First Congregational Church
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 3,200 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: 42.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.8% (10.2–21.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.8–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Los Angeles city is served by 867 churches — about one congregation for every 4,457 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Church of the Precious Blood — 0.1 mi away
- Great Vision Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Somang Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Word International Ministries Los Angeles — 0.2 mi away
- Palabra De Gracia — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the New Jerusalem — 0.2 mi away
- Doulos Mission Church — 0.3 mi away
- Eui Jung Whang — 0.3 mi away
- First English Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thmc — 0.3 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- United Church of Christ Scientist — 2.2 mi away
- Mount Hollywood United Church of Christ — 2.7 mi away
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