City of Refuge UCC
City of Refuge UCC is a United Church Of Christ church at 8400 Enterprise Way in Oakland, CA 94621-1309. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
City of Refuge continues to live out the demands of its faith through the various programs that it runs or partners with other organizations to run that address substance abuse, homelessness, HIV/AIDS and green justice.
The seed for City of Refuge UCC grew from a small group of mostly gay and lesbian Christians’ deep desire to have a worship space that resembled the churches of their youth, but contained none of the toxic theology that was so often present in those spaces.
Serving since 1991
8400 Enterprise Way, Oakland, CA, 94621-1309Service times
- Sunday 11am · Services
Phone: +15106336316 · Website: https://www.cityofrefugeucc.org/
City of Refuge UCC is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 119 congregations of the Congregational family gather across California — 2,948 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 City of Refuge UCC
- Food pantry
- Counseling
- Mental health support
- Transgender ministry
- Youth ministry
- Worship and liturgical arts
- Intercessory prayer
- Music department
- Africa outreach
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The community around City of Refuge UCC
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 44.5%
- Food Insecurity: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Child Poverty: 24.2% (11.5–37.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.8–27.2%)
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (3.4–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near City of Refuge UCC
- Judah The Gathering Place Of Ministery Unto Jesus Of Oakland — 0.2 mi away
- Mountain Of Fire and Miracles Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Tree of Life Empowerment Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Church Homes of Northern California — 0.7 mi away
- Cosmo Dance 2 — 0.7 mi away
- Cosmopolitan Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Woodland Community Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Temple — 0.8 mi away
- East Oakland Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Bernards Roman Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- First Congregational Church — 3.6 mi away in Alameda, CA
- The First Samoan Congregational United Church of Christ — 3.7 mi away
- Skyline Community Church — 4.1 mi away
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