First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church in Bethel, CT 06801. It is one of 15 churches in Bethel.
As a people of God, we seek to educate ourselves and our children in the ways of Christ, so we can learn to use our gifts to better our world and our community by spreading the Word of God.
We are a family-friendly faith community, a historic New England Church, located at 46 Main Street, in the heart of downtown Bethel, CT.
Wheelchair accessible · Part of Southern New England Conference
Bethel, CT, 06801Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (203) 743-1877 · Website: https://firstchurchbethel.org/
First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 218 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Connecticut — 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 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (7.6–22.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Saint Thomas Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Chance Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Luso-Brazilian Seventh-day Adventist — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.6 mi away
- Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia Luso-Brasileira de Danbury — 0.6 mi away
- Maranatha Christian Church — 1 mi away
- St. Mary's Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Mission — 1.9 mi away
- Silvani — 1.9 mi away in Danbury, CT
More Congregational churches nearby
- First Congregational Church — 2.8 mi away in Danbury, CT
- Newtown Congregational Church — 5.6 mi away in Newtown, CT
- Ridgebury Congregational Church — 6.1 mi away in Ridgefield, CT
- Congregational Church of Brookfield — 6.5 mi away in Brookfield, CT
- King Street United Church of Christ — 6.5 mi away in Danbury, CT
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