Woodfords Congregational Church
Woodfords Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 202 Woodford Street in Portland, ME 04103. It is one of 80 churches in Portland.
Woodfords Congregational Church, a vital part of the greater Portland community since 1872, envisions its physical building and environs to be in covenant with its core mission of creating community, championing justice, and growing with God.
Woodfords Congregational Church is a Just-Peace and Open-And-Affirming Congregation in the United Church of Christ.
Accessible parking
202 Woodford Street, Portland, ME, 04103Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8am
Phone: (207) 774-8243 · Website: http://www.woodfordschurch.org/
Woodfords Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 68 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Maine — 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 Woodfords Congregational Church
- Community Meal
- Youth Program
- Youth Theater
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Latest from Woodfords Church - Portland, Maine's YouTube channel: 09 13 Sunday Worship - “Surrounded” (all videos).
The community around Woodfords Congregational Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 30.7%
- Depression: 26.4%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (1.5–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Portland city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 1,244 residents.
Churches near Woodfords Congregational Church
- Jesus Family Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Portland New Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Gateway — 0.4 mi away
- Central Square Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Light Church — 0.5 mi away
- Swedenborgian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Nazarene First Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sameul Wilde Memorial Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- HopeGateWay — 0.7 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church — 3.9 mi away in Westbrook, ME
- Falmouth Congregational Church — 4.4 mi away in Falmouth, ME
- First Parish Congregational Church — 7.8 mi away in Gorham, ME
- Cumberland Congregational Church — 8.8 mi away in Cumberland Center, ME
- Blue Point Congregational Church — 8.9 mi away in Scarborough, ME