First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a United church at 7 Eustis Parkway in Waterville, ME 04901. It is one of 25 churches in Waterville.
7 Eustis Parkway, Waterville, ME, 04901First Congregational Church is part of the Ecumenical, union and community churches family of churches in The American Church Story. 4 congregations of the Ecumenical, union and community churches family gather across Maine — 73 across the United States on The Church Map.
Union and community churches are the living proof that traditions can share a building, a pastor, and a table. In small towns across America they kept the doors open by becoming one congregation instead of three struggling ones — and no one had to stop being who they were.
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The community around First Congregational Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 43.5% (26.3–60.6%)
- Social Isolation: 32.2%
- Depression: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 28.8% (19.4–38.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (3.4–14.9%)
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Food Insecurity: 18.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waterville city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 1,315 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Holy Archangels Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Getchell Street United Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sacred Heart — 0.6 mi away
- Waterville UCC — 0.6 mi away
- Pleasant Street United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Beginnings Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Set Free Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Joseph's Maronite Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away