First Church
First Church is a United Church Of Christ church in Oberlin, OH 44074. It is one of 26 churches in Oberlin.
As followers of Jesus, we aspire to minister to one another, our community, and the world.
WELCOME TO THE FIRST CHURCH IN OBERLIN - AN OPEN AND AFFIRMING, JUST PEACE, GLOBAL MISSION, GREEN JUSTICE CHURCH.
Oberlin, OH, 44074Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Friday 1pm
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Phone: (440) 775-1711 · Website: https://firstchurchoberlin.org/
First Church 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.
Ministries at First Church
- Children's Church
- Summer Storytime
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Watch
Latest from First Church in Oberlin's YouTube channel: 2023-05-14: First Church in Oberlin Sunday Service (all videos).
The community around First Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Depression: 27.3%
- Poverty Rate: 19.8% (12.9–26.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Oberlin city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 559 residents.
Churches near First Church
- James Bryant Chapel — 0 mi away
- Congregational Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Peace Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Finney Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Oberlin House of the Lord — 0.5 mi away
- Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 0.5 mi away
- Oberlin House of the Lord — 0.5 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Henrietta United Church of Christ — 6.7 mi away in Wakeman, OH
- Saint Peter United Church of Christ — 6.9 mi away in Amherst, OH
- Amherst Congregational United Church of Christ — 7 mi away in Amherst, OH
- Magyar United Church of Christ — 7.1 mi away in Elyria, OH
- First Congregational Church — 7.5 mi away in Elyria, OH