First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Wilmington, NC 28401. It is one of 266 churches in Wilmington.
Wilmington, NC, 28401Shares a ministry location with Christian Science Church of Wilmington, NC.
First Church of Christ Scientist 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.
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The community around First Church of Christ Scientist
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 35.4% (23.0–47.8%)
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (11.1–26.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Wilmington city is served by 93 churches — about one congregation for every 1,174 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Christian Science Church of Wilmington, NC — 0 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Harbor Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ekklesia United Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Andrews Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wilmington Spanish SDA Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- The Bridge Church — 0.4 mi away
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