First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Newark, OH 43055. It is one of 90 churches in Newark.
Newark, OH, 43055First 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 about a mile of this church, 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 live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Child Poverty: 33.1% (16.6–49.7%)
- Depression: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (13.1–31.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.9%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 976 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Central Church of the Nazarene — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Plymouth United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Legacy Church In Newark, Ohio — 0.4 mi away
- Sixth Street Church of God — 0.4 mi away