First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Binghamton, NY 13905. It is one of 97 churches in Binghamton.
Binghamton, NY, 13905Shares a ministry location with New Heights Ministries Church.
First Church of Christ Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 71 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across New York — 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of the children here are growing up 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.
- Poverty Rate: 56.5%
- Child Poverty: 50.6% (34.7–66.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Binghamton city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 850 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- New Heights Ministries Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sub Terra Church — 0.4 mi away
- Park Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Salvation Army — 0.5 mi away
- English Lutheran Church of the Redeemer — 0.5 mi away
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