First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Newburgh, NY 12550. It is one of 78 churches in Newburgh.
Newburgh, NY, 12550First 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
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 a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than 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: 39.6% (24.2–55.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (0.8–13.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newburgh city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 927 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Best Temple Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista del Septimo dia de Newburg — 0.1 mi away
- Dutch Reformed Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newburgh Tabernacle Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newburgh Girl Power — 0.2 mi away
- Saint George's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
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