A message from our Co-pastorS

It is a joy and privilege to serve this community. Mandy served as Senior Pastor from October 1, 2017 until Andi’s arrival on October 19, 2025 — at which point a new leadership structure was launched. We serve as co-pastors, a structure that prioritizes collaboration and leans into an egalitarian model of leadership. We are delighted to minister, together, to and with this community of faith.

The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, United Church of Christ, is a vibrant and engaged congregation of people with an appetite for learning, for continuing to build a foundation of faith. It’s a community of seekers — people who love the questions as much as the answers. As a progressive Christian community, we are committed to trying to live as Jesus taught: loving God and loving our neighbors as ourselves. In our life together, that looks like worshipping together and holding one another in prayer. As an Open and Affirming congregation of the UCC, that looks like starting each worship service by saying that no matter who you are or where you are on your life or faith journey, you are welcome here— and it looks like asking ourselves how to keep living ever-more deeply into that promise. It looks like monthly dinners at LISTEN and Dismas House, like volunteering at the Hanover Community Food Pantry located on the 1st floor of our church, like volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. It looks like investing in solar panels as we live into being a Creation Justice Church. It looks like partnering with a sister church in Zimbabwe — sharing resources with them and learning from them.

We take great joy in where we are right now, but we know that God always has more in store for all of us. We invite you to come and help us grow — to walk together into a fuller life for all of us. If you’re curious, please visit or reach out to one of us: attend worship, watch a service on YouTube, call or e-mail us with your questions, ask us to meet you for a cup of coffee. Because truly, whoever you are and wherever you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.

We give thanks to God for the privilege of serving this community as co-pastors — for each person who enriches it with their presence.

The Rev. Mandy Lape-Freeberg & The Rev. Andi Lloyd