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Robyn Lebron The UCC also allies with other denominations in support of Church World Service efforts in domestic and foreign development and relief efforts According to the 2008 yearbook, the United Church of Christ is the seventeenth largest faith group in the United States and has approximately 1.55 million members and is composed of approximately 5,518 local congregations At the time of this research, there were conflicting n umbers o n v arious w ebsites r anging f rom 0,000 u p to million members worldwide In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 0.4 percent, or million adult adherents, of the US population self-identify with the United Church of Christ The UCC Statistical rofile for 201 states there are 0, as of 201 God or Gods “We believe in God, the Eternal Spirit, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Father, and to his deeds we testify: He calls the worlds into being, creates man in his own image and sets before him the ways of life and death He seeks in holy love to save all people from aimlessness and sin He judges men and nations by his righteous will declared through prophets and apostles.”8 (
ǡ adapted by Robert V Moss) Christ Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in Christ all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions, or principalities or authorities–all things were created through Christ and for Christ Christ is before all things, and in Christ all things hold together Christ is the head of the body, the church; Christ is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in everything Christ might be preeminent For in Christ all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through Christ all things are reconciled to God, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of Christ’s cross (5IF#PPLPG8PSTIJQ, United Church of Christ) 10
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