For more information on our fellowship services, feel free to call us at (208) 466-6581. We invite you to join us for Sunday worship and experience our worship services firsthand.
For more information on our fellowship services, feel free to call us at (208) 466-6581. We invite you to join us for Sunday worship and experience our worship services firsthand.
This church shall be part of the United Church of Christ and it shall sustain that relationship to the United Church of Christ a community of faith that seeks to respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed. The UCC was founded in (c. 1957) as the union of several different Christian traditions: from the beginning of our history, we were a church that affirmed the ideal that Christians did not always have to agree to live.
Christians did not always have to agree to live together in communion. Our motto—"that they may all be one"—is Jesus' prayer for the unity of the church. The UCC is one of the most diverse Christian churches in the United States. Use the directory on the left of this page to read stories about the history and future of our community. Also linked from this page: the meaning of the United Church of Christ logo with copies of the logo in different formats for use by local churches, a copy of our Constitution, a brochure about the new structure of the UCC's national ministries, the UCC Archives Page with links to various historical societies, and our database of UCC congregations in your community.
c. 1620 The Pilgrims, forebearers of the United Church of Christ leave Europe for the New World. John Robinson urges then to keep their minds and hearts open to new ways. God, he says, "has yet more light and truth to break forth out of his holy word."
c. 1630 Congregational churches become an early experiment in democracy with each congregation being self governing.
c. 1785 Lemuel Haynes is the first African American ordained by a protestant denomination.
c. 1839 Forebears of the United Church of Christ organize to free the prisoners of the Amistad.
c. 1853 Antionette Brown is the first woman since New Testament times ordained as a Christian minister.
c. 1957 The United Church of Christ is born when the Evangelical and Reformed Church unites with Congregational Churches.
c. 1965 The First Congregational Church is established in Nampa as a member of the United Church of Christ.
c. 1968 Members of the First Congregational Church of Nampa construct the first part of the present church.
c. 1972 The United Church of Christ's Golden Gate Association ordains the first openly gay person to mainline Protestant ministry, the Rev. William R. Johnson.
c. 1976 Rev. Joseph Evans is elected president of the United Church of Christ, the first African American leader of an intergrated denomination.
c. 2006 First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in Nampa votes to become Open and Affirming.
c. 2010 First Congregational Church votes to become the Nampa, United Church of Christ.