Friedens United Church of Christ
Friedens United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 820 N Main St in Marissa, IL 62257-1037. It is one of 6 churches in Marissa, and one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
Serving since 1957 · Services in Spanish
820 N Main St, Marissa, IL, 62257-1037Phone: +16182952004 · Website: http://ucc.org/
Friedens United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 218 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Illinois — 2,948 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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Upcoming events at Friedens United Church of Christ
- Thu, Aug 6 · 3:30 PM: Fostering Vitality: Liturgical Resources for a Faithful & Vital Church — Zoom
- Tue, Aug 11 · 4 PM: Be Prophetic, Not Partisan: Election Engagement 101 for Congregations — Zoom
- Wed, Aug 12 · 1 PM: Can Advocacy with Congress Still Accomplish Anything? — Zoom
- Thu, Aug 13 · 3:30 PM: Economic Justice: Love Our Laborers as Yourself — Zoom
- Wed, Aug 19 · 3 PM: Money, Ministry, and Meaning: Financial Wellness as an Act of Pastoral Self-care — Zoom
From Friedens United Church of Christ's public calendar (http://ucc.org/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Friedens United Church of Christ
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 32.2%
- Obesity: 37.3%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (3.6–10.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friedens United Church of Christ
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Marissa Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Peters United Church of Christ — 4.2 mi away in Lenzburg, IL
- Tilden Church of the Nazarene — 4.7 mi away in Tilden, IL
- Tilden Presbyterian Church — 4.8 mi away in Tilden, IL
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 4.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Tilden — 4.8 mi away in Tilden, IL
- Holy Ghost and Trinity United Churches of Christ — 4.9 mi away in Lenzburg, IL
More Congregational churches nearby
- Saint Peters United Church of Christ — 4.2 mi away in Lenzburg, IL
- Saint Johns United Church of Christ — 8.2 mi away in New Athens, IL
- Friedens United Church of Christ — 13.5 mi away in Hecker, IL
- St Peter United Church of Christ — 13.5 mi away in Red Bud, IL
- Saint Pauls United Church of Christ — 14.7 mi away in Freeburg, IL