Worship

Our 9 a.m. service features contemporary music and is especially good for families with small children

Our 11 a.m. service offers traditional music and worship

Sunday School for children ages 3 through 8^th grade at 10 a.m. September through June.

Adult Bible Study 10 a.m. in the Library every Sunday; additional Bible groups meet seasonally.

Various small groups, and spiritual growth programs offered seasonally.

Intercessory Prayer every Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary.

Ecumenical Bible Study and Fellowship Group for Mothers (with child care) is hosted in the Parish House each Monday, 9 - 11 a.m.

We confess the Lordship of Jesus Christ as our head and seek his guidance in all we do.

We recognize the Bible as the sufficient rule of faith and practice, and hold that living in accordance with the life and teaching of Jesus Christ is the true test of fellowship.

We have served the Forest Hills community since 1912, and continue to reach out and join in partnership with our neighbors.

Unique to our Congregational faith, we believe each member shall have the undisturbed right to interpret the Word of God according to the dictates of his or her own mind and conscience, under the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. Congregational polity means we are a self-governing, democratic church. Authority resides in the body of members, under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, together seeking the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. A Congregational Church is bound together by its Church Covenant, which states our common purpose and commitment.

Affiliated with the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, we share with other similar congregations across the United States in carrying on worldwide educational, medical and preaching ministries.

Neighborhood residents from six different denominations gathered together on October 13, 1912 in a Station Square store for the first meeting of what would become The Church-in-the-Gardens. Desiring to create an ecumenically grounded Protestant community church for the infant Forest Hills Gardens community, the founding members incorporated within a year as a Congregational church.

The Church-in-the-Gardens is a community Congregational Christian Church whose cornerstone is the Lord Jesus Christ. As recipients of God’s redeeming love in Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we are called to:

Glorify God

Bear Witness to God’s creative, redeeming and sanctifying action in the world

Nurture each person in the Christian faith, and

Affirm the worth and dignity of each individual.

Therefore, we covenant to uphold each person in his or her walk in Christ and to do deeds of faithful ministry in the world. We do all in thankful celebration of the love of Jesus Christ.

There are over 4,000 Congregational churches throughout the United States. Our start in this land began with the journey of the early Mayflower Pilgrims, who fled persecution in England, coming to America to establish freer lives under God's direction.

The Church-in-the-Gardens accepts the classic creeds of the Christian Faith as guides and educational testimony to the core beliefs of the universal Church, and has worshiped and interpreted the scriptures in the spirit of the Reformed Protestant traditions.

The Church-in-the Gardens is a member of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (NACCC.)

You'll find The Church-in-the-Gardens to be a place of worship, prayer, learning, service, fellowship and care. Church membership is open to all who profess faith in Jesus Christ and share the high calling of the church covenant. Membership classes are offered twice annually.

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