The Mission Statement of Holy Covenant United Church of Christ conveys our deepest desires as a congregation. If its words resonate with you, we hope you will come share a worship service with us.

Holy Covenant, a church for all people ~
Where love of neighbor is expressed,
Feelings of the heart are shared, and
Thinking is encouraged.
Responding to God's Love is our purpose.

"Never place a period where God has placed a comma." ~ Gracie Allen

When the Pilgrims (forebears of the United Church of Christ) left Europe for the New World in 1620, their pastor John Robinson urged them to keep their minds and hearts open to new ways. God, he said, "has yet more light and truth to break forth out of his holy Word."

We have kept our hearts and minds open ever since, listening for the word of our still-speaking God.

In the United Church of Christ (UCC), we seek and hear God’s continuing light and truth, take heart, and with faith rooted in love, rise to the challenge of the times : democracy, freedom of conscience, abolition, women’s rights, economic justice, civil rights, gay rights, marriage equality and more.

The UCC's belief in continuing revelation and consequent action is perhaps best described by the words of American actress and comedian Gracie Allen : "Never place a period where God has placed a comma."

A comma, of course, is a pause, before the speaker continues.

God is indeed still speaking, and the members and friends of Holy Covenant continue to listen, in order to create a church where all may be one.

No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome at Holy Covenant United Church of Christ.

Rev. Nancy Ellett Allison, Ph.D Pastor, Holy Covenant UCC

Dr. Nancy Ellett Allison combines vision with the ability to get things done. She has served in many capacities throughout her life as a minister. She became involved in the United Church of Christ following a move to North Carolina in 1999. Nancy first served as the Intentional Interim Pastor for Holy Covenant United Church of Christ in Charlotte from 2000-2001. She found UCC life so inviting that during her next Intentional Interim she sought and was granted standing as a UCC minister. Nancy returned as the installed pastor for Holy Covenant in October, 2004.

Nancy was ordained in 1981 at Royal Lane Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas and later served four years as a missionary in Liberia where she taught at the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary. Since returning to the United States in 1990, she was Chaplain Coordinator for Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and also Family Coordinator for the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission. Nancy was the founding pastor for CityChurch: A Baptist Community of Grace in Dallas, Texas.

Nancy earned her B.A. from Baylor University in Waco, Texas and her M.Div. and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. She has edited and written for several publications and is a popular speaker and preacher.

Nancy’s husband, Dale, serves as the Church Administrator for Myers Park Presbyterian Church in Charlotte. They have two daughters, Carole and Laura, who are about to cease being teenagers. Among her many professional responsibilities, Nancy finds time to plant lots of perennial flowers which she then neglects to weed and water!

The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination principally in the United States, generally considered to be within the Reformed tradition, and formed in 1957 by the union of two denominations, the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches.

According to our 2006 yearbook, the United Church of Christ has approximately 1.2 million members and is composed of approximately 5,633 local congregations.

Although similar in name, the UCC denomination is culturally and historically distinct from the Churches of Christ, a loose affiliation of conservative congregations that arose primarily from the Restorationist movements of the 19th-century American frontier.

The UCC uses four words to describe itself: Christian, Reformed, Congregational and Evangelical. The church's diversity and adherence to covenantal polity (rather than government by regional elders or bishops) give individual congregations a great deal of freedom in the areas of worship, congregational life, and doctrine.

The motto of the United Church of Christ comes from John 17:21: "That they may all be one."

UCC local churches become officially ONA by adopting an "Open and Affirming" statement expressing this welcome and sending this to the UCC Coalition's ONA Program. Adoption of statements is usually preceded by a period of study, prayer, reflection, and discussion on the subjects of sexual orientation/gender identity, Biblical messages about sexuality, diversity and inclusiveness in the Church, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) life and relationships, how the church might live out an ONA commitment, and related topics.

Holy Covenant has been through this process and is an Open and Affirming Congregation. Click here for more information about the The UCC Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns.