First Christian Church
First Christian Church is a Disciples_of_christ church at 344 Church Avenue Southwest in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 315 churches in Roanoke.
Wheelchair accessible
344 Church Avenue Southwest, Roanoke, VA, 24016First Christian Church is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at First Christian Church
- Fellowship Hall Improvements
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The community around First Christian Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Child Poverty: 26.4% (11.1–42.6%)
- Depression: 24.5%
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (12.4–29.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near First Christian Church
- Acts 2 Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Church of the Brethren — 0.1 mi away
- Greene Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Roanoke Quakers — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Our Redeemer Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Congregational Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away