Missions and Outreach

Tradition

In 1840, this Church was founded by good people who came together, as they said, “binding themselves in the service of Christ in the Community.” The Churches first settled pastor, Rev. James Bryant, went out from this Church after six years to do missionary work in Africa. In South Africa, he founded what is now the Imfume Congregational Church – our Sister Church. The Congregational Church of Littleton has a long tradition of outreach!

From its earliest days, the Congregational Church has always been oriented toward mission outreach and social justice – to serving God in the community, the Country and in the world. In the 1840s, women gathered at the Church to sew for the needy. Today, spiritual descendants of those women meet each Wednesday as the Ladies Sewing Group, sewing, knitting and crocheting for those in need. In the 1960s, the Church sent the “Christmas Carpenters” to Mississippi to help repair firebombed churches, vandalized in the Civil Rights strife of that time.

For more on Caring Outreach, see Ministries Today