First Church of God

First Church of God is a Church Of God church at 5th St in New Haven, WV 25265. It is one of 3 churches in New Haven.

In 1955 a young woman named Bertha Jacobs and her family moved to New Haven from Darlington, S.C. Found there was no Church of God in New Haven and having a message in her heart preached by her father, Rev. Ivory Williams “Go Into the World and Identify Yourself”. Sister Jacobs sought others to help her start a work in New Haven.

5th St, New Haven, WV, 25265

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am · Morning worship

Phone: (304) 882-2190 · Website: https://www.fcognewhaven.org/services

First Church of God is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 128 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across West Virginia — 16,682 across the United States on The Church Map.

Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.

Ministries at First Church of God

  • Bible Study
  • New Believers Class

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The community around First Church of God

It takes 2.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Obesity: 42.6%
  • Social Isolation: 34.3%
  • Depression: 30.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
  • Diabetes: 17.1%
  • Child Poverty: 25.1% (10.5–39.8%)
  • Poverty Rate: 20.1% (13.4–26.7%)
  • Food Insecurity: 18.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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