First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a Congregational church in Jamestown, NY 14701. It is one of 60 churches in Jamestown.

Jamestown, NY, 14701

First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 107 congregations of the Congregational family gather across New York — 2,948 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 Congregational Church

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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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.

  • Child Poverty: 55.2% (40.9–69.5%)
  • Poverty Rate: 39.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 29.7%
  • Obesity: 42.7%
  • Social Isolation: 32.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
  • Diabetes: 16.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
  • Unemployment: 10.3% (6.0–14.6%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Jamestown city is served by 35 churches — about one congregation for every 819 residents.

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