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Our church's history began with a meeting at
Adelman's Casino on Sunday September 10, 1916. At that time there was a meeting of
"...all persons interested in the holding of non-sectarian religious services in the
Pinehurst district."
On September 21, 1923 the church was organized and its twenty
members constituted the People's Community Church of Pinehurst. The Rev. M. H. Sweet
was the first pastor. The church was incorporated in 1925 and in 1930 the church's
name was changed to the Community Congregational Church of Pinehurst.
In 1945, a new building committee was established. In 1951,
the new meetinghouse was dedicated. Ten years later, following the formation of the
United Church of Christ, the church voted to accept the Constitution and Bylaws of the new
denomination.
The Reverend R. Kenneth Evitts was our pastor from 1988 to 2007.
He graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in S. Hamilton, MA
and was ordained in the UCC in November 1988.
Pastor Debbie
Ennis currently serves as our interim pastor.
The words of Warren Wiersbe in his book On Being a Servant of God,
best sum up our vision of ministry: "Ministry takes place when
divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of
God." It is the goal of the Community Congregational Church
to be the loving channels of God's resources to meet the needs of those
God brings into our lives. It is our desire to be the ambassadors of
God's reconciling work through Jesus to the world (2 Corinthians 5:20).
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