Welcome!
The Sanbornton Congregational Church, UCC in Sanbornton, New Hampshire welcomes you! Worship services are offered every Sunday. Ministries are served all throughout the week. Weddings and baptisms are held in our historic sanctuary throughout the year. Join us for worship and fellowship!
We affirm that all people are embraced within the family of God and the community of this congregation. We welcome people of every race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age, economic class, physical or mental ability, and any other of the diverse attributes that are woven into the fabric of humankind. As participants in the life of this church, everyone is encouraged to share worship, membership, ministry, and leadership in our congregation.
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A Peace with Justice Church
We endeavor to speak out against words and deeds of injustice and violence in ourselves, our families, our community, our state, and our world, and to provide a safe place for all people of good will to converse with God and each other.
A Small But Lively Sunday School
Our Church School Program - Nursery (birth through age 2), Preschool (ages 3 through age 5), Grades 1 & 2, Grades 3 & 4, and Grades 5 through 8 - is enhanced by dedicated and enthusiastic teachers. Our children have fun while learning and their voices ring out each Sunday in our lively Junior Choir. A significant increase in enrollment has occurred over the past few years.
We currently are using Cokesbury curriculum, Rock Solid for the younger children and One Room Sunday School for the older children.
Our program follows the school year and during the summer there is the opportunity for the children to participate in our UCC Camping Programs at Geneva Point on Lake Winnipesaukee or the Horton Center in the White Mountains.
Our children have enthusiastically participated in the UNICEF Trick or Treat collection, collected food for the Food Pantry, taken a trip to Heifer International’s Overlook Farm in Rutland, MA., and collected a sizeable amount for Pennies for Peace.
Our church is in the process of ‘going green’. Ideas were developed and then incorporated into the life of our children. This connects our children to the adults in the church and keeps them active in the growing life of our church. A skit about the Garbage Monster was performed by the children on Children’s Sunday. To send our message out to the community, the children and adults built a float for Sanbornton Old Home Day, carried sandwich boards encouraging recycling, and passed out bookmarks giving green tips and advertising our Open House that we have each September.
Music-Loving
We are blessed to have one of the finest small church choirs in New Hampshire. Our choir director, Dennis Akerman, was the first commissioned Minister of Music in the New Hampshire Conference of the UCC. We also have the services of a distinguished organist, Douglas Embree.
Mission-Oriented
We help to support many local, national, and international agencies that provide hunger relief, disaster relief, shelter, funds for resettlement, and tools for building a better life. We provide transportation and other services to elderly and disabled people in our own and surrounding communities.
