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Congregational Church - Amherst

address:11 Church Street Amherst, NH 03031 phone:603-673-3231 website:Congregational Church - Amherst

We are a local community church in the Protestant Christian tradition in communion with the Church Universal.

We are a 700+ member church of the United Church of Christ (UCC), which consists of more than 6,000 local churches with more than 1,337,000 confirmed members across the United States and around the world. Together, we participate in ministries of personal piety and social responsibility.

Locally, we are a member-church within the New Hampshire Conference of the United Church of Christ, a fellowship of 138 UCC congregations with more than 28,000 confirmed members. And, we are a member-church of the Hillsborough Association of the New Hampshire Conference, a fellowship of 24 congregations within Hillsborough County.

Characteristics of the United Church of Christ and this church can be summarized by the names of our four predecessor denominations.

We are Christian because we declare ourselves to be a part of the body of Christ – the Christian church – continuing the witness of the early disciples to the reality and power of the crucified, risen and ever-present Christ, Jesus of Nazareth.

We are Reformed because all four of our predecessor denominations arose from the witness and tradition of the 16th century Protestant Reformers, confessing the presence and authority of one God, the primacy of the Scriptures, the doctrine of justification by faith, the priesthood of all believers, the principle of Christian freedom, and the celebration of two sacraments: Baptism and Holy Communion.

We are Congregational because the basic unit of the United Church of Christ is the local congregation. Confirmed members of each congregation covenant with one another and with God as revealed in Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

We are Evangelical in that we understand the primary calling of members and churches is to proclaim the gospel or evangel – the “good news” of God’s love. Thus, we proclaim this gospel of Jesus Christ to individual persons and to society in words and deeds. This proclamation is the heart of Sunday morning as we participate in the liturgy that is our worship.