First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Rome, GA 30161. It is one of 198 churches in Rome.
Rome, GA, 30161First Church of Christ Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 13 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across Georgia — 991 across the United States on The Church Map.
Christian Science, Unity, Religious Science, Swedenborgian and Spiritualist congregations use Christian Scripture and Christian language, and read both through convictions about mind, healing, and an indwelling divine that historic Christian teaching does not share. Reference sources genuinely disagree on whether to file them as Christian at all; this map lists them and leaves the question open.
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The community around First Church of Christ Scientist
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 40.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Child Poverty: 31.9% (12.4–51.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.4% (15.2–39.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (7.4–21.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.8–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Rome city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 641 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Seven Hills Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peters Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Rome — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Korean Presbyterian Church Of Rome — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away