History  

The Church was organized in February 1781 by thirty members who called its first Pastor, Paul Litchfield, in November of that year. He served until his death in 1827. After the townspeople (who paid the pastor’s salary then) refused to accept the pastor selected by the members of the church, those members formed the Union Calvinistic Society of Carlisle in 1830. In 1832, the Society built a meetinghouse, and a parsonage was built later in 1848. This parsonage was sold in 1945 and property near the church was bought and remodeled as a parsonage. Since the church was incorporated in 1903 as the Carlisle Congregational Church, the Union Calvinistic Society was dissolved in 1904.

For the past two centuries it has been faithful to a sound Biblical witness. It is associated with the National Association of Evangelicals, and is a member of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference.