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Christ Church has been a vital part of the Locust Point community in Baltimore for 125 years. We are a congregation of the United Church of Christ, a progressive Protestant denomination which extends a radical welcome to all people. In 2007 the United Church of Christ celebrated its 50th Anniversary as a denomination. Christ Church's roots go back to our predecessor denominations: The Evangelical Synod of North America and its merger with the Reformed Church in the United States to form a new denomination, the Evangelical and Reformed Church, in 1934. In 1957 the Evangelical and Reformed Church merged with the Congregational Christian Churches to form the United Church of Christ. Each congregation is autonomous - free to call a pastor and has ownership or control of real or personal property belonging to the congregation. We are in covenant with the other congregations that together form the United Church of Christ. Our church is a group of people who are together because we have been called together by God and because we have agreed to be together. The local church is “the basic unit of the life and organization of the United Church of Christ. Visit us. Come worship and grow with us in the service of God and neighbor. No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey – you are welcome here!
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A Point of View Many times I fail to ask, "where is God?" in whatever is going on in my life. The noise of the world often drowns the silence I need to refresh my soul, to get my priorities back in order, to simply listen for the still, small voice of God. Carol Prejean Zippert, a good friend and a poet, wrote about "Listening for God" in these words: "I listen so hard sometimes just to hear God, but I create such a clamor inside myself that I often miss the message. "I listen so hard sometimes just to hear God that I begin to tell God when to speak. I say, 'God, talk to me. I need you to talk to me.' I never consider God might not have anything to say right then. "I listen so hard sometimes just to hear God that I even tell God what to say. I say, 'God, tell me I'm doing the right thing. Tell me I'm doing what you want. Tell me everything will be all right.' "I listen so hard sometimes just to hear God, but I create such a clamor inside myself that I often miss the message. "So if you want to hear what God has to say, you've got to stop listening to yourself." From: I Don't Want to be Rich, Just Able" Poems by Carol Prejean Zippert, copyright (c) 1997. Used with permission. |
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Welcome to the web site of Christ Evangelical &Reformed United Church of Christ! Thank you for visiting our site. We invite you to contact us for more information and to join us for worship on Sunday mornings at 10:30 AM. 
The season of Lent is a good time to pause and reflect about matters of faith. Adults tend to get so hurried and harried that faith suffers from lack of nurture. I sometimes go through the day and realize I have not once stopped to give thanks for the many blessings I enjoy.