First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a Congregational church in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 2 Congregational congregations in the city.
Portsmouth, VA, 23704Shares a ministry location with Trinity United Church of Christ.
First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 51 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Virginia — 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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The community around First Congregational Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 39.6%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (0.6–17.1%)
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Tabernacle Church — 0.1 mi away
- Park View Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Great Awakening United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- New Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Bound Worship Center — 0.6 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- The Great Awakening United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Zion Bethel United Church of Christ — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Mark United Church of Christ — 2.2 mi away in Norfolk, VA
- Union United Church of Christ — 2.4 mi away in Norfolk, VA
- South Norfolk Congregational Christian Church — 2.7 mi away in Chesapeake, VA
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