First United Church of Christ

First United Church of Christ is a church at 68651 South Forest Avenue in Richmond, MI 48062. It is one of 11 churches in Richmond.

68651 South Forest Avenue, Richmond, MI, 48062

First United Church of Christ 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 United Church of Christ

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.

  • Obesity: 40.3%
  • Social Isolation: 33.8%
  • Child Poverty: 31.7% (15.5–47.8%)
  • Depression: 29.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.4% (14.4–32.4%)
  • Unemployment: 8.4% (0.0–17.7%)
  • Food Insecurity: 19.6%
  • Diabetes: 13.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Richmond city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 836 residents.

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