First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Marion, OH 43302. It is one of 114 churches in Marion.
Marion, OH, 43302Shares a ministry location with Shining Light Baptist Church.
First Church of Christ Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 46 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across Ohio — 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Depression: 30.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (12.8–36.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (3.6–18.3%)
- Child Poverty: 22.1% (11.1–33.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Marion city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 786 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Shining Light Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Salem United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Be Church — 0.1 mi away
- HOPE Family Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Genesis — 0.2 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 17 mi away in Bucyrus, OH
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 20.1 mi away in Galion, OH