Glen Ridge Congregational Church

Glen Ridge Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 195 Ridgewood Avenue in Glen Ridge, NJ 07028. It is one of 5 churches in Glen Ridge.

We are an active, community-oriented church located at the corner of Ridgewood Avenue and Clark Street in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

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195 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ, 07028

Service times

  • Sunday 9am · Morning Worship Choir Rehearsal Worship Service
  • Sunday 10am · Morning Worship Choir Rehearsal Worship Service

Phone: (973) 743-5596 · Website: https://glenridgecong.org/

Shares a ministry location with St. Francis of Assisi American National Catholic Church.

Glen Ridge Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 24 congregations of the Congregational family gather across New Jersey — 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.

Ministries at Glen Ridge Congregational Church

  • Children's Sunday School
  • Youth Group
  • Adult Education
  • Fellowship Opportunities
  • Service Opportunities
  • Choral and Handbell Choirs

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Upcoming events at Glen Ridge Congregational Church

  • Thu, Aug 6 · 7:30 AM: Morning Glories — Zoom
  • Thu, Aug 6 · 1 PM: Pastor John Office Hours — GRCC Senior Minister's Office
  • Thu, Aug 6 · 10 PM: NA meeting — Blue Room
  • Fri, Aug 7 · 7 PM: AA meeting — Blue Room
  • Sat, Aug 8 · 10:30 AM: Alanon meeting — Blue Room

From Glen Ridge Congregational Church's public calendar (https://glenridgecong.org/). Times are the church's local time.

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Latest from Glen Ridge Congregational Church's YouTube channel: 8/2/26 Worship (all videos).

The community around Glen Ridge Congregational Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,400 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: 29.3%
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (1.7–11.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Glen Ridge borough is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 1,949 residents.

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