Sacred Spaces: First Congregational Church | Indianapolis

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By TAHLIB


INDIANA---First Congregational Church bills itself as a progressive,  inclusive, spiritually alive servant community. I was invited to attend for the Good Friday, a stoic and somber experience for any church, and this was true for First Congregational Church as well. They are part of the United Church of Christ family of churches. However in general, they offer two distinct opportunities for worship. First, their "New Creation" worship which is varied and nontraditional with drama, contemporary music and dance. “You never know what will happen this week,” said one worshipper. The second at 11am is their Traditional worship which offers "challenging and thoughtful preaching" along with traditional music. The structure is a huge beautiful New England style sanctuary, and starkly unadorned in terms of artistry or scultptural works, but it does sit on a nice parkland campus, and even as a Baptist art-evangelist, I felt very welcomed.