West Gloucester Church
West Gloucester Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 488 Essex Avenue in Gloucester, MA 01930. It is one of 20 churches in Gloucester, and one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
We are a small church with a big heart! WGTCC has worshiped God and served Cape Ann since 1713. Rooted and grounded in God's grace and our long history, we are committed to living our faith and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ, in action as well as word.
488 Essex Avenue, Gloucester, MA, 01930Service times
Wednesday, July 29, 6:00 pm (as listed)
Phone: (781) 910-0284 · Website: https://www.wgtccucc.org/
West Gloucester 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.
Ministries at West Gloucester Church
- Worship
- Holy Communion
- Bible Study
- Fellowship Opportunities
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The community around West Gloucester Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 30.1%
- Depression: 23.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Gloucester city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 3,314 residents.
Churches near West Gloucester Church
- Cape Ann Bible Church — 0.9 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.9 mi away
- North Shore Bible Church — 2.1 mi away in Essex, MA
- Calvary Chapel Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 2.7 mi away
- First Universalist Church — 2.8 mi away in Essex, MA
- St. John the Baptist Catholic Church — 2.8 mi away in Essex, MA
- First Congregational Church — 2.9 mi away in Essex, MA
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 3.2 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- First United Church of Christ Congregational — 6.1 mi away
- First Church in Ipswich — 6.9 mi away in Ipswich, MA
- First Congregational Church — 10.1 mi away in Rowley, MA
- Tabernacle Congregational Church — 11 mi away in Salem, MA
- Maple Street Congregational Church — 11.4 mi away in Danvers, MA
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