First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a Congregational church at 907 Paul Street in Ottawa, IL 61350. It is one of 42 churches in Ottawa.
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907 Paul Street, Ottawa, IL, 61350Website: http://www.uccottawa.org
Shares a ministry location with Open Table United Church of Christ.
First Congregational Church 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.
Ministries at First Congregational Church
- Public Action to Deliver Shelter
- Second Sunday Lunch
- Mission of the Month
- Christmas Dinner
- Youth Outlook
- Adult Studies
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The community around First Congregational Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
- Food Insecurity: 19.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (9.1–23.5%)
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.9–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Ottawa city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 569 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Open Table United Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Columba Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Walking with Jesus — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Lutheran Brethern Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 13.2 mi away in LaSalle, IL
- Zion United Church of Christ — 14.9 mi away in Peru, IL
- Union Congregational Church — 21.2 mi away in Somonauk, IL
- Rollo Congregational United Church of Christ — 22.4 mi away in Earlville, IL
- Park Street United Church of Christ — 22.8 mi away in Mazon, IL