First Christian Church
First Christian Church is a Church Of Christ church at 300 Railroad Ave in Appalachia, VA 24216. It is one of 6 churches in Appalachia.
Serving since 1948
300 Railroad Ave, Appalachia, VA, 24216Phone: (276) 565-0257 · Website: https://christianstandard.com/places/first-christian-church-16/
First Christian Church is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 253 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Virginia — 10,488 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.
Ministries at First Christian Church
- Missions Support
- 3:18 Ministries
- Appalachia Service Project
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The community around First Christian Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 45.4% (27.1–63.7%)
- Obesity: 45.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.4% (13.4–31.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.6–14.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Christian Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Appalachia United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Harvest of Praise Church — 0.5 mi away
- Thee Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- New Hope Assembly of God — 2.4 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Heritage Church of God — 2.4 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Bethesda Church of God — 2.5 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 2.6 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
More Restorationist churches nearby
- Pound Church of Christ — 15.2 mi away in Pound, VA
- Church of Christ — 21.3 mi away in Gate City, VA
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