About Us:

We are a church who believes that we are called to be focusing upward, reaching outward, and ministering inward.  While we're a fairly traditional church, we're a community that has come to take seriously that God is in our midst calling us to be open to the new possibilities placed before us...balancing tradition with transformation.

History:

In September 1803, the Reverend Joseph Badger, a missionary sponsored jointly by the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches of Connecticut, organized a church that included the Kinsman, Vernon, and Hartford areas.  Later in 1816, the Old Grove Church was constructed and served as a house of worship for the Kinsman area.  By 1831 the Congregational and Presbyterian Church of Kinsman was formed and became independent of the three-township church.  Master-builder Willis Smith constructed the present building with remarkable speed in less than two years.  It cost about $4000.00 in 1833.  John Kinsman, son of the town founder, donated the site and his mother, Rebecca, gave about a quarter of its cost, later adding a bell for the steeple in 1850.