Verona Salem United Church of Christ

Salem is a congregation of the United Church of Christ. We are not a people who believe we have all the answers, but we are a people who wish to live out our commitment to Jesus Christ. We acknowledge we do not live out this commitment perfectly, even on our best days, but we hope each day finds us striving to be our best. Ours is a ministry of encouragement whereby we look to God and hope to be strengthened by one another's faith and prayers, and so grow together in our knowledge and love of God.

As a congregation, we encourage freedom of thought and expression, but join the other congregations of our denomination in affirming:

The United Church of Christ acknowledges as its sole head, Jesus Christ, Son of God and Saviour. It acknowledges as kindred in Christ all who share in this confession. 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. It 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. It affirms the responsibility of the Church in each generation to make this faith its own in reality of worship, in honesty of thought and expression, and in purity of heart before God. In accordance with the teaching of our Lord and the practice prevailing among evangelical Christians, it recognizes two sacraments: Baptism and the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion.

~ From the Preamble to the Constitution
of the United Church of Christ

To learn more about the United Church of Christ, its faith, history, mission, and spirit, we direct you to www.ucc.org.