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UCC Growing In The South

Churches leaving their denominations always make the news.  You rarely hear anything when new churches start or when an independent church decides to join a national denomination.  Breaking that rule today is a story from The Tennessean which reports that "Holy Trinity Community Church in west Nashville officially will join the United Church of Christ in an installation ceremony Sunday."

The news gets better:

Membership is up 79% in the denomination's Southeast Conference -- encompassing Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and the Florida Panhandle -- where three churches have joined in the past two months and other churches have contacted the denomination to begin the process of joining, according to the Rev. Tim Downs, of the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ.

If this growth keeps up the UCC is finally going to have enough people to challenge the Southern Baptists to a softball game!

My family's home state of South Carolina long had only one UCC congregation - The Circular Church in Charleston.  Now there are three in the Palmetto state.

Victory for the World Church (United Church of Christ) in Stone Mountain, GA (also part of the Southeast Conference) is one of the largest UCC congregations in the nation with over 5,000 members.

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