Where is First Congregational Church located?

First Congregational Church is at 20 Oak St, Asheville, NC, 28801-3004.

What time are services at First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church meets Sunday at 10:30am (Oak Street). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church in Asheville, NC is a United Church Of Christ church. It is one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in Asheville.

First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 20 Oak St in Asheville, NC 28801-3004. It is one of 225 churches in Asheville, and one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.

We are called by faith to care for all Creation.

Wheelchair accessible

20 Oak St, Asheville, NC, 28801-3004

Service times

Sunday 10:30am · Oak Street

Phone: +18282528729 · Website: http://www.uccasheville.org/

First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 86 congregations of the Congregational family gather across North Carolina — 2,948 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 First Congregational Church

Music Ministry
Creation Justice Church

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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. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, 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.

Poverty Rate: 27.7% (17.2–38.3%)
Social Isolation: 30.4%
Depression: 25.7%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%
Food Insecurity: 16.3%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (4.3–22.0%)
Unemployment: 6.9% (0.6–13.2%)

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

Churches near First Congregational Church

First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
St James AME Church — 0.2 mi away
Hopkins Chapel AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
Calvary Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
Ever Learning Faith Ministries — 0.3 mi away
Nazareth First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
Christian Science Reading Room — 0.4 mi away
Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
St Matthias' Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away

More Congregational churches nearby

Land of the Sky United Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away

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