Kansas City on Beacon Hill

Kansas City Statement
of Faith-The First Hundred Years

Faith, Polity and Wider Fellowship are the three tenets from
which rose the important affirmation of
faith adopted by the Congregational Churches in 1913 when the
National Council met in Kansas City, Missouri "to affirm traditional
congregationalist principles in a form that would meet the needs of the new
century."

Visitors to the Congregational House at 14 Beacon Street are
greeted by a copy of the Statement cast in bronze on our foyer’s wall. Many of
us pass the declaration every day, but what does it mean and what part does it
play in the history of American religion?

Join Executive Director Dr. Peggy Bendroth as she explores
the historic significance of the Statement and its contribution to a full
century of religious and social life and thought.