First United Church of Christ
First United Church of Christ is a Christian church at Elgin Avenue in Forest Park, IL 60130. It is one of 15 churches in Forest Park, and one of 2 Christian congregations in the city.
Elgin Avenue, Forest Park, IL, 60130Shares a ministry location with Engage Christian Church.
First United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 215 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Illinois — 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 United Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 9.8% (5.1–14.5%)
- Social Isolation: 31.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Forest Park village is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 2,023 residents.
Churches near First United Church of Christ
- Engage Christian Church — 0 mi away
- Catholic Bishop Of Chicago — 0.2 mi away
- Permanent Diaconate — 0.2 mi away
- West Central Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away in Oak Park, IL
- Saint Bernardine's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chicagoland Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Harvard Congregational Church — 0.4 mi away in Oak Park, IL
- Tracey Barbour Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Willard Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away in Oak Park, IL
- Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Pilgrim Congregational Church — 1.7 mi away in Oak Park, IL
- Trinity Community Church — 1.8 mi away in Berwyn, IL
- Trinity Community Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Chicago, IL
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