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Service Times
Regular worship is at 10:00 AM on Sunday mornings. Holy Communion is offered the first Sunday of each month. During the course of the year we offer special worship services including, but not limited to:
Maundy Thursday / Seder
Holden Worship / Thursday through Lent
Good Friday
Palm Sunday
Christmas Eve / Traditional
Bluegrass Worship / Twice a year
We invite everyone to participate. Several of these worship times include a simple meal before or after the service. Please watch HIGHLIGHTS and our online calendar for full details through the year.
(509) 525-8753
The Rev.Adam Kirtley
Our Mission
We are a congregation of diverse Christian believers, empowered by love and guided by the Holy Spirit. It is our mission to enable personal spiritual growth, collective outreach to the community, and stewardship of God's creation.
We are a Progressive Christian Church
By calling ourselves progressive, we mean we are Christians who...
• Have found an approach to God through the life and teachings of Jesus.
• Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God's realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us.
• Understand the sharing of bread and wine in Jesus's name to be a representation of an ancient vision of God's feast for all
peoples
• Invite all people to participate in our community and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order to be
acceptable (including but not limited to):
- believers and agnostics,
- conventional Christians and questioning skeptics,
- women and men,
- those of all sexual orientations and gender identities,
- those of all races and cultures,
- those of all classes and abilities,
- those who hope for a better world and those who have lost hope
• Know that the way we behave toward one another and toward other people is the fullest expression of what we believe.
• Find more grace in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty - more value in questioning than in absolutes.
• Form ourselves into communities dedicated to equipping one another for the work we feel called to do: striving for peace and
justice among all people, protecting and restoring the integrity of all God's creation, and bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers
• Recognize that being followers of Jesus is costly, and entails selfless love, conscientious resistance to evil, and renunciation of privilege.
Open and Affirming without regard to sexual orientation
The United Church of Christ is a non-creedal and non-dogmatic church. As a progressive church, we are open to new ideas and are accepting of the ideas and behavior of others. We learn from each other as well as from our ancestors in faith. We truly believe there is much more truth to break forth from God's Word.
As an Open and Affirming Congregation of the United Church of Christ, we are a diverse group of people who have known the joy of having been accepted and affirmed by God and by one another. Our congregation is made up of persons of different ages, education, races, abilities, and sexual orientations. We hold varying theological and political beliefs and come from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. As a church community, we celebrate and find strength in that diversity and view it as a way to understand the inclusiveness of God's love.
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About First Congregational Church - United Church of Christ
Welcome to First Congregational Church! We welcome all persons into the life of the church, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or identification, or mental or physical disabilities.
We are a congregation of diverse Christian believers empowered by love and guided by the Holy Spirit. It is our mission to enable personal spiritual growth, collective outreach to the community, and stewardship of God's creation. We are an open and affirming church. No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, YOU are welcome here!
Denomination / Affiliation:
United Church of Christ
Dress Style:
casual
Average Age of Attendees:
all-ages
MINISTRIES AND GROUPS
Church Ministries
Kids
Youth
College
Singles
Men’s
Women’s
Sunday School
Adult
Small Groups
Recovery Group
Choir
Groups and Public Services
Counseling Services
Weddings and Receptions
Funerals
The work of the Board of Mission and Social Concerns is to foster awareness of human needs and to answer these needs. Our goal is to involve all members and friends of our congregation in this outreach. Our church reflects the passion of our members for helping others locally, nationally, and globally as we have done, as a center of faith and service, for 150 years, and as we have pledged to do well into the future. The board works to provide education and leadership for this goal. At every opportunity we aim to reach out to improve the quality of life for people in our community and in our world, and to help in whatever ways we are able.
Our goals for the coming years
• Actively participate in the work and financial needs of Helpline, our local coordinating agency for helping local people in need.
• Plan, cook, and serve monthly meals at the Christian Aid Center. Our goal is to involve an increasing number of our congregation in this work. We donate magazines and books, and offer aid to the Christian Aid Center as needs arise.
• Promote understanding and implementation of our role as an open and affirming church, in coordination with the educational outreach of our active ..And Affirming committee.
Provide increasingly active outreach to the Latino community in the Walla Walla valley through a coordinated program and through actions of our leaders and members.
• Bring attention to local, national, and global issues of social justice and offer active plans to help our congregation become involved.
• Offer the use of our church facilities as meeting sites to many local 12-step programs. See the schedule of meetings on the Community Services page.
• Donate to and work with our local Pantry Shelf.
• Hold rummage sales twice yearly and donate the proceeds to mission and outreach needs.
• Adopt a dozen families during the Christmas season and provide each person with gifts and the family with a generous food basket for the holidays and the weeks after.
• Actively advocate and work for economic justice and world peace.
• Generously support the United Church of Christ in their support of the needy in the United States and worldwide.
BELIEFS
We are a congregation of diverse Christian believers, empowered by love and guided by the Holy Spirit. It is our mission to enable personal spiritual growth, collective outreach to the community, and stewardship of God's creation.
We are a Progressive Christian Church
By calling ourselves progressive, we mean we are Christians who...
• Have found an approach to God through the life and teachings of Jesus.
• Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God's realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us.
• Understand the sharing of bread and wine in Jesus's name to be a representation of an ancient vision of God's feast for all
peoples
• Invite all people to participate in our community and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order to be
acceptable (including but not limited to):
- believers and agnostics,
- conventional Christians and questioning skeptics,
- women and men,
- those of all sexual orientations and gender identities,
- those of all races and cultures,
- those of all classes and abilities,
- those who hope for a better world and those who have lost hope
• Know that the way we behave toward one another and toward other people is the fullest expression of what we believe.
• Find more grace in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty - more value in questioning than in absolutes.
• Form ourselves into communities dedicated to equipping one another for the work we feel called to do: striving for peace and
justice among all people, protecting and restoring the integrity of all God's creation, and bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers
• Recognize that being followers of Jesus is costly, and entails selfless love, conscientious resistance to evil, and renunciation of privilege.
Open and Affirming without regard to sexual orientation
The United Church of Christ is a non-creedal and non-dogmatic church. As a progressive church, we are open to new ideas and are accepting of the ideas and behavior of others. We learn from each other as well as from our ancestors in faith. We truly believe there is much more truth to break forth from God's Word.
As an Open and Affirming Congregation of the United Church of Christ, we are a diverse group of people who have known the joy of having been accepted and affirmed by God and by one another. Our congregation is made up of persons of different ages, education, races, abilities, and sexual orientations. We hold varying theological and political beliefs and come from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. As a church community, we celebrate and find strength in that diversity and view it as a way to understand the inclusiveness of God's love.
Baptism:
Both
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First Congregational Church - United Church of Christ is a Christian Church located in Zip Code 99362.
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