First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a Christ Scientist church at 325 West Mountain Avenue in Las Cruces, NM 88005. It is one of 165 churches in Las Cruces.
325 West Mountain Avenue, Las Cruces, NM, 88005Phone: (575) 523-5063
First Church of Christ Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 7 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across New Mexico — 992 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Poverty Rate: 30.7% (21.5–39.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (6.3–23.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (5.0–15.1%)
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Las Cruces city is served by 96 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mountain View Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- RCCG River of Living Water Parish Las Cruces — 0.2 mi away
- Unity Church of Las Cruces — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Latter Rain Harvest Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul's United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church Las Cruces — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Outreach Las Cruces — 0.4 mi away
- Templo La Hermosa — 0.4 mi away
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