Oil City First Church of God

Oil City First Church of God is a Church Of God (Anderson, IN) church in Oil City, PA 16301. It is one of 25 churches in Oil City.

Oil City, PA, 16301

Oil City First Church of God is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 152 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Pennsylvania — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.

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The community around Oil City First Church of God

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. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Unemployment: 8.6% (3.1–14.1%)
  • Obesity: 37.0%
  • Depression: 25.7%
  • Child Poverty: 22.7% (3.0–42.3%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.2% (11.1–27.3%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Oil City city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 1,919 residents.

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