The Great Awakening, United Church of Christ
The Great Awakening, United Church of Christ is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 6049 Indian River Rd in Virginia Beach, VA 23464-3803. It is one of 374 churches in Virginia Beach, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
It is the mission of The Great Awakening to reach the least, the last, and the lost through the love and power of God.
As a Faith Community we believe that all persons are children of God and are created in God's image. We affirm the inherent value, worth, and dignity of all races, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
Serving since 2001 · Wheelchair accessible
6049 Indian River Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23464-3803Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Poverty Rate: 17.1% (7.6–26.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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