Where is First Congregational Church located?

First Congregational Church is at 345 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI, 49007.

What time are services at First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church meets Sunday at 10am. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church in Kalamazoo, MI is a Congregational church.

First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a Congregational church at 345 West Michigan Avenue in Kalamazoo, MI 49007. It is one of 171 churches in Kalamazoo.

Wheelchair accessible

345 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI, 49007

Service times

Sunday 10am

Phone: (269) 343-1549 · Website: https://firstcongregationalkzoo.org/

Shares a ministry location with Messiah Sing Kalamazoo and North Presbyterian Church and Phoenix Community Church UCC.

First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 99 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Michigan — 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.

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The community around First Congregational Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

Child Poverty: 96.4%
Poverty Rate: 43.5%
Food Insecurity: 26.0%
Obesity: 44.1%
Social Isolation: 37.3%
Depression: 31.9%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
Unemployment: 10.0% (3.6–16.4%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
Transportation Barriers: 14.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Kalamazoo city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 2,845 residents.

Churches near First Congregational Church

Phoenix Community Church UCC — 0 mi away
Messiah Sing Kalamazoo — 0 mi away
North Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Zion Temple of the Apostolic Faith Church Worldwide — 0.1 mi away
First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
St Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
Faith Temple Church of God — 0.2 mi away
Saint Augustine Cathedral — 0.2 mi away

More Congregational churches nearby

Phoenix Community Church — 2.2 mi away
Portage United Church of Christ — 4.6 mi away in Portage, MI
Unitarian Universalist Community Church — 8.8 mi away in Portage, MI

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