First Christian Church

The community around First Christian Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Poverty Rate: 34.8% (23.8–45.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.6%
• Diabetes: 19.4%
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Child Poverty: 29.7% (13.9–45.4%)

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

Churches near First Christian Church

• Community Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
• Church of the Brethren — 0.1 mi away
• Freewill Church — 0.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
• Immanuel Missionary Chapel — 0.2 mi away
• Full Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
• Saint Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
• First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
• Rocky Ford Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away