Nazarene First Church
Nazarene First Church is a church in Portland, ME 04102. It is one of 80 churches in Portland.
Portland, ME, 04102Nazarene First Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 44 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Maine — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Nazarene First Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 11.0% (2.5–19.4%)
- Social Isolation: 31.0%
- Depression: 27.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Portland city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 1,244 residents.
Churches near Nazarene First Church
- Portland New Church — 0.2 mi away
- Swedenborgian Church — 0.2 mi away
- HopeGateWay — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Ansgar Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unity of Greater Portland Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Square Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Light Church — 0.5 mi away
- Woodfords Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Patricks Church — 0.6 mi away
- Jesus Family Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- South Portland Church of the Nazarene — 3.4 mi away in South Portland, ME
- Church of the Nazarene — 3.6 mi away in South Portland, ME
- Cape Elizabeth Church of the Nazarene — 7.4 mi away in Cape Elizabeth, ME
- Campground Tabernacle — 11.6 mi away in Old Orchard Beach, ME
- Sebago Church of the Nazarene — 20.9 mi away in Sebago, ME