Where is First Congregational Church located?

First Congregational Church is at 1 Church Street, Essex Junction, VT, 05452.

What time are services at First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church meets Sunday at 10:15am (School Yes September to June Faith Formation program is held). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church in Essex Junction, VT is a United Church Of Christ church.

First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 1 Church Street in Essex Junction, VT 05452. It is one of 12 churches in Essex Junction.

We build relationships with God, each other, the community, and the world through prayer, worship, fellowship, education, outreach, and service.

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1 Church Street, Essex Junction, VT, 05452

Service times

Sunday 10:15am · School Yes September to June Faith Formation program is held

Phone: (802) 879-6552 · Website: https://www.fccej.org/v5/

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 — 2,930 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

Food pantry
Thrift shop
Vacation Bible Camp

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The community around First Congregational Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. 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.

Depression: 26.5%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Essex Junction city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 1,330 residents.

Churches near First Congregational Church

Cavalry Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
All Nations For Jesus Christ Church — 0.4 mi away
Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
Grace United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
Vermont Korean American United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
CityReach Church — 1.1 mi away
Saint Lawrence Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
St. Timothy Anglican Church — 1.2 mi away in Williston, VT

More Congregational churches nearby

First Congregational Church — 5.1 mi away in Burlington, VT
JCC Sunday School Building — 6.9 mi away in Jericho, VT
Jericho Congregational Church — 6.9 mi away in Jericho, VT
Malletts Bay Congregational Church — 8 mi away in Colchester, VT
Congregational Church of South Hero — 14.2 mi away in South Hero, VT

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