First Church of Christ

First Church of Christ is a church at 162 Monument Street in Groton, CT 06340. It is one of 33 churches in Groton.

162 Monument Street, Groton, CT, 06340

Shares a ministry location with Groton Congregational Church.

First Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 43 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Connecticut — 10,488 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.

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The community around First Church of Christ

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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 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: 32.6%
  • Unemployment: 11.5% (1.3–21.8%)
  • Depression: 23.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Groton city is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 2,296 residents.

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