First Congregational Church welcomes people from all racial and economic backgrounds and has a prominent music ministry.

The current senior minister, Dr. Reverend Dwight Andrews, is also a professor of music at Emory University.

The American Missionary Association (AMA) established the Storrs School in Atlanta.

The school served as a center for social services, education, and worship for newly freed blacks.

The church's first service was held on May 26, 1867, and its first ten members included Reverend and Mrs. Frederick Ayer and Atlanta University's first president Edmund Asa Ware.