We are a community of 22 churches that seeks to respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ

in word and deed. We are an Association in the Central Atlantic Conference, United Church of Christ.

 The UCC was founded in 1957 as the union of the Congregational Christian Churches and the          Evangelical and Reformed Church. From the beginning of our history we were a church that affirmed   the ideal that Christians did not always have to agree to live together in communion.

 Our motto—"that they may all be one"—is Jesus' prayer for the unity of the church. The UCC is one of the most diverse Christian churches in the United States.

 Please feel free to click on the navigation links above, We have alot of exciting events to offer as well as a full list of churches that are always looking for new members and fresh ideas and a Links page full of great sites to check out. We also have a number of churches that are Open & Affirming. And please fell free to contact us if you have any questions.

"No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you're welcome here!"

UCC Facts:

The UCC is the first denomination to ordain an African American pastor.

"Lemuel Haynes was the first African American ordained by a Protestant denomination. He became a world renowned preacher and writer."

The UCC is the first denomination to ordain a female pastor.

"In 1853 Antoinette Brown was the first woman since New Testament times ordained as a Christian minister, and perhaps the first woman in history elected to serve a Christian congregation as pastor. At her ordination a friend, Methodist minister Luther Lee, defends "a woman's right to preach the Gospel." He quotes the New Testament: "There is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

In 1943 UCC theologian Reinhold Niebuhr introduces the now famous Serenity Prayer:

" God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. .......Amen. "

The UCC is the first mainline protestant denomination to ordain an openly gay minister.

" In 1972 The UCC's Golden Gate Association ordained the first openly gay person as a minister in a mainline Protestant denomination: the Rev. William R. Johnson. In the following three decades, General Synod urges equal rights for homosexual citizens and calls on congregations to welcome gay, lesbian and bisexual members."