a  church  for  everyone

​Meeting the Needs of
​God's People

Unashamedly For Humanity, Unapologetically Christian

​With the Love of Jesus Christ

ministry   of   Wide   Awake   ucc

• Wide Awake UCC is a multi-racial, multi-cultural, open and affirming, regional church.
• Wide Awake UCC in Benton Harbor, Michigan, is a Christ-centered ministry with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior as the head.  
• We are a ministry that focuses on reaching the non-churched and the under-churched so that they may have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
•  ​We seek to liberate the non-liberate, to give hope and power to the forgotten and left out.  
• A ministry that informs, educates, and equips God's people in a modern day world to bridge the sacred with the secular. 
• A biblically based, social justice ministry that will stand for, and with, those who have been treated in an unjust and unfair way.  
• The ministry will work to restore the middle class in the Benton Harbor region. 
• We will maintain this mission through advocacy, charity, and justice for humanity.  
• Wide Awake UCC is a ministry that is engaged in society in order to make a more integrated, loving, and caring world.  
• ​Biblical mandate: Old Testament Micah 6 1-8, New Testament Matthew 25: 31-46. 

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From   the   BEGINNING

First Congregational Church of Benton Harbor first met in 1866 with the building at Bellview and Pipestone built in 1890. The current English Gothic building was completed in 1928. First Congregational Church has long been a center for social justice and empowerment playing key roles in the formation of the United Church of Christ. Closing services were held in 2007. With help from other UCC churches, including Trinity UCC, Wide Awake UCC is opening in this historic spot and is poised to continue the social justice work to improve lives in Benton Harbor.

Church history was summarized from the Benton Spirit May 10, 2007 Volume 6, Number 15.

Where   we   are   now

Wide Awake UCC is a new church. We have quite a few aspirations as you may have read above. We are seeking people who want to be a part of making this happen! 

Get Involved!

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Affiliations

Wide Awake UCC is part of the United Church of Christ with more than 5,000 churches across the US. Click on the UCC logo for more information or the UCC poster for what we believe as a UCC church. 

Forefront matches up nonprofits, grantmakers, public agencies, advisors, and our allies. Check out Wide Awake UCC's member page for ways to participate!

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