Christian Science Reading Room
Christian Science Reading Room is a church at 1601 1st Ave in Middletown, OH 45044-4125. It is one of 105 churches in Middletown.
1601 1st Ave, Middletown, OH, 45044-4125Phone: 15134227763 · Website: https://christianscience.com/prayer-and-health/inspirational-media/publications
Christian Science Reading Room 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 Christian Science Reading Room
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 adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 49.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Poverty Rate: 38.7% (28.4–48.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (4.4–21.5%)
- Child Poverty: 37.3% (23.5–51.2%)
- Depression: 29.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Christian Science Reading Room
- Restored Church-Middletown — 0.1 mi away
- Faith United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Berachah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First Church Middletown — 0.5 mi away
- Crosspointe Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away