First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Gouverneur, NY 13642. It is one of 18 churches in Gouverneur.
Gouverneur, NY, 13642First 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 — 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
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (13.7–32.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Child Poverty: 25.1% (12.1–38.1%)
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.3–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Life Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gouverneur Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mercy Point Church Gouverneur — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
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