Where is First Congregational Church located?

First Congregational Church is at 38 South Winooski Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05401.

What time are services at First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church meets Sunday at 9:30am (in summer for Festival Worship). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church in Burlington, VT is a Congregational church.

First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a Congregational church at 38 South Winooski Avenue in Burlington, VT 05401. It is one of 34 churches in Burlington.

Fully accessible

38 South Winooski Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05401

Service times

Sunday 9:30am · in summer for Festival Worship

Phone: (802) 862-5010 · Website: http://www.firstchurchburlington.org/

First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 50 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Vermont — 2,928 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.

Ministries at First Congregational Church

Possibility Shop
Joint Urban Ministry Project (JUMP)
Peace Camp

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The community around First Congregational Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is 2,500 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.

Poverty Rate: 44.9%
Depression: 34.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Burlington city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 1,941 residents.

Churches near First Congregational Church

First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
One Church Street Partnership — 0.1 mi away
Burlington Disciples — 0.2 mi away in Essex Junction, VT
College Street Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
St Andrews Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception — 0.2 mi away
First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Free Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
St. Joseph's Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph — 0.3 mi away

More Congregational churches nearby

First Congregational Church — 5.1 mi away in Essex Junction, VT
Malletts Bay Congregational Church — 5.3 mi away in Colchester, VT
JCC Sunday School Building — 11.8 mi away in Jericho, VT
Jericho Congregational Church — 11.8 mi away in Jericho, VT
Congregational Church of South Hero — 12.1 mi away in South Hero, VT

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