About Us
Lynnhaven Colony Congregational UCC is a 180 member church located 3 blocks from the southern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia Beach, VA. Founded as a community church in 1956, when Shore Drive was a 2-lane road, W. Great Neck Road was the only "Great Neck" Road, Long Creek Bridge was a 1-lane drawbridge and the first homes were being built in Cape Story by the Sea and Lynnhaven Colony. LCCC has grown from a small cinder block building to becoming an active center of faith and community activities. LCCC is also the home to an outstanding, caring, state-licensed Child Development, Day Care Center. LCCC draws its members from many denominations and religious traditions and is an open and welcoming congregation.
Our Denomination
We are part of the United Church of Christ.
The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant denomination of 1.5 million members worldwide. The United Church of Christ came into being in 1957 with the union of two Protestant denominations: the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches. Each of these was, in turn, the result of two earlier denominations. The Congregational Churches were organized when the Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation (1620) and the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1629) acknowledged their essential unity in the Cambridge Platform of 1648. The Christian Churches sprang up during America’s period of religious revival known as “the Second Great Awakening” during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Evangelical Synod of North America traced its beginning to German Evangelical immigrants, who associated in 1840. The Reformed Church in the United States began with German settlers in 1725, and later immigrants from Switzerland and other countries. Through the years, members of other ethnic and religious groups have joined. Thus, the United Church of Christ celebrates and continues a wide variety of traditions in its common life.
The United Church of Christ affirms the historic Christian creeds and encourages dialogue among people of differing theological viewpoints. Our common bond is not creedal but covenantal: Churches of the United Church of Christ voluntarily covenant to support Our Church’s Wider Mission financially, prayerfully and programmatically. Our Church’s Wider Mission supports: ministries around the globe with partner churches in 85 countries, with approximately 200 missionaries and coordination of volunteer services; interfaith dialogue; advocacy for human rights, health and wholeness, public education, poverty issues, media ethics; social and economic development; ministry to persons with disabilities; disaster preparedness and response in the U.S. and abroad; refugee advocacy and resettlement; resources for local churches; partnerships with UCC-related colleges and seminaries, campus ministries; scholarships and grants; outdoor ministries; leadership training for laity and clergy; placement services for churches and clergy; ministerial formation and authorization; starting new churches; church building loans; prison ministries; peace ministries; ecumenical relationships; and more . . .
We are part of the Southern Conference.
Formed in 1965, The Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ, is comprised of the churches of Eastern Virginia, Eastern North Carolina, and Western North Carolina. It has been called the most diverse Conference in the United Church of Christ both racially (with congregations that are predominantly Black, White, Hispanic and Filipino) and theologically (liberal, conservative and in-between, with churches of Congregational, Christian, Evangelical & Reformed, Afro-Christian and other heritages). Its offices are in Burlington, North Carolina. The Rev. Emmet Floyd is Interim Conference Minister.
We are part of the Eastern Virginia Association.
The EVA of the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ was organized on May 7, 1969 at Lynnhaven Colony Congregational Church. It was the prophetic and historic merger of the old Eastern Virginia Conference (Southern Convention) of Congregational Christian Churches, which was organized in 1817, and the Eastern Virginia Conference (Convention of the South) of Congregational Christian Churches, which has been around since 1873, came together across racial lines. Today, the Eastern Virginia Association has its headquarters at Lake Prince Center in Suffolk. Associate Conference Minister, the Rev. Drew Morris, is a member of Lynnhaven Colony Congregational United Church of Christ.
