Welcome to Memorial Christian Church,
an open and affirming Disciples of Christ congregation.

Founded as a mission to University of Michigan students in 1891 by the Christian Woman's Board of Missions, using funds donated by Mrs. Sarah Hawley Scott, the church was officially called the Church of Christ. The name Memorial Christian Church, honoring her memory and others, was not officially adopted until after the church's centennial.

Originally built on State Street, on the site of what is now the University of Michigan law quad, the church was moved in 1923 to its present site, across Tappan Avenue from the University's School of Business, at the corner of Hill Street.

The church incorporated in 1913 by filing Articles of Association with the Michigan Secretary of State.
The purpose of the corporation, amended in 1976, is fourfold:

1. To make effective the ministry of the church in witness and service to people and to social structures;
2. To establish, receive and nurture a Disciples of Christ Congregation in Ann Arbor, providing help, counsel and pastoral care to its members and to ministers and other Disciples of Christ congregations in their mutual relationships;
3. To relate to the three manifestations of the Church--congregational, regional and general--so that each is able to carry out its mission as part of the whole Church;
4. To strive for the unity of the Church by developing ecumenical relationships.

We, the people of Memorial Christian Church, affirm Christ's call to love God with all that we are and to love our neighbor as ourselves. We believe that God enriches the world with variety and calls upon us to engage in God's holy work.

Aware of the worth and importance of our diversities, we declare ourselves to be a church that is open to and appreciative of all people - whatever their race, gender, varying abilities, age, origin, sexual orientation, family configuration, economic, or educational status, or other distinction.

We believe that all people are children of God and entitled to participate fully in all the activities of this church and of society.

To be a community empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness with word and deed to the Grace of God as revealed through Christ to the university community at our doorstep and to the farthest reaches of the earth.

Memorial Christian Church is called to celebrate and share God's presence and grace as revealed through the life, teachings, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
We are called to understand the needs of our congregation, community and the world...and to respond with a loving and nurturing ministry of witness and service to all people.
 

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