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Our Missions and Programs
Our Mission
We are called by God to gather an intergenerational people of faith into a community that celebrates diversity, social justice, and spiritual exploration in an open and affirming (ONA/O&A) environment. We seek to be a new seed of hope where there are no strangers.
Worship
Our worship services at 6:00 p.m. Saturday evenings are decidedly Christian in content but inclusive in language, honest dialogue, and sharing. Highly informal, worship is structured but open to spontaneous input. DUCC’s pastors welcome questions when they are speaking.
Children are encouraged to stay for the service and are free to move around and ask questions. Worship includes special moments for children each week. Child care can be provided for pre-K and younger children as needed.
Since our worship is centered around the principle of the Open Table, we invite all persons who seek to follow the way of Jesus to share in our weekly communion bread and cup celebration. This means that our weekly communion is open to everyone attending. We believe that the communion table belongs to Christ and therefore cannot be closed by humans. At DUCC all people are welcome to Christ’s table.
This spirit of welcome pervades all that we are and do.
If you are in the south central Pennsylvania area, we invite you to attend one of our services in Lancaster, PA. We are a progressive Christian community affiliated with the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Education Opportunities
Learning events are held periodically at 4:45 p.m. on Saturday evenings before worship. Past course topics include the healings of Jesus and contemporary holistic healing means and methods; marriage equality; faith and politics; death and the afterlife; centering prayer and meditation; process-relational theology; and a study of African-American spirituals.
Peace and Justice
DUCC congregants are generous givers, whether it is collecting food for a local food bank, hands-on helping, or giving money for global disaster relief. We are also active coalition builders and advocates for a variety of local and international peace and human rights concerns.
Examples of our peace and justice advocacy include participating in local and national peace demonstrations, the Race against Racism, the Stop the Hate Rally, and Take Back the Night. We wrote and visited state and federal legislators over issues including protesting the Marriage Protection Amendment, the Patriot Act, and budget cuts to Medicaid. We also fasted and prayed through the World Summit.
DUCC works hard to spread the Gospel of inclusivity, reaching out to survivors of bigotry and the violence of “isms” of all kinds; we seek to have the mind of Christ that embraces all creation.
...a new seed of hope where there are no strangers...
