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Worship Time

Sunday Worship: 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Summer Worship: 9:00 - 10:00 AM

Event Spotlight

Vacation Bible School: Crocodile Dock!
Vacation Bible School is June 15-19, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. each night. Includes dinner! We will all be in the swamp using Group Publishing's Curriculum, "Crocodile Dock!" We will need your hands, your hearts and your imaginations!

Wednesday Summer Education Series!
Wednesday nights are the happening nights at St. Peter's this summer. The Mayberry bible study joins forces with movie discussions for adults and family movie nights to having something new each Wednesday evening!

Illinois Baroque Music Institute
St. Peter's will be hosting the Illinois Baroque Music Institute July 17, 18, and 19. Students will be learning to read from music manuscripts and first editions, and will gain experience with baroque string style and bowing techniques. All set to the tone of Antonio Vivaldi.

Family Movie Night
St. Peter's is continuing family movie nights one Wednesday evening each month this spring. From 5:30 until about 7:30 in the Lounge come enjoy good fellowship, snacks, and a movie. Watch the church calendar and this space for the current schedule:

ALL ages are invited and welcome, bring all your friends!

Directions

We're located halfway between Mattis and Prospect, right beside Westview School, one block south of the bus stop at John and Russell. Building has elevator (access from rear door at lower level) and accessible restroom (on upper level). [map it!]

Who We Are and What We Believe

The United Church of Christ is a community of faith that seeks to respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed. The UCC was founded in 1957 as the union of several different Christian traditions: from the beginning of our history, we are a church that affirmed the ideal that Christians did not always have to agree to live together in communion. Our motto-"that they may all be one"-is Jesus' prayer for the unity of the church. The UCC is one of the most diverse Christian churches in the United States.

While preserving relevant portions of heritage and history dating back to the 16th century, the UCC and its forebears have proven themselves capable of moving forward, tying faith to social justice and shaping cutting edge theology and service in an ever-changing world.

Affirming that Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, the UCC claims as its own the faith of the historic church expressed in the ancient creeds and reclaimed in the basic insights of the Protestant reformers. Yet the UCC also affirms the responsibility of the church in each generation and community to make faith its own in reality of worship, in honesty of thought and expression, and in purity of heart before God. It looks to the Word of God in the Scriptures, and to the presence and power of the Holy Spirit to prosper its creative and redemptive work in the world.

One of the UCC's distinguishing characteristics is its penchant to believe that ... God is still speaking, ... even when it puts us out there alone. History has shown that, most often, we're only alone for a while. Besides, we receive so many gifts from our ecumenical partners, being "early" seems to be one of ours.

The UCC recognizes two sacraments: Baptism and the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion.