The Great Awakening United Church of Christ
The Great Awakening United Church of Christ is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1520 High St in Portsmouth, VA 23704-3210. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth.
Our mission is about serving others.
We are a community of believers who love, live, and look like you. We are committed to growing and serving God together in love.
1520 High St, Portsmouth, VA, 23704-3210Service times
- Tuesday 6:30pm
Phone: +17577731301 · Website: https://www.thegreatawakeningucc.com/
The Great Awakening United Church of Christ 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 The Great Awakening United Church of Christ
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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,200 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (15.4–38.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.9–13.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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- Bethel Temple Church — 0.5 mi away
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- Trinity United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
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