Welcome!
Welcome to our website!
We are the Beacon Falls Congregational Church, formerly known as the United Church of Beacon Falls (United Church of Christ, Congregational). As a means of clarifying our identity, we have recently changed the name of our church to the Beacon Falls Congregational Church and subsequently voted to disaffiliate with the United Church of Christ primarily as a protest against the UCC's preoccupation with and commitment to social/political agendas that have been given priority over the traditional ministries, tasks and values of mainstream Protestant Christianity. We welcome you to our website and invite you to come visit and worship with us very soon.
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Worship times:
Worship
- Sundays at 10:00 A.M. (with supervised child care)
- Lent Services:
- Feb 21: Ash Wednesday
- Feb 25-Mar 25: Sunday Lenten Services (10 AM)
- Apr 1: Holy Week Begins (Palm Sunday)
- Apr 5: Maundy Thursday Service of Tenebrae and Communion (7:30 PM)
- Apr 8: Easter
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- 6:30 at Matthies Park
- 8:00 and 10:00 in the Sancuary
Holy Communion
- First Sunday of each month at 10:00 A.M.
- Ash Wednesday at 7:30 P.M.
- Maundy Thursday at 7:30 P.M.
- Christmas Eve at 10:00 P.M.
Youth Groups
- Junior Pilgrim Fellowship
- Senior Pilgrim Fellowship
- Confirmation Class
- Annual Youth Retreats
- First Holy Communion Class
Other
- Choir Rehearsal: Mondays at 8:00 P.M. (all are invited to attend)
- Vacation Bible School: Last week of June
- Christian Education: Sundays at 10:00 A.M. (Classes run Pre-K through high school)
Our history:
The United Church originally gathered as a Methodist Episcopal Church in 1846, and the first church building of the new congregation was erected that same year in Pinesbridge. The present church builindg on Wolfe Avenue was contructed in 1871.
The church relinquished its Methodist-Episcopal connection in 1900 to become part of the Congregational Church, ultimately voting to become part of the U.C.C., which was formed in 1957 by the merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
We recently voted to terminate our relationship with the U.C.C., and so we will be an individual church.