We are becoming a multicultural, multi-ethnic, lgbtqia+ congregation that is growing into a new community that honors each others root’s and learns from each other’s identity.

Each Sunday we sing Tasi Le Loto. The last line of the song says: “Na te faia i tatou uma ina ia tasi” (to make us united as one). United as one. United.

The UCC was founded in 1957 as the union of several different Christian traditions: from the beginning of our history, we were a church that affirmed the ideal that Christians did not always have to agree to live together in communion. Our motto, “that they may all be one,” is Jesus’ prayer for the unity of the church. The UCC is one of the most diverse Christian denominations in the United States.

The United Church of Christ Fremont, United represents that diversity. We chose to form a new church with three roots Fremont Congregational Church (FCC), Filipino-American Evangelical Church (FAE), and Vine Moni Samoan Church! 3 ethnically and culturally distinct groups united together to form a new multi-ethnic, multi-cultural church. We are trying to embody that prayer Jesus prayed over his disciples from John 17:20-21

“I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Creator, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”

That they may all be one, that they may all be united as one. That we may be united.

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here! We  at United hope and believe that you will experience this slogan of our denomination, the United Church of Christ, and the radical hospitality and inclusive love demonstrated by Jesus of Nazareth when you worship with us. As an “Open and Affirming” community, we affirm that people of every age, race, gender identities or expressions, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental ability, economic status and family structure are equally loved and embraced by God.

Our Origin Story

In September 2018, the members of three UCC churches, Fremont Congregational Church (“FCC”), Filipino-American Evangelical UCC (“FAE”) and Vine Moni UCC, voted to form a new church, United Church of Christ, Fremont (“UCCF”). UNITED was incorporated in December 2018 and installed in the Bay Association on May 19, 2019.

These three “root” churches bring UNITED to life.

What is a church? What is a spiritual community?

Rey: A church is, and we are, a spiritual community, a group of people seeking God’s presence in this world.

Jeff: A church is, and we are, a group of people that give value to God’s presence and the ways in which we stand in relationship to God.

Rey: A church is, and we are, a group of people that believes in the inherent and essential value of every human being and that in this value, before God, every human life is equal.

Jeff: A church is, and we are, a group of people that individually have different ways of understanding God, that have different kinds of knowledge about God, and we give value to those different ways of knowing God, a church is a place where we can explore and ask questions.

Rey: A church is, and we are, a group of people that come together to learn from God, to learn how God speaks to us, to learn from each other.

Jeff: A church is, and we are, a group of people that want to learn from our traditions and heritage.

Rey: A church is, and we are, a group of people that seek truth, but even for the things we believe we know, we seek new dimensions of truth and new ways to appreciate what we know.

Jeff: A church is, and we are, a group of people that follows the example of Jesus and the exemplary way his words and ministry can inspire us.

Rey: A church is, and we are, a group of people that seek to love one another as we are loved by God through Christ.

Jeff: A church is, and we are, a group of people that believe the example of Jesus is the way to act in Christian concern for the welfare of all people.

Rey: A church is, and we are, a group of people in covenant, who create through our words and deeds a community of accountability, not to judge others, not to judge ourselves, but to hold ourselves open to potential, to the possibility of receiving from God and each other, something better than we ever imagined could be true.