First Church of Christ, Scientist

First Church of Christ, Scientist is a Christ Scientist church at 120 East Valerio Street in Santa Barbara, CA 93101. It is one of 111 churches in Santa Barbara.

120 East Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101

Phone: 805-966-6661 · Website: http://www.christiansciencesantabarbara.com/

First 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. 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: 32.0%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Santa Barbara city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 1,925 residents.

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