The Lansing congregation is similar to an extended family.  Within our community, senior members are cherished, children are nurtured, youth are involved, parents are supported, and adults are nourished.

    Our worship at 10 AM on Sundays is informal, participatory, and varied.  Childcare is provided for toddlers and preschoolers during worship.  We provide interactive Sunday school classes for children, youth, and adults September through May.

    We are known in the community for our commitments to peace and justice.

• In the 70's the congregation settled refugees from Southeast Asia and was active in the movement for nuclear disarmament.
• In the 80's we provided sanctuary for a large family from El Salvador.
• In the 90's when Rich Buckwalter, our co-pastor, was diagnosed with ALS, the congregation changed parsonages and put an elevator in the church building to make it accessible for wheel-chair users and others.  During that decade we also joined the Supportive Congregations Network as publicly accepting and affirming of persons with a homosexual orientation.

    Presently many of our members work with a local shelter for the homeless.  Several are active in Disaster Childcare both locally and nationally.  Our Board Chair was in New York City doing childcare for three weeks after the September 11 attack. We frequently sponsor disadvantaged children for a week at Camp Brethren Heights.  Our youth have assumed leadership in the Youth Fellowship of the Michigan District.

    We are participating in the World Council of Churches Decade to Overcome Violence.  We have signed and are committed to the Congregation Pledge of Nonviolence sponsored by the Institute for Peace and Justice.

    In the past 20 years, the Lansing congregation has shared our sanctuary with three other congregations who have rented the space for their own worship.  For some of that time there were 3 congregations worshiping at different times on Sundays.  Currently, Ecclesia of Greater Lansing holds their weekly worship service on Sunday evenings.

    The Lansing congregation first met as an independent entity on October 7, 1928, following several years as a part of the Sunfield congregation.  The congregation's first church building was located at 1229 E. Prospect St. and was purchased from the German Baptists.  The current building on the corner of S. Washington and Loa Streets was constructed in 1952.