Who We Are

GFCC Description

Greater Framingham Community Church is an interdenominational Christian church, founded in 1972. The church was organized to meet the needs of suburbanites who desired a Black religious experience. Currently the church is the largest predominantly African-American church in the Metrowest area with a congregation that draws from African, Caribbean, and European cultures. The church offers a full array of worship, fellowship, educational, and Bible study opportunities

Programs and Opportunities include:

• Martin Luther King Day observance
• Youth Fellowship
• Cultural Programs
• Educational Programs
• Community Outreach
• Tutorial Programs for Youth
• Outreach to substance abusers and prisoners
• Assistance to the needy and homeless
• Scholarships

GFCC Vision and Mission

Vision

To become true and faithful servants of GOD, to faithfully spread the Gospel to ALL Humankind throughout the Community, Nation and the World.

Mission

To build and develop Christian maturity in a spiritually enriching environment.
To present mature Christians in Christ in the world worthy of our call a Christians.

History of GFCC

Greater Framingham Community Church is an interdenominational Christian church that was founded in 1972. It was organized to meet the needs of suburbanites who desired an African American religious experience. Considering itself as an extended Christian family, the church functions in many ways as the only immediate family, outside the primary group, for its largely transplanted membership. Today the church is the largest predominantly Black church in the Metrowest area with a congregation that draws from African, Carribean, and European cultures.

This interdenominational church is governed by a twelve member Church Council which is the policy making and executive body of the congregation. The Reverend Dr. Cameron Byrd, a United Church of Christ minister, was called in 1973 to serve as its first pastor and provided spiritual oversight for the early development of the church until called to Washington, DC in 1978. He was succeeded in 1979 by the late Reverend Harold G. Ross, Jr, a Baptist minister, who served until the Spring of 1990. While a nationwide search was conducted for a successor, the Reverend Percy Garrett, Jr. assisted the church. In April 1992, the Reverend Dr. J. Anthony Lloyd, a Baptist minister and Associate Dean of Students at Gordon College, was called to serve as the third pastor. Simultaneously, the church relocated from a leased church building at Edgell Road and Water Street in Framingham, where it held worship services for twenty years, to a building purchased from the Assembly of God Church , located at Hartford and "C" Streets on the southside of Framingham.

Under Dr. Lloyd’s leadership, the church has experienced phenomenal growth with a current membership of approximately 500 families/households, with over 200 children and youth.

Membership Development

• Providing a worship experience that glorifies GOD.
• Nurturing ALL in understanding of who we are in Christ.
• Committing ourselves to the study of the Bible, therefore, equipping us for the
• work of ministry in our home, church, community, and the world.
• Working toward peace in the world, with a common purpose and unity in our church.
  
• Praying, celebrating the sacraments, stewardship, praising the Lord, confessing our sins, teaching and preaching the Gospel unto SALVATION FOR ALL.