Our Denomination
The United Church of Christ, the UCC, is a network of Christian communities—over 5,000 churches and approximately one million members—whose focus is the extravagant welcome of all peoples to join us in faith and in action, to promote justice and peace in the world.
We are part of the Indiana-Kentucky Conference of the UCC, who is responsible for larger, conference-wide missions, as well as the licensing, commissioning, and ordination of ministers.
UCC churches are governed by the congregation with a bottom-up philosophy. The congregation itself meets through smaller committees, its elected board members, and at least yearly during a congregation-wide meeting to determine the direction of its missions, outreach, and business matters. A UCC church is democratic church for and by its people.