First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Wasco, CA 93280. It is one of 27 churches in Wasco.
Wasco, CA, 93280First 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 37.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (11.0–35.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Child Poverty: 22.9% (7.1–38.7%)
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.1–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Wasco city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 1,845 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Wasco Christian Church — 0 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Methodist Church of Wasco — 0.3 mi away
- Wasco Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- LifeHouse Church Wasco — 0.4 mi away
- Central Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Griffith Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Generation Christian Church of Wasco — 0.6 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
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