{"id":114,"date":"2012-07-27T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T11:32:08","slug":"church-history-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/?page_id=114","title":{"rendered":"Church History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1969 the Federated Church of Bristol (which was formed in 1947 when the Congregational Church and the Methodist Church united) and the Community Church of Bristol (which was once the Universalist Church) combined to form the <strong>United Church of Bristol.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The services are held in the former Universalist Church Building on County Road #2 in Bristol, NY.\u00a0 This area is also referred to as Baptist Hill.\u00a0 This year (2012), we celebrated our 150<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The congregation is made up of a mixed group of faith backgrounds.\u00a0 Many denominational roots can be found among the current members.\u00a0 Our current minister, Rev. Sue Forsyth, gives sermons with traditions of all in mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChurchHistory5.pdf\"><strong>Historical Roadmap<\/strong> <em>(click here)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChurchHistory2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-116\" title=\"ChurchHistory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChurchHistory2-966x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChurchHistory2-966x1024.jpg 966w, http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChurchHistory2-300x318.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChurchHistory2-283x300.jpg 283w, http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChurchHistory2.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1969 the Federated Church of Bristol (which was formed in 1947 when the Congregational Church and the Methodist Church united) and the Community Church of Bristol (which was once the Universalist Church) combined to form the United Church of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/?page_id=114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedchurchofbristolucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}