The Episcopal Church of the Ascension
The Episcopal Church of the Ascension is a Episcopal/Anglican church at 726 1st Ave NW in Hickory, NC 28601-6062. It is one of 165 churches in Hickory.
As Episcopalians, we are followers of Jesus Christ, and both our worship and our mission are in Christ’s name.
726 1st Ave NW, Hickory, NC, 28601-6062Phone: +18283285393 · Website: https://www.ascensionhickory.org/
The Episcopal Church of the Ascension is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 174 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across North Carolina — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
Ministries at The Episcopal Church of the Ascension
- Alcoholics Anonymous
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Latest from Church of the Ascension - Hickory's YouTube channel: August 9, 2026 - Worship Livestream - Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (all videos).
The community around The Episcopal Church of the Ascension
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Child Poverty: 27.5% (15.3–40.2%)
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Food Insecurity: 18.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (10.2–24.6%)
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (8.4–19.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near The Episcopal Church of the Ascension
- Rehoboth Family Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Hickory — 0.3 mi away
- Vintage City Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Hickory — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Hickory Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian — 0.6 mi away
- Westview United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Morning Star First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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