Where is First Christian Church located?

First Christian Church is at 1809 El Paseo Road, Las Cruces, NM, 88001.

What denomination is First Christian Church?

First Christian Church in Las Cruces, NM is a United Church Of Christ church.

First Christian Church

First Christian Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 1809 El Paseo Road in Las Cruces, NM 88001. It is one of 165 churches in Las Cruces.

1809 El Paseo Road, Las Cruces, NM, 88001

Phone: (575) 524-3245 · Website: http://www.firstchristianlc.org/

Shares a ministry location with St. John's Catholic Church of Antioch.

First Christian Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 8 congregations of the Congregational family gather across New Mexico — 2,928 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 First Christian Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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: 44.5% (31.5–57.4%)
Food Insecurity: 33.6%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
Social Isolation: 36.7%
Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.2%
Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
Unemployment: 8.8% (1.1–16.5%)
Obesity: 38.5%
Depression: 24.5%
Diabetes: 14.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Las Cruces city is served by 96 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.

Churches near First Christian Church

St. John's Catholic Church of Antioch — 0 mi away
Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.4 mi away
Central Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
Community of Christ — 0.4 mi away
Cross of Christ Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
Movement Church — 0.5 mi away
Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
Church on the Rock — 0.5 mi away
First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
New Seasons Community Church — 0.6 mi away

More Congregational churches nearby

University Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away

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