Welcome

Sunday Services at 8:45 AM & 11:00 AM

The United Church is a wonderful church family with rich traditions and history in the community of Canandaigua, New York

Our mission is: That All Might Know, Love, and Follow the Lord Jesus Christ as Their Personal Lord and Savior.

We hope you will visit in person and learn more about our congregation. Please take a few minutes to read more about who we are and how we understand what it means to live out our faith.

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Never the Leftovers

We are beginning preparations for Thanksgiving. Family members have purchased plane tickets, and the turkey is ordered from Fisher Hill Farms. We always cook more than we need so we can enjoy the leftovers and not have to cook on the day after Tha...

Family Ministry November Update

Youth Club, our Wednesday afterschool ministry for children in 2nd-8th grade, is off to a great start with 37 children registered for the program! After school, we enjoy the four parts that make up Youth Club, which are: Recreation, Bible Study, W...

Sunday Service (Is Your Heart In It?)

The people ask whether they still need to keep the mourning fasts now that the temple is being rebuilt. God’s answer moves past the ritual to the heart behind it, and then promises a day when those fasts become feasts. What God wants is not obliga...

Sunday Service (A Work in Progress)

God’s people had been staring at a temple foundation for years with nothing to show for it, and God answers their discouragement not with a bigger effort but with his Spirit. Across Zechariah 4 through 6 the Spirit empowers the builder, clears the...

Sunday Service (A New Beginning)

Zechariah’s vision has four parts: defending Joshua from Satan’s accusations, removing Joshua’s filthy robes (representing Israel’s sin) and dressing him in fine garments, a charge given to Joshua to be obedient, and a hopeful promise of ‘the Bran...

Sunday Service (Coming to Stay)

God’s people expected judgment when the measuring line appeared, but instead received a promise: God himself was coming to live among them permanently. This sermon connects that ancient vision to its fulfillment in Christ and invites the congregat...