First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church in Santa Barbara, CA 93105. It is one of 111 churches in Santa Barbara.

Exploring ways to share God’s love and justice with the world

Santa Barbara, CA, 93105

Service times

  • Sunday 10am

Phone: (805) 682-7146 · Website: http://www.santabarbarafirst.org/

First Congregational Church 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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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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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: 33.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.3–23.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 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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