First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a Christ Scientist church in Tulare, CA 93274. It is one of 67 churches in Tulare.
Tulare, CA, 93274Shares a ministry location with Crossview Baptist Church.
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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Food Insecurity: 31.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (11.2–33.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (5.8–26.6%)
- Unemployment: 9.3% (3.7–14.8%)
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (12.7–41.2%)
- Depression: 23.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Tulare city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 2,485 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Crossview Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- New Life Community Church of Tulare — 0.1 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tulare Christian Outreach Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Bible Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sunrise Community Church — 0.3 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
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