History of UCC

In an effort to transmit the Stone-Campbell message of Christianity to future generations, Disciples founded a number of institutions of higher learning, especially during the period following the Civil War.

One of these institutions, Texas Christian University, gave birth to a "university church" as well. Beginning as the ream of Joseph Addison Clark and his wife Hettie, the school was originally established by their two eldest sons, Addison and Randolph Clark, in 1873 in a community forty miles southwest of Fort Worth known as Thorp Spring.

In 1895, the school and its "university church" moved to Waco, but a devastating fire destroyed this campus in 1910. An invitation to relocate to Fort Worth was extended and accepted, and university and church moved to their present location on "the hill" in 1911.

TCU and University Christian Church continued to operate together until funds were finally secured to build a separate "church house" for the congregation.

On March 5, 1933, the day when all the nation's banks were closed by presidential order because our nation was in the depths of a severe economic depression, the cornerstone of University Christian Church was laid. Worship services were first held in the new but unfinished building in May, 1933.

This "university church," where "town and gown" worshipped together, experienced continued growth through the years and has now become one of the largest and most visible local congregations affiliated with The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

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