Welcome, Friends and Visitors!
Welcome to the website for First Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, DC! We are a Just Peace, Open and Affirming (ONA), Multiracial and Multicultural Church that has been serving downtown Washington DC since 1865! First Congregational Church has been located on the corner of 10th and G Streets, NW, but we are sojourning while the site is redeveloped. (The Church is to be rebuilt on the same site.)
During construction, the congregation, including its social programs, will continue at First Trinity Lutheran Church at the corner of 4th and E Streets (near the Judiciary Square Metro). Parking is available in the court lot across the street.
Sunday Worship Service
Bible Workbench: 12 pm
Choir and child care: 12:30 pm
Sunday school worship: 12:30 pm
Worship service: 1 pm
Fellowship hour: 2 pm
Adult nurture: 2:30 pm
Finding Community: A Spiritual Home
At First Church, we are a close community in the heart of the city, drawing people from the wider metropolitan area and coming together for the common good. We are people who need a spiritual home, a place of acceptance and love and respect, where we can be ourselves and become more. Together we have come to know the presence of God. We have come to count on each other. And we work with many others for a better world.
Joined in Covenant: Communion for All
All members have been baptized and willingly join in this covenant which makes us a church:
In grateful response to the call of Jesus Christ, we covenant with God and with each other to be a Church of Christ. We bind ourselves, in God’s redeeming presence, to walk together in ways revealed to us by the Holy Spirit in sacrament and Word, study and prayer, fellowship and mission.
Communion at First church is open to everyone. Our invitation to communion says something about who we are as a people and a church:
We come to this table not because we must, but because we may; not because we are strong, but because we are weak. Not because we have any claim on God’s blessing, but because we stand in constant need of God’s mercy. We come not to express an opinion but to seek a presence and pray for a Spirit.
Each church in the United Church of Christ is autonomous, linked together by covenant. All authority is vested in the congregation. We are Christian, and yet jealously guard freedom of conscience. We believe in testimonies, not tests of faith.
