High Country United Church of Christ
High Country United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 8233 US Highway 421 N in Vilas, NC 28692-8912. It is one of 15 churches in Vilas.
We are committed to our vision that we believe reflects God’s challenge to us to be a community of faith that is inclusive, to offer unconditional safety and acceptance, to create an open and thoughtful atmosphere for welcome, and to be active in the world, working and advocating for justice and pea
We believe that church is a place where everyone should feel an extravagant welcome.
Part of The Western North Carolina Association
8233 US Highway 421 N, Vilas, NC, 28692-8912Service times
- Sunday 11am · morning
Phone: +18282636138 · Website: https://highcountryucc.org/
High Country 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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The community around High Country United Church of Christ
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 33.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Depression: 30.0%
- Food Insecurity: 16.7% (12.8–21.7%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.7–11.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near High Country United Church of Christ
- Grace Highlands Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cove Creek Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Villas, NC
- Vanderpool Church — 1.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Henson Chapel United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Zionville, NC
- Hinsons Chapel Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Willowdale Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Rich Mountain Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Boone, NC
- Willow Valley Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Bairds Creek Presbyterian Church — 3 mi away
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