Walnut Hill Community Church

Walnut Hill, a daughter church to Black Rock Congregational Church in Fairfield, began as a small group meeting on Sunday evenings in the summer of 1981. A number of these people had been attending Black Rock and felt led of God to establish an evangelical church in the greater Danbury area closer to where they lived. Out of that initial group came a vision that to this day still permeates our congregation. They dreamed of a church committed to: relevant, biblically based preaching and teaching warm and caring fellowship quality ministry for youth of all ages worldwide impact through cross cultural missions The church, initially known as Grace Community Church, held its first service on Sunday morning, February 7, 1982, in the Ramada Inn of Danbury. The first pastor was called the following July. In the years that followed, the church lived out of a suitcase utilizing facilities of local schools. The property on which our campus now rests (13.5 acres) was purchased in 1988. The first service was held in our original 24,000 sq. ft. multipurpose building Easter Sunday, 1996. In January of that same year, in anticipation of our move to Walnut Hill Road in Bethel, the name was changed to Walnut Hill Community Church.