Welcome to The United Church of New Marlborough

243 Norfolk Road
P.O. Box 8
Southfield, MA 01259
USA
413-229-8109

Staff / Leaders

Rev.

John Wightman (Interim)

Weekly Schedule

Worship	10:30 a.m.
Sunday School	10:30 a.m.
Various midweek ministries	Contact us!

Introduction

A union of three New Marlborough Congregational churches, The United Church of New Marlborough is an independent church committed to a foundation in Scripture and faithful service to the Southern Berkshire region in the name of Jesus Christ.

Meeting in the 200 year old meeting house on Norfolk Road, we bring the historic truths of the faith to contemporary life in a family friendly environment.

A credentialed minister with the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, Rev. Felker brings a Bible based ministry in a community church setting.

Among our passions are the Great Commission and the Great Commandment, and we are pleased to support the work of NAE World Relief Corp., Promise Keepers, Hearts of the Father Outreach, and a host of local mission and service enterprises.

If you live in or are visiting Great Barrington or the Southern Berkshire region of Western Massachusetts, we invite you to join us for worship and friendship.

Our Vision & Purpose & Beliefs

Our Vision:

Given the fidelity of our 200 year old history
as a New England Congregational Church in the Puritan tradition,
our warmth as a congregation,
our commitment to God in Jesus Christ,
and our love for our neighbor,...

We are a relating church,
founded on Jesus Christ,
obedient to his Holy Word,
seeking to transform ourselves and our world
through personal devotion, evangelism, and service;
particularly strengthening families, assisting the needy,
serving our community, studying diligently, and worshipping faithfully
toward the goal that all might reverence Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior
finding in Him present strength and future hope
to the glory of God.

Our Purpose

The purpose of the church is to glorify God:
honoring him directly
and serving in his name
the fellowship of saints
and the human race
through Christian training, Christian outreach, and Christian service.

In the name of Jesus Christ, we the people of The United Church of New Marlborough will devote ourselves to regular worship:
meeting faithfully
and focusing our heart's affection
and mind's attention
on humbly glorifying God
in response to His person, His word, and His works.

Empowered by the Holy Spirit,
we will train Christians
in the content and doctrine of the Bible;
in the development of personal worship;
in the construct of godly character and lifestyle;
and in the manifesting of the Spirit's indwelling;
exhorting active participation in the congregation of believers;

we will do works of mercy
in accord with our individual and corporate opportunities and gifts;
we will attend to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and groups;
we will be agents of renewal and reconciliation,
committed to the building up of individuals and our community;

we will seek to reach those who are apart from Jesus Christ
with the call to follow Him
to the glory of God
and their own eternal salvation;
we will make ourselves prepared witnesses;
and give our energies and resources to greater cooperative Christian efforts at home and abroad;

and we will proclaim
the ethic of Holy Scripture
and the hope of the Kingdom of God
as we conduct the prophetic witness of the church in the world.

To this we commit ourselves as Christians and as the church.
To God be the glory!

Proclaiming Jesus Christ as its head, and looking both to the Word of God in the Scriptures and to the presence and power of the Holy Spirit to preserve its faith, this we declare as our mutual confession:

1. We believe the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, to be the only inspired, inerrant, infallible, authoritative Word of God.

2. We believe that there is one God, the source of all that is right and true and beautiful, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The three are coequal in power, coeternal in existence, and coessential in nature. They are subordinate in function, the Son deliberately submitting to the will to that of the Father, and the Spirit deliberately submitting his will to the mutual will of the Father and the Son, that God might be one.

3. We believe that humanity, in the headship of Adam, fell into sin and eternal alienation with God, suffering and dying in the consequences of sin, yet living in the promise of a Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

4. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

5. We believe that repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ and his finished work is essential to being reconciled with God and entering into the hope of eternal life.

6. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit through whom the Church of Jesus Christ prevails in worship and service, and by Whose indwelling power and fullness the Christian is regenerated and enabled to live a godly life in this present evil world.

7. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the dead: of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord, and of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting punishment.

8. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in Christ, the Lord and Head of each local congregation and of the Church universal.

We commend to all desiring greater understandings of these beliefs and their implications the prayerful study of the Savoy Platform (1658) as a Biblical expression of Congregational faith and life.

The United Church of New Marlborough is associated with: Congregational
for additional information, see the denomination links.

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