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Many events are happening the first week of April at the Lake Helen First Congregational United Church of Christ.

The members of the church are busy baking for the Easter Bake Sale that will be held at the parish house at 107 N. Euclid Ave in Lake Helen on Saturday, April 7 at 9 AM. Come in early to select the best of the Easter goodies. There will be cakes, pies, cookies and other items for your Spring celebrations. We will appreciate all the help we can get with baked goods.

The Parish House will be open from 2 - 4 pm on Good Friday, April 6 and at 8:00 am on Saturday morning of the bake sale to accept baked goods. Proceeds from the sale will go for support of local missions including Outside the Gates, Hospice and The Neighborhood Center.
The week preceding Easter is Holy Week and the Lake Helen First Congregational United Church of Christ and the Lake Helen United Methodist Church will meet together to observe Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. The Maundy Thursday service will meet at the First Congregational Church Parish House on Thursday, April 5 at 6:30 pm. We will start off with a simple supper with foods reminding us of a Passover Seder followed by the service. On April 6, we will meet at the Methodist Church on S. Lakeview Drive in Lake Helen at 7 PM for the Good Friday Service.
Please join us for the services on Thursday and Friday, and the bake sale on Saturday.

On Easter Sunday, April 8, the Lake Helen First Congregational United Church of Christ will have Holy Communion at 10:30 AM.
Sunday, April 29: Fifth Sunday pot-luck dinner after Church Service
Remember: Church Service at 10:30 am every Sunday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Who Are We?

First Congregational Church, Lake Helen is a local church of the United Church of Christ, a denomination formed in 1957 from a merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.

The Congregational Church was the Church of the pilgrims at Plymouth. The Evangelical and Reformed Church was formed by the wave of German immigrants that came to the United States in the mid 1700's and 1800's. Both had a long and illustrious history with formidable early leaders such as Henry Ward Beecher and Jonathan Edwards.

Education was a high priority for the churches of both heritages forming noted universities such as Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Heidelberg and Oberlin in Ohio.

We Continue to honor our rich heritage as we today seek to unite all people with God's Love.

 

Our Mission

First Congregational Church (United Church of Christ) Lake Helen, Florida is a historical church with a historic mission that is the caring and nurturing of persons of maturity.

While we affirm our historic mission, we seek to become a congregation of the United Church of Christ in West Volusia County, Florida that acknowledges the population and demographic trends in the area thus a quest for a proactive posture for ministry and mission that addresses these new realities.

Accordingly, we welcome all who seek God's presence in their lives to participate in our common life and mission.

We seek to be a church in West Volusia County uniting all people with God's love.

We will value and affirm all persons of various ages, gender, races, nationality, sexual orientation, abilities and political and theological backgrounds.

We believe that in our diversity we find strength and a way to understand the inclusive love of God.

We commit ourselves, our property and resources to provide those ministries for the nurturing and care of all persons who unite with us in our common missions.