Christian Science Reading Room
Christian Science Reading Room is a church at 406 Middle St in New Bern, NC 28560-4931. It is one of 135 churches in New Bern.
Welcome to our lovely church, located in the historic district of downtown Wilmington.
Serving since 1907
406 Middle St, New Bern, NC, 28560-4931Phone: 12526386269 · Website: https://ncchristianscience.org/wilmington/
Shares a ministry location with First Church of Christ, Scientist.
Christian Science Reading Room 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.
Ministries at Christian Science Reading Room
- Sunday School
- Reading Room
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The community around Christian Science Reading Room
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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (13.1–36.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (4.4–22.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Christian Science Reading Room
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Pauls Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Free Will Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church Children's & Youth Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of New Bern — 0.2 mi away
- St Cyprian's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Peter AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
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