First Christian Church
First Christian Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 2010 Babcock St S in Melbourne, FL 32901-5302. It is one of 156 churches in Melbourne.
We are an Open and Affirming congregation of Christ-seekers that follows the example of Jesus in welcoming all to participate in the full life and ministry of the church.
YOU are welcome at First Christian Church Melbourne! Come, just as you are, to experience the Divine through a mix of traditional and contemporary music and worship elements.
2010 Babcock St S, Melbourne, FL, 32901-5302Phone: (321) 723-6831 · Website: https://fccmelbourne.org/
Shares a ministry location with First Christian Church and Riviera United Church of Christ.
First Christian Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 73 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Florida — 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 Christian Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
- Poverty Rate: 20.7% (11.0–30.5%)
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.2–17.7%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.0–13.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Christian Church
- First Christian Church and Riviera United Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Historic Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Grace — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- OP 133 — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Riviera United Church of Christ — 3.7 mi away in Palm Bay, FL
- Cocoa Beach Community Church — 16.5 mi away in Cocoa Beach, FL
- Hope United Church of Christ — 18 mi away in Rockledge, FL