Our Mission and Purpose:
To invite people into a deepening relationship with God so as to raise up disciples of Jesus Christ who make a difference in the world.
We understand healthy individual discipleship to include being:
Uplifted by God’s Love
Nurtured through worship
Inspired through Scripture
Transformed through Prayer
Empowered through Spiritual Friendships
Developed through Service
Our Beliefs
As a part of a united and uniting tradition, there are four statements of faith that shape and inform our theology as a denomination.
From time to time, we have restated our faith to address changing contexts. The four statements below are all recognized equally as "doctrine subordinate to the primacy of Scripture."
United Church doctrine was first formulated as The Twenty Articles in the 1925 Basis of Union—the church's "constitution."
United Church doctrine was amplified in the Statement of Faith in 1940.
A New Creed is a brief and well-loved affirmation of faith often used in worship services.
A Song of Faith seeks to provide a narrative picture of what the United Church understands its faith to be in our 21st-century context.
One of the distinctive things about our tradition is that these faith statements are not held as "prescriptions" of what one must believe to belong to the church. Rather, they guide us as communities of faith in walking together on this journey of following Jesus.