First Church of Christ

First Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 60 Gold Street in Hartford, CT 06103. It is one of 177 churches in Hartford, and one of 8 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.

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60 Gold Street, Hartford, CT, 06103

Phone: (860) 249-5631 · Website: https://centerchurchhartford.org

First Church of Christ 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 Church of Christ

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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: 35.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.0% (14.0–30.1%)
  • Food Insecurity: 20.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%

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

Hartford city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 1,552 residents.

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