First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 4 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, CT 06371. It is one of 6 churches in Old Lyme.

At the First Congregational Church of Christ, we are more than just a building. We are a community … a community of people of faith who care about the world we live in, whether it’s right outside our door or half a world away … and a community that is constantly striving to live up to Christ’s teaching, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

Serving since 1665

4 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, 06371

Service times

  • Sunday 10am · mornings

Phone: (203) 430-3208 · Website: https://fccol.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 — 2,928 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

  • Food Pantry/Soup Kitchen
  • Affordable Housing
  • Immigration Assistance Committee
  • Refugee Resettlement Project

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The community around First Congregational Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 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. 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: 26.6%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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