United Church of Gainesville
United Church of Gainesville is a United Church Of Christ church at 1624 NW 5th Avenue in Gainesville, FL 32603. It is one of 303 churches in Gainesville.
Our spiritual community of more than 700 members embraces diversity, practices inclusiveness, extends compassion and engenders justice through the church’s numerous service and outreach programs.
1624 NW 5th Avenue, Gainesville, FL, 32603Service times
- Sunday 10am · Worship Offered
Website: http://www.ucgainesville.org/
United Church of Gainesville is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 73 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Florida — 2,948 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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Latest from United Church of Gainesville (UCG)'s YouTube channel: Sunday Worship at the UCG - 8- 2 -26 (all videos).
The community around United Church of Gainesville
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 half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,400 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.
- Poverty Rate: 56.4%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (3.3–10.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gainesville city is served by 120 churches — about one congregation for every 1,073 residents.
Churches near United Church of Gainesville
- First Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- University Lutheran Church & Student Center — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Liberty Hill United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ University City — 0.2 mi away
- Episcopal Chapel of the Incarnation — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Campus House (CCH) — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Augustine Catholic Church & Student Center — 0.3 mi away
- University United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- University Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greenhouse Church University Campus — 0.5 mi away
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