Where everyone is welcome...NO EXCEPTIONS!
Welcome to Central Congregational Church United Church of Christ
An Open and Affirming Congregation
WELCOME
You are Welcome Here...
We are officially an ONA Church - Open and Affirming.
You are welcome here. You are celebrated here with all the diversity you bring in race, background, country of origin, beliefs and doubts, class, education, age, abilities. You are celebrated here with all the diversity you bring in gender orientation, gender identity; our LGB TQ+ siblings you are welcome here ….
In a world where it sometimes feels unsafe to be who you are you are safe here;
You are seen here
This is God’s home
This is sacred space
God is here with us and we are here with God.
We are a people who honor God experienced by us as father and mother, Christ and Holy Spirit, but we don’t have a religious test for participation. So come with your beliefs, questions and doubts. Just come…with an open heart to where God is still speaking in your life and ours.
Because, we seek to honor the dignity of every human being, speak the truth to one another in love, listen with compassionate hearts and walk humbly with each other and our God. We’re not perfect, neither are you, and you don’t need to be.
So bring your traumas and triumphs, your fears and fervor, your anxieties and awakenings, your worries and weariness, your joys and laughter.
Bring the sounds of children and the sounds of silence and the songs we sing together.
You are welcome here, you are safe here, you are loved here, you are home here.
About Us
Worship
Please join us - no matter your age or stage in life - young families, singles, seniors, empty-nesters or young adult - there's a place for you here at Central Congregational Church.
Come and see!
Worship is held at 10:00 am each Sunday in the Sanctuary September through Memorial Day.
Join us for Worship at 9:30am June - August in our Air-Conditioned Sanctuary.
Our Church building is easily accessible and air-conditioned.
We have plenty of accessible parking and an elevator
with trained staff to assist you.
Join us - come as you are! You are welcome here!
THE ANNUAL PUMPKIN PATCH RETURNS!
PUMPKIN PATCH 2026
The new batch of Pumpkins and Gourds has arrived!
Please contact the Church at centralucc@verizon.net for more information.
Volunteers will be needed everyday throughout the month of October.
The link to sign up online to Volunteer to work at the Patch this year is:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0B4FA4A923A7F94-65542004-copy
SALE HOURS:
M-F 2-6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm
Thanks so much! We look forward to seeing you again this October!
Pastor's Ponderings
October 2026 -
If people don’t come to church it is either because ...
1. the church does not have anything to offer them at their deepest level of need
2. the church has something they love and need at the deepest level and they don’t know it.
(Where “Know” includes awareness, trust, and believing; actions, not words).
After over 40 years of observing, experiencing and researching church vitality and church decline I suspect the heart of it boils down to that. And such a binary is never as simple as it seems. I also follow an insight from Simon Sinek that people “don’t care what you do until they know why you do it”. The focus is not on getting people to know what we do. It is not about advertising, invitation or attraction. It is about understanding the deepest level of longing and need that people have. And that is complicated because, while we as human beings have some common deep levels of need, we are also diverse. The way one understands, experiences and seeks that need depends on their gender, age, ethnicity, culture, locale, orientation, conditioning and psychology (and this is likely an incomplete list). And no church can be all things to all people. I think that is why Jesus spoke about ‘the least of these’ and ‘planting seeds’ rather than forming a community, building a movement or starting a church.
We have a powerful “Welcome Statement” that we put in our bulletin each week. It speaks to a lot of deep needs. It may not speak to everyone; it doesn’t have to. And it won’t speak at all if it is words and not actions. I think that is the ministry to which Jesus continues to call us: living out the deepest level of what we claim as we engage in the community and world around us.
