What time are services at First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church meets Sunday at 8:30am (we have a vibrant worship service); Sunday at 10am (we have a vibrant worship service). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church in Guilford, CT is a United Church Of Christ church. It is one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in Guilford.

First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church in Guilford, CT 06437. It is one of 9 churches in Guilford, and one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.

First Church strives to be a multigenerational community where all are welcomed into the fullness of life and faith.

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Guilford, CT, 06437

Service times

Sunday 8:30am · we have a vibrant worship service
Sunday 10am · we have a vibrant worship service

Phone: (203) 453-5249 · Website: https://firstchurchguilford.org/

First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 219 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Connecticut — 2,930 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.

Ministries at First Congregational Church

Environmental Ministry
Prison and Re-entry Ministry

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Latest from First Church Guilford's YouTube channel: Worship at First Church for October 5, 2025 (all videos).

The community around First Congregational Church

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. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 20 travel more than an hour to work. 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: 29.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Congregational Church

Saint George Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
Christ Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
Shoreline Vineyard Church — 0.5 mi away
Bethel Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
Embassy of Heaven — 2.9 mi away
Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society — 3.1 mi away in Madison, CT
Beacon church — 3.2 mi away
Stony Creek Congregational Church — 3.8 mi away in Branford, CT
United Methodist Church Branford — 3.8 mi away in Branford, CT
Evangelical Free Church — 4 mi away in Branford, CT

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North Guilford Congregational Church — 6.2 mi away

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