St John's United Church of Christ
St John's United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 117 N 8th St in Shamokin, PA 17872-5608. It is one of 23 churches in Shamokin.
Serving since 1957 · Services in Spanish
117 N 8th St, Shamokin, PA, 17872-5608Phone: +15706486101 · Website: http://www.ucc.org
St John's United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 368 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Pennsylvania — 2,948 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.
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Upcoming events at St John's United Church of Christ
- Thu, Aug 6 · 3:30 PM: Fostering Vitality: Liturgical Resources for a Faithful & Vital Church — Zoom
- Tue, Aug 11 · 4 PM: Be Prophetic, Not Partisan: Election Engagement 101 for Congregations — Zoom
- Wed, Aug 12 · 1 PM: Can Advocacy with Congress Still Accomplish Anything? — Zoom
- Thu, Aug 13 · 3:30 PM: Economic Justice: Love Our Laborers as Yourself — Zoom
- Wed, Aug 19 · 3 PM: Money, Ministry, and Meaning: Financial Wellness as an Act of Pastoral Self-care — Zoom
From St John's United Church of Christ's public calendar (http://www.ucc.org). Times are the church's local time.
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The community around St John's United Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Depression: 28.8%
- Poverty Rate: 27.3% (15.9–38.7%)
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St John's United Church of Christ
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Seventh Street Primitive Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mother Cabrini Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shamokin Mission Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Transfiguration of Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Salem United Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away in Coal Township, PA
- Saint Pauls Church — 2.8 mi away
- Grace United Church of Christ — 7.6 mi away in Mount Carmel, PA
- United Church of Christ — 10 mi away in Hegins, PA
- Christ Church United Church of Christ — 10.7 mi away in Hegins, PA
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