Channing Memorial Church
Channing Memorial Church is a Congregational church at 135 Pelham Street in Newport, RI 02840. It is one of 30 churches in Newport, and one of 3 Congregational congregations in the city.
Channing Memorial Church is a Unitarian Universalist congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Part of Unitarian Universalist Association
135 Pelham Street, Newport, RI, 02840Service times
- Wednesday 6:30pm · evenings
Phone: (401) 846-0643 · Website: http://www.channingchurch.org/
Channing Memorial Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 2 congregations of the Unitarian Universalist family gather across Rhode Island — 98 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 Channing Memorial Church
- Religious Education
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The community around Channing Memorial Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 9.5% (1.6–17.6%)
- Social Isolation: 30.8%
- Depression: 23.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 1,045 residents.
Churches near Channing Memorial Church
- Saint Marys Church — 0.1 mi away
- Nhà thờ Công giáo St. Mary — 0.1 mi away
- St. Mary Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newport Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seamens Church Institute of Newport — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Newport Community Church — 0.3 mi away
More Unitarian Universalist churches nearby
- Unitarian Church in Fall River — 17.2 mi away in Fall River, MA
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