Welcome Visitors!

Dear Friends in Faith,

On behalf of the leadership and the whole congregation, I welcome you to this website. We hope that we might be the faith community you have been searching for!

As a transplant from the Midwest, I understand the anxiety of seeking out a spiritual home in the midst of relocating... [ more ]

The pastors like to say, as is a long-standing United Church of Christ tradition, that "no matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, you're welcome here!" This is true especially in this time of pandemic, when we make efforts to include people no matter their technological or other abilities... [ more ]

First Church has worked hard to make our historic buildings accessible to the handicapped. Our Meetinghouse/Sanctuary is accessible through the main entrance. Pews at the front of the church have a comfortable area for wheelchairs. Our first floor where the Fellowship Hall, Kitchen, classrooms and nursery are located can be accessed through the riverside entrance ... [ more ]

The simplicity of the Sanctuary, Chapel, and church in general is a result of our iconoclastic Protestant heritage. Iconoclasm is the intense opposition to icons or anything that might vaguely resemble an idol.  When Puritans left England in the early 1600s, it was in part because they gave up on getting the Church of England to be less what they considered Roman Catholic. They worried that the fancy crosses/crucifixes, the statues of saints, and pictures of Jesus, etc., were tempting Christians to worship things rather than God. [ more ]

When someone joins the official membership of the church, they promise to commit themselves to be present in worship on a regular basis and to support the spiritual and active mission of the church through time, talent and treasure ... [ more ]

We are both part of a long-standing Protestant tradition and part of a newer and ever renewing expression of Christian faith. The long-standing tradition of our church traces itself back through the Reformation break-off from the Catholic Church 500 years ago and the Puritan tradition that broke off from the Church of England in the 1630s. The people who founded our church traveled to the New World to flee religious persecution ... [ more ]

First UCC Milford: Mission, Identity
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First UCC Milford: Musical Ensembles
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The Connecticut Conference of the UCC [Twitter]

Fall 2024
The First United Church of Christ is a faith community that is based on the idea that God's love encompasses all. There are four principles that grow out of that basic brings together four basic ideas:
We are an INCLUSIVE, CHILD AND YOUTH FOCUSED, SERVICE-ORIENTED, AND JOYFUL faith community! [ more ]