First Church in Ipswich
First Church in Ipswich is a United Church Of Christ church at 1 Meetinghouse Green in Ipswich, MA 01938. It is one of 10 churches in Ipswich.
In our worship, in our community, we seek to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with the Trinity of Love.
We are a progressive Open and Affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ, and we greet you with open hearts.
Serving since 1634
1 Meetinghouse Green, Ipswich, MA, 01938Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: +1 978-356-2211 · Website: https://firstchurchipswich.org/
First Church in Ipswich is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 161 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Massachusetts — 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 Church in Ipswich
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter 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: 29.4%
- Depression: 23.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Church in Ipswich
- Living Faith United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Ascension Memorial Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church Study — 0.2 mi away
- Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Orthodox Church of Saint John the Russian — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope Parish — 0.8 mi away
- FPC Northshore — 1.5 mi away
- St. John The Confessor Orthodox Church — 1.8 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 3.2 mi away in Rowley, MA
- First Baptist Church of Rowley — 3.2 mi away in Rowley, MA
More Congregational churches nearby
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- West Gloucester Church — 6.9 mi away in Gloucester, MA
- First Parish Church — 8 mi away in Manchester, MA
- First Parish Church of Newbury — 8.2 mi away in Newbury, MA
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