Our Vision

The Vision of Trinitarian Congregational Church (TCC) is to fix everything broken in the Universe. There is plenty of it. There is poverty and injustice all over the world, hostility between nations, tension in families, and a deep down unsettled-ness in every human soul.

We feel that the solution to all these problems is in God, who has revealed Himself in the man Jesus Christ. His death and resurrection means that all the enemies of God have been destroyed, namely sin, death and the devil. Gradually, wherever the reign of Jesus Christ extends, there is the healing of all human brokenness.

We aim to introduce every adult and child to the person Jesus Christ, and make sure they understand His liberating gospel. We hope and pray that as we share that message with them the life transforming power of God floods into their life, wiping out the underlying sense of alienation from God, which had been the root of all their problems.

We aim to help every person find a community of other growing Christians, where they can experience and share the transforming love of Jesus Christ. The spiritual life grows best in community.

We also aim to eliminate poverty, injustice, and spiritual darkness wherever we find it around the world. We are personally active in some of the most squalid places on the planet, relieving gross human need.

God will not stop His work in the world until everything damaged by sin has been repaired. As long as He is active, so will we.

Our Mission

Our Mission is to experience and share the transforming love of Jesus Christ within our fellowship, our community, and our world.

Our History

The beginnings of Trinitarian Congregational Church occurred during a time of religious and political controversy. The regional economy was struggling to recover after the war of 1812. The American frontier was pushing westward into the "Northwest Territory" (now Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin). In Massachusetts the established church was Congregationalism, supported by local taxes, and increasingly resented by Baptists, Quakers, Catholics and others. The evangelical awakening under George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards had run its course and a reaction set in that would become the Unitarian movement.

In March 1828 six women and three men requested dismissal from the First Parish in Wayland to form a new church that was "more in accordance with Christ's teachings." They wished for a church having a higher standard of experience and of practical Christian life. A new chapel was built and dedicated in May of that year and the Trinitarian Congregational Church was formed.

T.C.C. continues to be a voice for evangelical Christianity, with active ministries to the Wayland community and surrounding towns.

Staff

The TCC staff has the responsibility of equipping the people of God for their life of worship, growth and service. Our Pastor, Jim Pocock, and his staff firmly operate out of the conviction that a healthy church is one whose people are deployed where they are spiritually gifted. For a complete listing and description of our staff members, click here.