Plymouth Congregational Church United Church of Christ

The question is often asked, “What are you?”  By that most people mean, “What denomination are you?”  The best answer is that we are a Protestant congregation founded by New England Congregationalists.  Today Plymouth Church is a member of The United Church of Christ.

The foundations of the United Church of Christ are in 16th, 17th, and 18th century Europe where the Protestant Reformation changed the face of Christendom, and oppression, war and poverty sent men, women and children to different parts of America.  First came the Pilgrims and our predecessors, the Puritans, from England.  They formed the Congregational churches.  Swiss and southern German immigrants who started the Reformed denominations soon followed them.  Later, Prussian immigrants arrived and started the Evangelical churches.  In the 19th century, frontier congregations joined to form a uniquely American denomination simply called Christian.

While each denomination was different in terms of ethnic origin and specifics of religious belief and practice, all were ecumenical at heart, resulting in the 1931 merger of the Congregational and Christian churches and the 1934 merger of the Evangelical and Reformed branches.  The United Church of Christ was established in 1957, when these two denominations joined to form one new church.

Today the United Church of Christ is an international denomination with more than one hundred congregations in Florida.  Approximately two-thirds of the members of the United Church of Christ churches have come from other denominations or no denomination.

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