East Market Street United Church of Christ
East Market Street United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 292 E Market St in Akron, OH 44308-2016. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 4 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
Serving since 1904
292 E Market St, Akron, OH, 44308-2016Service times
- Sunday 9:30am–10:15am · morning -
Phone: +13307844732 · Website: http://www.eastmarketstucc.org/contact-us.html
Shares a ministry location with First Congregational Church.
East Market Street United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 287 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Ohio — 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 East Market Street United Church of Christ
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 adults say they are socially isolated, 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.
- Social Isolation: 43.5%
- Poverty Rate: 40.6%
- Food Insecurity: 33.9%
- Depression: 33.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Child Poverty: 34.9% (14.9–54.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (4.0–14.2%)
- Obesity: 39.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near East Market Street United Church of Christ
- First Congregational Church — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Akron — 0.1 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Akron Chinese Christian Church - 爱城华人基督教会 - ACCC — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Campus Focus — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Remedy Church — 0.4 mi away
- Burning Bush Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Willard United Church of Christ — 1.2 mi away
- First United Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 2 mi away
- Emmanuel United Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
- East Market Street United Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away