First Congregational United Church of Christ
First Congregational United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 2501 Harrison Street in Oakland, CA 94611. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 3 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
First Congregational Church of Oakland has long been guided by the principle that Love is First.
First Congregational Church of Oakland is a community shaped by generations of faith, prayer, memory, shared experience, and presence.Its story is held in both the people who have passed through its doors and the enduring values that continue to define the space today.
2501 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA, 94611Phone: +1-510-482-1080 · Website: https://lovefirstoakland.org/
Shares a ministry location with Bay Area Christian Connection.
First Congregational United Church of Christ 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.
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Latest from First Congregational Church of Oakland's YouTube channel: Easter sermon: "On (Not) Recognizing Jesus" by Rev. Robin Dowell-Baum, Sunday April 9th, 2023. (all videos).
The community around First Congregational United Church of Christ
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 nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. 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: 37.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.
Churches near First Congregational United Church of Christ
- Bay Area Christian Connection — 0 mi away
- Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Cathedral of Christ the Light — 0.3 mi away
- Family Aid Catholic Education — 0.3 mi away
- Grand Avenue Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Faith MBC — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Plymouth Church — 0.9 mi away
- The First Samoan Congregational United Church of Christ — 2.8 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 3.2 mi away in Alameda, CA
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