First Church of Christ
First Church of Christ is a Church Of Christ church in Whiting, IN 46394. It is one of 10 churches in Whiting.
Whiting, IN, 46394Shares a ministry location with New Life Christian Church.
First Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 350 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Indiana — 10,488 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. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Unemployment: 12.5% (7.2–17.8%)
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (9.3–29.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (6.4–20.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Whiting city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 571 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ
- New Life Christian Church — 0 mi away
- Hungarian Reformed Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.1 mi away
- Whiting United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Saint Mary's Byzantine Church — 0.2 mi away
- Whiting Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Restorationist churches nearby
- United Church of Christ — 3.2 mi away in East Chicago, IN
- Calumet City Church of Christ — 4.7 mi away in Calumet City, IL
- Church of Christ (historical);Apostolic Church of the Lord — 5.3 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Zion Temple Church of Christ — 5.6 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Paxton Avenue Church of Christ — 5.8 mi away in Chicago, IL