About VPC
Valencia Presbyterian Church
is an exceptionally warm and caring church with services that offer practical, motivating messages. The church is small enough to feel intimate and warm, but large enough to provide a wide range of programs and opportunities for ministry to help both children and adults to love and serve Christ.
We are a dynamic, growing community which is united by the love of God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to worship, to grow in Christ, to serve others and to share God's love with our families, our community and our world.
Valencia Presbyterian Church is tucked away in the small, quaint borough of Valencia, just 1½ miles south of Mars High School off of Three Degree Road. The present church has been the home of the congregation for over 100 years.
Our History
The Valencia Church was organized in 1842 as West Union Church in the area known as Treesdale Farm. The log church was supplied by visiting ministers who performed the sacraments. The first pastor was Rev. James Given. The log church was replaced by a frame building in 1858.
In 1889, the congregation organized a mission school and a Young People's Society in the Borough Hall of Valencia. In 1900, the West Union Church was abandoned and the congregation moved to Valencia. Ground was broken for a new church on Sterrett Street in Valencia on April 24, 1905. The cornerstone was laid on August 21, 1905. The church, dedicated on January 21, 1906, was known as the Valencia United Presbyterian Church.
Our Vision Statement
Our vision is to be a dynamic, growing community which is united by the love of God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to worship, to grow in Christ, to serve others and to share God’s love with our families, our community and our world.
