First United Church of Christ

First United Church of Christ is a church in Sheffield, IL 61361. It is one of 5 churches in Sheffield.

Sheffield, IL, 61361

First 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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The community around First United Church of Christ

It takes 5.7 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: 33.1%
Obesity: 37.8%
Depression: 23.1%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First United Church of Christ

Old Danish Church — 0.2 mi away
Sheffield United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint Patricks Church — 0.3 mi away
Bunker Hill Church — 3.2 mi away in Buda, IL
First Congregational Church of Neponset, IL — 5 mi away in Neponset, IL
New Hope United Methodist Church - Neponset, IL — 5 mi away in Neponset, IL
Bunker Hill Church — 5.2 mi away
Grace United Brethren Church — 7.8 mi away in Manlius, IL
First Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Wyanet, IL
United Methodist Church of Wyanet — 7.9 mi away in Wyanet, IL

More Congregational churches nearby

First Congregational Church — 12.8 mi away in Kewanee, IL
Open Prairie United Church — 14.2 mi away in Princeton, IL
Hampshire Colony Congregational-United Church of Christ — 14.2 mi away in Princeton, IL
Atkinson United Church of Christ — 15.3 mi away in Atkinson, IL
First Congregational United Church of Christ — 20.1 mi away in Wyoming, IL

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