Plymouth United Church of Christ is an
Open and Affirming congregation, embracing diversity and affirming the dignity and worth of every person, since we are all created in God's image. We welcome into full membership and participation in the Body of Christ persons of every race, ethnic background, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, socio-economic background, marital status and faith background. We welcome all to share in the life, leadership, ministry, fellowship, worship, sacraments, responsibilities, humor, and blessings of participation in our congregation.
We invite you to join us for worship or any other gathering of Christian fellowship. Given our Open and Affirming status, we are from different walks of life, hold a wide range of beliefs and interests, are at different stages in our journeys of faith, and welcome all who desire a relationship with God and those who aren't sure what that means but would like to explore it. Our diversity unites us in an atmosphere of Christian love and care, helping one another in our faith walk. Plymouth is a church home where people know your name, are glad to see you, pray for you when you need it, accept you as you are, and really mean it when they say "The peace of Christ be with you": our members make Plymouth just that kind of church! Please join us for worship or any of the other events you see listed in our newsletter or on this website.
Current Events
Saturday, May 5 - spring clean up day, 9 am to whenever
Spring clean up day at church! Lunch provided. Inside cleaning and outside yard work, etc. will be done.
Sunday, May 6 - communion worship at 10:30 am, with potluck after
Jeus is the vine and we are the branches. Worship with Communion. Potluck picnic afterward - bring something to share to go with brats and hamburgers. We will also receive our monthly St. Francis Good pantry offering.
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Sunday, May 13 - worship at 10:30 am. Festival of the Christian Home.
At the last supper, Jesus offers his final command to his disciples (and us): to love one another. The children will be doing something special today in honor of this being the Festival of the Christian Home.
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Sunday, May 20 - worship at 10:30 am. Graduate recognition, teacher celebration, and camper bag giveaway
With special music by klezmer band, Klezmazel! Today we will celebrate our graduates, teachers, and those who are going to camp this summer. This is our last Sunday for adult and child Sunday School. We will also receive our monthly offering for
Our Church's Wider Mission (OCWM).
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Sunday, May 27 - worship at 10:30 am. Pentecost and Strengthen the Church offering.
Pentecost Sunday! In the tradition of the church, red is the color of Pentecost representing the flames of the Holy Spirit, so please wear red today as we celebrate the birth of the church! We will also receive our
Strengthen the Church offering.
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Sunday, June 3 - worship at 10:30 am. Trinity Sunday with Communion.
This is Trinity Sunday. We will celebrate Communion and receive our monthly St. Francis Food Pantry offering.
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Sunday, June 10 - worship at 10:30 am. Wisconsin Conference Annual Meeting Sunday.
This Sunday, Pastor David is at the Wisconsin Conference Annual Meeting. Each year our Conference Minister, Rev. Dave Moyer, preaches at the Sunday morning worship at annual meeting and sends a copy to all the churches to be read during their worship. George Stecher will lead us in worship this Sunday, including offering Rev. Moyer's sermon.
Summer worship
During worship this summer we will be looking at the prophets of the Old Testament in dialogue with the Gospel and how the Gospel writers made use of the prophetic texts. Worship remains at 10:30 am.
On Sunday, August 26, we will have a four church ragtime music worship service with the three Eau Claire UCC churches and Peace UCC of Fall Creek at First Congregational UCC (310 Broadway, Eau Claire) at 9:30 am.
Worship and Sunday Schedule
9:15 am Sunday School for children (classroom)
9:15 am Sunday School for adults (library)
10:00 am Fellowship time with coffee and treats (fellowship room)
10:30 am Worship for adults and children (sanctuary)
Nursery care is provided during worship, though we welcome all children to be part of our corporate worship because Jesus invites all people, especially children, to be participants in the life of the church. We have a special children's time during worship each Sunday.
The First Sunday of each month, we celebrate Communion, receive our offering for St. Francis Food Pantry, and have a potluck fellowship meal after worship.
The third Sunday of each month we receive our offering for OCWM, Our Church's Wider Mission, which provides money for the church's mission work here at home and around the world.
Our building is air-conditioned, fully handicapped-accessible, with wheelchair, walker, and crutches available, as well as ushers who are always ready to lend a helping hand. We provide large print bulletins for the sight impaired.
Nursery care is provided during worship.
Sermons
Call or e-mail the church office for times of holiday or special services.
Plymouth is a loving congregation on Eau Claire's west side founded in 1885 as Second Congregational Church. In 1957, we covenanted with many other congregations around the United States and formed a brand new denomination: the
United Church of Christ. At that time, we changed our name to Plymouth United Church of Christ. In 1995, we built a modern handicapped-accessible structure in a beautiful and secluded wooded lot on Moholt Drive. In 2007, after twelve years of saving money and worshiping in the fellowship room, we built (and completely paid for) our long-anticipated
sanctuary and held our first worship service in it on Easter Day, April 8, 2007.
In addition to Sunday worship and Sunday school, we have a Tuesday morning Bible Study, youth group, Wednesday evening Lenten services and soup suppers, movie nights, game nights, quilters who make wonderful quilts to give away to Western Dairyland, a women's fellowship, ministry to shut-ins and the sick, support of St. Francis Food Pantry and Community Table, summer Vacation Bible School, activities for children, outings to local restaurants and shows, a summer pie and ice cream social, thrift sale, a Christmas Bazaar, and sell our amazingly delicious and incredible baked goods on election days (we're a polling place). And, of course, the wonderful pot lucks and good fellowship.
Plymouth Church is located at 2010 Moholt Drive on a beautiful wooded lot filled with songbirds, deer, and other wildlife. Our driveway is nearly opposite the Moholt entrance of Delong Middle School. Find us on
mapquest. See an
aerial photograph of our campus, including our sanctuary and the meditation garden one of our Boy Scouts built in the summer of 2007 as his Eagle Project.
Fully accessible