.Welcome to the official web site of the Houston Association of the South Central Conference of the United Church of Christ. We are a family of sixteen congregations serving southeast Texas and the Lousiana gulf coast.

WE ARE PEOPLE OF GOD'S EXTRAVEGANT WELCOME.

JESUS DIDN'T TURN PEOPLE AWAY, even those often rejected by others. We don't intend to either. We are like a "company of strangers," made family by the grace of God. God welcomes, claims, and loves all people. God also feeds our hunger, forgives our sins, and frees us from aimless wandering.

This is no idle chatter. The UCC has been bold in extending an invitation to all. For example, our historic denominations were the first to ordain an African American pastor (1785), a woman (1853), and a gay or lesbian person (1972).

WE ARE A PEOPLE OF COVENANT,
A UNITED AND UNITING CHURCH

GOD INVITES US INTO A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP CALLED "COVENANT". The Bible speaks of God's holy covenants with people, communities of Faith, nations, and all of creation.

As God covenants with us, we covenant with one another. Local churches also covenant - prayerfully acting on their own, but also relating with associations, conferences, the General Synod, and national settings of the UCC. We covenant with many other Christian denominations, and pray that all may be one (John 17:21). This prayer extends beyond the unity of all churches to the reconciliation of the whole world.

We welcome a rainbow of people. Guided by faith, our mission of justice and peace reaches across the street and around the world.

.We hope you will find the information on our web site, and the websites of the churches and organizations we have linked to, to be both helpful and encouraging. The links on the left are to other pages on this site. The links on the right are some of the organizations we covenant with.