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Heritage
The Congregational Church in the Highlands
is more than just a location or a beautiful Gothic
Structure. It is a church that places its emphasis on people. We are bound together in a
covenant relationship through which we sustain each other on our faith journey,
duplicating the ties that sustained our Pilgrim forebears when they came to the shores of
New England in 1620. Founded in 1921, the Church in the Highlands is a congregation of the United Church of
Christ, a union in 1957of the Congregational Christian churches and the Evangelical and
Reformed Churches. The Pilgrims were the first Congregationalists in this country. The
Christian Church, founded in New England in 1801, united with the Congregationalists in
1931. The Evangelical and Reformed Church, itself a union of historic churches or German
background, was founded in 1702. Congregational churches are free of overhead control.
Each local congregation owns its property, call their ministers and govern their affairs
by means of democratically elected leaders.
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