Ladera Community United Church of Christ
Ladera Community United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 3300 Alpine Road in Portola Valley, CA 94028. It is one of 5 churches in Portola Valley.
The mission of Ladera Community Church is to provide a sanctuary where anyone can come and experience the presence of God; to nurture the spiritual, moral, and intellectual growth of each person; to serve God with our talent, time, energy, and resources, accepting full stewardship for our community
Today the creative vision of a small group of neighbors has grown into a diverse and dynamic community, a sanctuary where any person may come to worship God and expand their understanding of the Christian tradition.
Part of Northern California Nevada Conference
3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (650) 854-5481 · Website: https://ladera.org/
Ladera Community United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 119 congregations of the Congregational family gather across California — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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Upcoming events at Ladera Community United Church of Christ
- Wed, Aug 5 · 7:30 PM: Affordable Housing Task Force — Online – Zoom
- Thu, Aug 6 · 7 PM: Choir Voice Training Class — LCC: Fireside Room, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
- Fri, Aug 7 · 3 PM: Share Your Joy Team Meeting — Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
- Sun, Aug 9 · 9:30 AM: Worship Service — LCC: Sanctuary, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
- Sun, Aug 9 · 11:30 AM: Navigation Center Lunch Serving — Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
From Ladera Community United Church of Christ's public calendar (https://ladera.org/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Ladera Community United Church of Christ
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 30.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ladera Community United Church of Christ
- Woodside Priory — 1.8 mi away
- Saint Bedes Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away in Menlo Park, CA
- Saint Denis Catholic Church — 2.2 mi away in Menlo Park, CA
- Christ Episcopal Church — 2.3 mi away
- Stanford Memorial Church — 2.4 mi away in Stanford, CA
- Stanford Memorial Church — 2.4 mi away in Stanford, CA
- Our Lady of the Wayside Roman Catholic Church — 2.4 mi away
- Valley United Presbyterian Church — 2.5 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away in Menlo Park, CA
- University Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away in Palo Alto, CA
More Congregational churches nearby
- Woodside Village Church — 4.2 mi away in Woodside, CA
- Foothills Congregational Church — 4.5 mi away in Los Altos, CA
- First Congregational Church — 4.6 mi away in Palo Alto, CA
- Congregational Church of Sunnyvale — 7.8 mi away in Sunnyvale, CA
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