About Us – St. Stephen’s UCC

Our mission is to proclaim the Gospel, make disciples, serve the world (members, attendees, community), to energetically seek justice for all by extending God’s kingdom on earth.

And, we are self-defined as an “Outreach” congregation. We believe in doing for others as a central part of our ministry. We donate consistently through the calendar year to various opportunities to reach out to those in need. Among those, but not restricted to those, are Samaritan’s Purse Christmas Child Shoebox gathering and delivery; “Socktober” offerings of pairs of socks delivered to a central collection point for distribution to others in need; and, Clarence Community Pantry. Also, we contribute to the Lockport NY donation for others, “Brother’s Keeper,” annually. In each of these cases, the donations are strictly voluntary by church members.

Our vision is to love God, and to love others as ourselves as directed by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Further, our vision is to seek for justice on this earth for those in need.

Our Core Value, the main thing of all main things –

Christ Crucified. 

We believe that without the cross, as St. Paul has said so well, we who claim Christianity would be the biggest fools on the planet.  We believe that Jesus lowered himself, walked among our “dirt,” and mingled with us in gracious, precious love for the purpose of becoming sin for us and dying for us on the horrors of the cross.