First Presbyterian Church, New Haven

Welcome to the First Presbyterian Church of New Haven.

We hope you will worship with us and give us the opportunity to welcome you in person.

First Presbyterian Church is a worshiping community of progressive Christian believers in the greater New Haven region. We are a broadly diverse and welcoming congregation, and include people from the city of New Haven and all of the surrounding towns, as well as many from the university communities.

We gather on Sunday morning to worship God, and throughout the week to be about the work of God in the world. We are a part of the Reformed tradition, which means that we value the Word of God in Scripture, and as we understand it in the midst of today’s world.

Learn more about our community of faith.

David Beckmann President Bread for the World to Visit!

Come and hear David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World, on Sunday evening, January 15th at 7 p.m.

Bread for the World (of which our church is a member) is a non-partisan citizens’ movement urging our nation’s leaders to adopt policies and programs to alleviate conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist. Started in New York City in 1974 by a small group of Protestants and Catholics, the movement, now based in Washington DC, includes a broad spectrum of some 50 church organizations and faith communities. It is one of the largest organizations in the world dedicated to building the political will to end hunger and poverty.

David Beckmann is no stranger either to New Haven or to the issues of hunger and poverty. A graduate of Yale College and the London School of Economics, he and his spouse served some 15 years in South America and Asia before he became president of Bread for the World in 1991.

Join us in the unique opportunity to learn more about the work of Bread for the World and its related partners in the Alliance to End Hunger, and also to meet David Beckmann, the recipient in 2010 of the World Food Prize.