First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 120 churches in Parkersburg.
Parkersburg, WV, 26101First Church of Christ Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 4 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across West Virginia — 992 across the United States on The Church Map.
Christian Science, Unity, Religious Science, Swedenborgian and Spiritualist congregations use Christian Scripture and Christian language, and read both through convictions about mind, healing, and an indwelling divine that historic Christian teaching does not share. Reference sources genuinely disagree on whether to file them as Christian at all; this map lists them and leaves the question open.
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The community around First Church of Christ Scientist
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.3% (36.3–74.6%)
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Depression: 35.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (16.9–34.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.9%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (3.7–14.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- The Journey on Park Avenue — 0.1 mi away
- Baptist Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Parkersburg Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of His Presence - Parkersburg — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Street Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Life Church — 0.4 mi away
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