New Ark United Church of Christ
New Ark United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 300 E Main St in Newark, DE 19711-7148. It is one of 108 churches in Newark.
We strive to follow Micah’s wisdom:
We are a caring, diverse, inclusive and exciting community striving to demonstrate our faith and values both by what we say and what we do.
Accessible parking
300 E Main St, Newark, DE, 19711-7148Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (302) 737-4711 · Website: http://newarkucc.org/
New Ark United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,928 congregations of the Congregational family gather 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 New Ark United Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 95.5%
- Poverty Rate: 66.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Food Insecurity: 34.2%
- Depression: 32.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.9%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (2.8–13.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Ark United Church of Christ
- New Heart Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Newark United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lutheran Campus Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- New Omega Christian Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.9 mi away
- Prayer Temple Ministries — 0.9 mi away
- St Thomas Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away