First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a Conservative Congregational church at 326 West 12th Avenue in Emporia, KS 66801. It is one of 63 churches in Emporia.
Our mission leads us to feed the hungry--in both body and spirit so that we all may Grow in our relationship with Jesus and understand God more deeply through Scripture.
At First Congregational Church our Mission is to help Grow the Family of God. We lean into Jesus who leads us to Worship & Grow, Serve & Go.
326 West 12th Avenue, Emporia, KS, 66801Service times
- Tuesday 6:30pm · evening CHILL CHURCH
Phone: (620) 342-6854 · Website: https://www.firstchurchemporia.org/
First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 26 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Kansas — 2,929 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
- Food Assistance
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The community around First Congregational Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (17.7–37.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.3%
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Child Poverty: 23.9% (4.5–43.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (7.9–19.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Emporia city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 551 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Church of Christ in Emporia — 0.1 mi away
- Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Didde Catholic Campus Center — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centro Cristiano De Emporia — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ Science — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- United Church of Christ — 23.9 mi away in Council Grove, KS