First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Church of Christ, Scientist is a church at 64 N French Broad Ave in Asheville, NC 28801-2602. It is one of 225 churches in Asheville.
64 N French Broad Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801-2602Phone: +18282521787 · Website: http://www.christianscienceasheville.com/
First Church of Christ, Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 11 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across North Carolina — 991 across the United States on The Church Map.
Christian Science, Unity, Religious Science, Swedenborgian and Spiritualist congregations use Christian Scripture and Christian language, and read both through convictions about mind, healing, and an indwelling divine that historic Christian teaching does not share. Reference sources genuinely disagree on whether to file them as Christian at all; this map lists them and leaves the question open.
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The community around First Church of Christ, Scientist
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 34.0% (22.4–45.6%)
- Obesity: 37.1%
- Social Isolation: 31.0%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
- Food Insecurity: 19.7%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (2.8–25.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Church of Christ, Scientist
- Basilica of Saint Lawrence — 0.2 mi away
- Summit Church — 0.2 mi away
- WNC Baptist Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 0.2 mi away
- The Haywood Street Congregation — 0.3 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church of Asheville — 0.3 mi away
- Hill Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beulah Chapel — 0.4 mi away
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