All are welcomed to join us for Sunday Worship Service at 11 am. We hope the following will provide an introduction to our beliefs and structure as a Congregational church.
Our Church Constitution / By-Laws Follow:
The object of this church shall be to bind together followers of Jesus Christ for the purpose of sharing in the worship of God and in making His will dominant in the lives of all, individually and collectively, especially as that will is set forth in the life, teachings and death of Jesus Christ.
This church acknowledges Jesus Christ as its head and finds in the Holy scriptures, its guidance in matters of faith and discipline. The government of this church is vested in its members, who exercise the right of control in all its affairs, subject in legal matters to the Articles or Incorporation granted it by the general corporation law and the religious corporation law of the State of New York. While this church is accountable to no ecclesiastical judicatory, it accepts the obligations of mutual council and cooperation involved in the free fellowship of the Congregational and Christian churches, and pledges itself to share in their common aims and work.
This church recognizes the Bible as the sufficient rule of faith and practice, and holds that living in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ is the true test of fellowship. Each member shall have the undisturbed right to follow the Word of God according to the dictates of their own conscience, under the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
The following statement of faith (or principles), therefore, is not a test but an expression of the spirit in which the church interprets the Word of God.
FAITH - We believe in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, goodness, and love; and in Jesus Christ, His Son, our Lord and Savior, who for us and our salvation lived and died and rose again and liveth evermore; and in the Holy Spirit, who taketh of the things of Christ and revealeth them to us, renewing, comforting, and inspiring the souls of men.
COVENANT - 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, made known or to be made known to us. We hold it to be the mission of the Church of Christ to proclaim the gospel to all mankind, exhalting 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. Depending, as did our fathers, 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 righteousness and the life everlasting.