Centre Street Congregational Church
Centre Street Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 9 Center Street in Machias, ME 04654. It is one of 13 churches in Machias.
Serving since 1782 · Fully accessible
9 Center Street, Machias, ME, 04654Phone: (207) 255-6665 · Website: http://www.centrestreetchurch.org/
Centre Street Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 69 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Maine — 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.
Ministries at Centre Street Congregational Church
- Food pantry
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The community around Centre Street Congregational Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (1.8–19.8%)
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.0% (15.4–26.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Centre Street Congregational Church
- Holy Name Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- Machias Valley Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Aidens Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Aidans Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Downeast Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Whitneyville Congregational Church — 2.1 mi away
- Whitneyville Congregational Church — 3.3 mi away
- Kennebec Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- First Congregational Church of Cherryfield — 24.5 mi away in Cherryfield, ME