First Congregational Church of Waterbury
First Congregational Church of Waterbury is a Congregational church at 222 West Main Street in Waterbury, CT 06702. It is one of 98 churches in Waterbury.
222 West Main Street, Waterbury, CT, 06702Phone: (203) 757-0331 · Website: https://www.firstchurch-wtby.org
Shares a ministry location with Waterbury Baptist Ministries.
First Congregational Church of Waterbury 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 of Waterbury
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. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 50.1%
- Obesity: 48.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.8%
- Poverty Rate: 42.5% (30.2–54.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 35.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.9%
- Diabetes: 25.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.3%
- Unemployment: 15.6% (4.2–27.0%)
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Child Poverty: 24.2% (10.0–38.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Waterbury city is served by 53 churches — about one congregation for every 2,160 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church of Waterbury
- Waterbury Baptist Ministries — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Puerta De Salvación, Inc — 0.1 mi away
- Smirna Misionera Church — 0.1 mi away
- Waterbury Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ministerio Jesucristo Rey de Reyes — 0.1 mi away
- Basilica of the Immaculate Conception — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia New Life A/D de Waterbury — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethel Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- IPUL Waterbury — 0.4 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Hopeville Church — 1.7 mi away
- Union Congregational Church — 3.1 mi away in Watertown, CT
- Middlebury Congregational Church, UCC — 4.6 mi away in Middlebury, CT
- Congregational Church of Naugatuck — 4.6 mi away in Naugatuck, CT
- Wolcott Congregational Church — 4.7 mi away in Wolcott, CT
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