First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 12 Elm Street, Braintree, MA, 02184 in Braintree Town, MA 02184. It is one of 11 churches in Braintree Town.
We are committed to spreading the light and love of Christ into the world through worship and service.
The First Congregational Church of Braintree is an Open & Affirming Congregation working in partnership with all churches of the United Church of Christ.
12 Elm Street, Braintree, MA, 02184, Braintree Town, MA, 02184Service times
Sunday school meets each Sunday during 9:30 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (781) 843-3616 · Website: https://www.firstchurchbraintree.com/
Shares a ministry location with The Activation Church.
First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 157 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Massachusetts — 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.
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The community around First Congregational Church
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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,100 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Braintree Town city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 2,980 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- The Activation Church — 0 mi away in Braintree, MA
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- All Souls Church — 0.2 mi away in Braintree, MA
- St. Thomas More Church — 0.4 mi away in Braintree, MA
- Emmanuel Parish Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Catherine Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away in Braintree, MA
- Greater Grace Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Braintree — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away in Quincy, MA
- Saint Francis of Assisi Church — 1.2 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Union Congregational Church — 1.7 mi away
- Quincy Point Congregation Church — 2.1 mi away in Quincy, MA
- Wollaston Congregational Church — 3 mi away in Quincy, MA
- Old South Union Congregational Church — 4.2 mi away in Weymouth Town, MA
- First Congregational Church — 4.5 mi away in Randolph, MA
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