First Church of Christ
First Church of Christ is a church at 1020 West Highland Avenue in Elgin, IL 60123. It is one of 116 churches in Elgin.
1020 West Highland Avenue, Elgin, IL, 60123Shares a ministry location with Iglesia de Cristo en Elgin.
First Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 288 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Illinois — 9,607 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.
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The community around First 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Food Insecurity: 23.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Elgin city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 1,854 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ
- Iglesia de Cristo en Elgin — 0 mi away
- Larkin Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of Elgin — 0.2 mi away
- Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Luz de Esperanza Covenant Church — 0.7 mi away
- Evangelical Covenant Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Thomas More Roman Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
More Restorationist churches nearby
- Elgin Church of Christ — 2.4 mi away
- Lifeline Christian Church — 8.3 mi away in Algonquin, IL
- Church of Christ — 11.3 mi away in West Chicago, IL