Welcome to the website for the First Congregational Church of Douglas.

Even as the mustard seed is very small but has the potential to grow into a large plant, so shall the Mustard Seed Project assist, encourage, and equip each person to achieve their unique, God-given potential. This is the capacity that each person has as designed by God and expressed in His Son, Jesus Christ. This entails the process of transformation of the individual and the community into the image of Christ. This is the purpose of the Mustard Seed Project.

The Project is a comprehensive youth program designed to provide a life transforming experience for its elementary, junior high, and high school groups. Mustard Seed includes a Sunday School classroom piece, the weekly youth group, and the experiential learning piece with service projects to reach out to our community as well as exciting, fun-filled activities.

The Mustard Seed Project Youth Action Team that is comprised of teachers, youth leaders, parents, Sunday School superintendents, and interested parties. They give direction and input to the Project and communicate with the Church and community regarding the program.

Our desire is for all those involved in the Mustard Seed Project to grow spirituality, and that each person may come to develop a powerful and personal relationship with Jesus through a deep, inner working of the Holy Spirit. We hope that each person will develop social competence as we encourage the skills that enable people to form and keep mutually gratifying relationships. Our plan is that we will all learn the lessons of Jesus' compassion and apply His teachings on forgiveness to real life situations. We hope that each participant will develop problem solving skills which facilitates the skill of planning, and that will enable participants to have a sense of control and hope for the future. The desire is for all to develop autonomy, which involves the insight that each person is made in God's image, though distorted by sin. The connection with this positive, coherent, inner-self (or "true self") is facilitated for each person. We encourage the belief that, through faith in Christ, a person can accomplish great things.