About Us

Vision: a Christ-centered, compassionate community gathering for all to hear the Gospel, grow in faith, and serve others.  

Mission:  helping all experience, believe, and live God's Love.

We are the Disciples of Christ, a movement for wholeness in a  fragmented world. As part of the one body of Jesus Christ, we welcome  all to the Lord’s Table as God has welcomed us.

Symbols and practices of unity.  The Lord’s Supper or Communion is celebrated in weekly worship. It is  open to all who are followers of Jesus Christ. We practice believer's baptism. When one is able to profess faith, they are baptized. However, we do not require rebaptism to join our congregation. 

The First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Fulton, Mo. began on  the frontier of the United States during the early 1800’s. (Read History) The First Christian Church of Fulton was organized in  the fall of 1833 by members of the Christian Church just one year after  Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell met in Lexington, Kentucky and  agreed to combine their efforts for the kingdom of God. Barton W.  Stone’s son, a physician, was a lifelong active member and Elder of the  First Christian Church, Fulton. A book about our local church is  available if you are interested in reading more.

The chalice bearing the “X-shaped” cross of St. Andrew was adopted as  the symbol of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) by the General  Assembly of the church in 1971. The chalice symbolizes the centrality of  the Lord’s Supper to Disciples life. 

The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) grew out of two movements  seeking Christian unity that sprang up almost simultaneously in western  Pennsylvania and Kentucky – movements that were backlashes against the  rigid denominationalism of the early 1800s. 

Established 1941 

Logo-“The Three Streams Cross” Vision

Celebrating our past and telling its hard truths, we seek a church empowered to make history now and thus to shape a future ever more faithful to God’s dream of unity and justice for all. 

Mission

The mission of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society is to preserve and proclaim the story of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) within the context of the broader Stone-Campbell tradition out of which it grows.