First Congregational United Church of Christ

First Congregational United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 611 Ray St in Kings Mountain, NC 28086. It is one of 78 churches in Kings Mountain.

Serving since 1957 · Services in Spanish

611 Ray St, Kings Mountain, NC, 28086

Phone: +17047398401 · Website: http://www.ucc.org

Shares a ministry location with Carson Memorial Church.

First Congregational United Church of Christ 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.

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Upcoming events at First Congregational United Church of Christ

  • Thu, Aug 6 · 3:30 PM: Fostering Vitality: Liturgical Resources for a Faithful & Vital Church — Zoom
  • Tue, Aug 11 · 4 PM: Be Prophetic, Not Partisan: Election Engagement 101 for Congregations — Zoom
  • Wed, Aug 12 · 1 PM: Can Advocacy with Congress Still Accomplish Anything? — Zoom
  • Thu, Aug 13 · 3:30 PM: Economic Justice: Love Our Laborers as Yourself — Zoom
  • Wed, Aug 19 · 3 PM: Money, Ministry, and Meaning: Financial Wellness as an Act of Pastoral Self-care — Zoom

From First Congregational United Church of Christ's public calendar (http://www.ucc.org). Times are the church's local time.

The community around First Congregational United Church of Christ

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 34.4%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (10.5–23.0%)
  • Unemployment: 9.3% (2.5–16.2%)
  • Obesity: 37.9%
  • Depression: 25.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.8% (8.2–27.5%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
  • Diabetes: 13.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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