WHO IS THE UCC?

Welcome to   the United Church of Christ (UCC)-- a community of faith that seeks to respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed.   The UCC was founded in 1957 as the union of several different Christian traditions.

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.  

The UCC is one of the most diverse Christian churches in the United States.   The basic unit of the United Church of Christ is the congregation.   Members of each congregation covenant with one another and with God as revealed in Jesus Christ   and empowered by the Holy Spirit.   These congregations, in turn, exist in covenantal relationships with one another to form larger structures for more effective work.   Our covenanting emphasizes trustful relationships rather than legal agreements.

Our motto--"that they may all be one"--is Jesus' prayer for the unity of the church.   This verse from Scripture reflects our historic commitment to the restoration of unity among the separated churches of Jesus Christ.

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COVENANT OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF CHATSWORTH

We are united in striving to know the will of God as taught in the Holy Scriptures, and in our purpose to walk in the ways of the Lord, known or to be made known to us.   We hold it to be the mission of the Church to proclaim the gospel to all mankind, exalting the worship of the one true God and laboring for the progress of knowledge, the promotion of justice, the reign of peace, and the realization of human brotherhood and sisterhood.   Depending, as did our ancestors, upon the continued guidance of the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth, we work and pray for the transformation of the world into the kingdom of God, and we look with faith for the triumph of right-eousness and the life everlasting.