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United Church on the Green is part of the larger United Church of Christ ( or UCC ) across the country. Believing that God is still speakingin the world, we join with our denomination in advocating a new vision of a multi-racial, multi-cultural, open and affirming church, accessible to all.Grounded in our belief that the Holy Spirit calls and empowers us as partners in transforming the world, we commit ourselves as a Just Peacechurch to the cause of reconciliation. In the same way, we have made a commitment to be Open and Affirmingof all people, specifically including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons. The Just Peace Church vision is a hallmark of United Church of Christ theological identity. For nearly two decades, the Just Peace Church program has been a grassroots movement of UCC congregations committed to corporately naming and boldly proclaiming a public identity as a justice-doing, peace-seeking church. The movement traces its history to the 1985 General Synod, when... [ more ] An Open and Affirming Church COVENANT OF OPENNESS AND AFFIRMATION We know, with Paul, that as Christians, we are many members, but are one body in Christ members of one another, and that we all have different gifts. With Jesus, we affirm that we are called to love our neighbors as ourselves, that we are called to act as agents of reconciliation and wholeness within the world and within the church itself. [ more ] [ This historical summary is adapted from M. H. Mitchell's, History of United Church of New Haven, 1942 ] Another question which agitated the church from time to time as it did the whole country was slavery. Out of it developed some of the most famous events in the history of the churches on the Green... [ more ] The following is an excerpt from a sermon preached by the Rev. Louise B. Higginbotham, senior pastor of United Church on the Green, New Haven, on the occasion of the Meetinghouse's dedication as a site on Connecticut African-American Freedom Trail... [ more ]