First United Church of Christ

First United Church of Christ is a church in Santa Cruz, CA 95060. It is one of 62 churches in Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz, CA, 95060

Website: http://www.fccsantacruz.org

Shares a ministry location with Peace United Church of Christ.

First United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 116 congregations of the Congregational family gather across California — 2,929 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 United Church of Christ

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 nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 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: 39.4%
  • Depression: 24.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.5% (9.4–25.7%)
  • Unemployment: 6.4% (3.5–9.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Santa Cruz city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 1,831 residents.

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