First Church in Belfast United Church of Christ
First Church in Belfast United Church of Christ is a Christian church at 8 Court Street in Belfast, ME 04915. It is one of 15 churches in Belfast, and one of 2 Christian congregations in the city.
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8 Court Street, Belfast, ME, 04915Service times
- Friday 9am
Phone: (207) 338-2282 · Website: https://firstchurchinbelfast.org/
First Church in Belfast United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 68 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Maine — 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 Church in Belfast United Church of Christ
- Community Meal
- Personal Care and Food Support
- Child Care
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The community around First Church in Belfast United Church of Christ
In the few miles around 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 here carry depression, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Depression: 27.2%
- Social Isolation: 30.0%
- Child Poverty: 24.6% (7.2–42.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.2% (12.5–23.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Belfast city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 1,158 residents.
Churches near First Church in Belfast United Church of Christ
- Fresh Start Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Belfast — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Francis Of Assisi Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Margarets Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanual Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Belfast United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Beacon of Hope on the Hill — 1.1 mi away
- Faith Temple Church — 1.4 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Belfast — 1.4 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Trinitarian Congregational Parish of Castine — 10.6 mi away in Castine, ME
- First Congregational Church — 15.2 mi away in Camden, ME