First Progressive Church of Christ
First Progressive Church of Christ is a church at 7257-7259 South Wabash Avenue in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago.
7257-7259 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60619Service times
- Sunday 10:50am
- Tuesday 9:15am
- Wednesday 7pm
First Progressive Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 326 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Illinois — 10,488 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.
Ministries at First Progressive Church of Christ
- Food and Clothing Support
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The community around First Progressive Church of Christ
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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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: 32.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (14.0–33.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near First Progressive Church of Christ
- Liberation Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Chicagoland Bible Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Martin Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Divine Church of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Columbanus Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Moses Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Restorationist churches nearby
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