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Our PastorPastor Ryon Price was called to serve as our pastor in January of 2006.
Actually, we've been a becoming church for a long time now. Since 1804 in fact. When the bricks were laid for what is now the United Church of Colchester, the building tripled as the Baptist church, the Congregationalist church, and the town meeting hall. Like a lot of other New England churches, our church was the place to be. But things changed; a whole generation of New Englanders quit going to church. There came a day when the members of the United Church of Colchester didn't know if they would make it. Then a really cool thing happened. A small group of faithful people came to the conclusion that they still wanted to do life together. So they kept on gathering, and they kept praying, and somehow they kept the lights on. And they survived the storm. Now on any given Sunday a steady stream of children's feet can be heard pattering up and down the halls. Adults gather on Sunday mornings and regularly throughout the week to pray, study scripture, talk about work and home and rest and play, and piece all those things together into the arrangement we call the spiritual life.
A Church of Relationships - Past, Present and Future With wooden pews (cushioned now), stained glass and a beautiful steeple on top, our church is indeed the quintessential Vermont village church. For over 150 years people have gathered in our humble sanctuary to marry, bury, laugh with, listen to and love one another. Sometimes when I need a break, I will go in there to sit by myself. I always get this peculiar feeling that I am not alone, but that a great cloud of witnesses is sitting with me. We are Baptists. And as they say, wherever two or three Baptists are gathered there will be food. So we eat together a lot - not because we love food (we do), but because we love each other and because we believe something really special happens when people gather around a table and break bread together. A seat will be waiting for you at the table. No matter who you are. No matter where you have been. No matter what you have done. We will welcome you. We will say, "Pull up a chair. Tell us your story. Share with us in this feast called life." We are truly a church that is becoming. We hope you will become along with us. . .
Grace,
Christ centered. People oriented. © 2008, United
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