First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 137 Derby Avenue in Derby, CT 06418. It is one of 13 churches in Derby.
Wheelchair accessible
137 Derby Avenue, Derby, CT, 06418Website: https://uccderbyct.org/
First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 219 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Connecticut — 2,928 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 2 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 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 34.1%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.2–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Derby city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 1,237 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Saint Michaels Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Nuevos Comienzos — 0.5 mi away
- Derby United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Congregational Church of Derby — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady Queen of the Apostles Parish — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Restoration Church — 0.7 mi away in Shelton, CT
- Shelton Congregational Church — 0.7 mi away in Shelton, CT
More Congregational churches nearby
- First Congregational Church — 1.7 mi away in Ansonia, CT
- Huntington Congregational Church — 3.9 mi away in Shelton, CT
- Orange Congregational Church — 4.1 mi away in Orange, CT
- First Church of Christ — 4.3 mi away
- Seymour Congregational Church — 4.9 mi away in Seymour, CT