First United Church of Christ
First United Church of Christ is a church in Akron, OH 44320. It is one of 431 churches in Akron.
Akron, OH, 44320Shares a ministry location with Garden City Church.
First United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 285 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Ohio — 2,928 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 United Church of Christ
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Obesity: 50.2%
- Food Insecurity: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (15.8–42.8%)
- Depression: 27.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.6–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near First United Church of Christ
- Garden City Church — 0 mi away
- City of Joy — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Apostolic Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Mercy Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
- Stone's Deliverance Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Church in Akron — 0.5 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- House of Prayer for All People — 0.5 mi away
- Akron Christian Reformed Church — 0.5 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- East Market Street United Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
- Fairlawn West United Church of Christ — 2.7 mi away
- Willard United Church of Christ — 2.7 mi away
- Bethany United Church of Christ — 3.9 mi away in Cuyahoga Falls, OH