Bienvenido a First Christian Church, Anniston.
You are welcome here
First Christian Church, Anniston is an Open and Affirming congregation rooted in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). We seek to be a welcoming, spiritually vibrant church where people can worship, serve, grow, ask honest questions, and come to Christ’s table together.
As part of the Disciples tradition, we believe in unity without requiring uniformity. People come to this church from different backgrounds, cultures, life experiences, and points of view. We do not expect everyone to think exactly alike. Instead, we try to practice the kind of Christian community where people can belong, disagree with grace, serve together, and continue growing in faith.
We are committed to reconciliation, anti-racism, inclusion, and the work of God’s love in the world. We believe faith should shape how we treat one another, how we welcome our neighbors, and how we respond to the needs of our community.
More than anything, we want you to know that you are welcome here. You do not have to have everything figured out before you walk through the door. You are welcome in your joy, your questions, your doubts, your gifts, your struggles, your faith, and your whole humanity.
Our mission
We, the members of First Christian Church, commit to being a welcoming, open, affirming, and spiritually vibrant congregation.
We seek to deepen our relationship with Christ and with one another through worship, prayer, study, stewardship, and fellowship.
We seek to serve all of God’s people in Jesus’ name.
We seek out all who may be transformed by the joy of life in Christ.
Our denominational home
First Christian Church is part of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a movement that describes itself as “a movement for wholeness in a fragmented world.”
The Disciples tradition grew out of a desire for Christian unity. In the early 1800s, leaders such as Barton W. Stone, Thomas Campbell, and Alexander Campbell challenged the divisions that kept Christians separated from one another, especially at the Lord’s Table. Their movements eventually came together in 1832 and helped form what became the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
That history still shapes us today. We believe Christ’s table is larger than any one denomination, background, or human boundary. We seek to be a church where unity is practiced through welcome, shared worship, honest study, and service to the world.
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Our congregation’s story belongs to a larger stream of Disciples history and to the people in Anniston who gathered, worshiped, served, and passed the faith forward.
What it means to be Disciples of Christ
As Disciples of Christ, we welcome all to the Lord’s Table as God has welcomed us.
We gather around the Lord’s Table.
Communion is central to our worship. We celebrate the Lord’s Supper every Sunday because we understand it as a sign of Christ’s welcome, grace, and unity.
We practice unity without requiring uniformity.
We do not believe everyone has to agree on every question in order to worship, serve, or belong together. We seek to remain in covenant with one another even when we see some things differently.
We study scripture thoughtfully.
We encourage people to read, question, study, and listen for God through scripture. Rather than relying on rigid tests of faith, we seek to understand scripture with care, humility, historical context, and openness to the Spirit.
We honor the priesthood of all believers.
Every person has gifts to offer. Ministry does not belong only to clergy or church leaders. Each person is called to participate in the life and work of the church.
We work with others for healing and justice.
The Disciples tradition has a strong commitment to cooperation with other Christians and people of faith. We seek to join in God’s work of wholeness through service, compassion, reconciliation, and justice.
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