Our First Church of Christ in Woodbridge is a member of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a denomination that now can be found from coast to coast. Our origins are in New England. We are direct spiritual descendants of the Pilgrims that landed on Plymouth Rock. As refugees from the persecution they were experiencing in England, they immigrated to the New World to find freedom of religion. They had wished each parish to be separate, allowed to call its own pastor, and to be able to worship in the form that each congregation chose. As a result, they were referred to as “Congregationalists” or, disparagingly, as “Separatists.”