First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 216-647-6930330 Second St. in Elyria, OH 44035. It is one of 69 churches in Elyria.
We seek to be good neighbors to those especially who struggle with food insecurity and homelessness.
Our church dates back to the formation and establishment of Elyria, Ohio. Our name, often referred to as "First Church," really is that - Elyria's first organized church.
Serving since 1817 · Elevator
216-647-6930330 Second St., Elyria, OH, 44035Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (216) 647-6930 · Website: https://www.firstcongelyria.org/
First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 286 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Ohio — 2,930 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.
Ministries at First Congregational Church
- Food Pantry
- Meals to Go: Monday Lunch Bunch
- Alcoholics Anonymous
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Latest from First Congregational UCC Elyria's YouTube channel: All Saints Day, 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time. Sunday, November 1, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Congregational Church
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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 38.6% (27.0–50.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
- Food Insecurity: 30.0%
- Diabetes: 23.4%
- Unemployment: 18.5% (9.1–27.9%)
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Elyria city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 1,385 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pulse Elyria — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Mary Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Spread the Word Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- venue church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Elyria Church — 0.3 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Magyar United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim United Church of Christ — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Peter United Church of Christ — 6.4 mi away in Amherst, OH
- Amherst Congregational United Church of Christ — 6.5 mi away in Amherst, OH
- First Church — 7.5 mi away in Oberlin, OH