History and Mission

Welcome to your Insurance Board! We are a property and liability insurance program created for churches by churches. We were founded on one guiding principle: making churches safer places for ministry, and we believe that good stewardship means caring for each other.Our mission statement expresses our covenant this way:

Our mission is to support and protect churches and church ministries by offering superior property and casualty risk and insurance management services.

We have been serving churches for almost three decades. In 1979 a local church trustee and entrepreneur in northern California felt that churches could improve insurance costs and improve services by forming group policies. Equally important, he realized that the money saved by the churches could be put toward mission opportunities.

By 1981 a group insurance program was established in northern California. Within a year, six western conferences had joined. The insurance board is owned by the 38 UCC conferences.

In 1991, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), joined the program which was strongly endorsed by the Executive Committee of the Conference of Regional Ministers and Moderators. 

January 1, 2002 marked the beginning of the United Church Insurance Company, a nonprofit captive insurance company subsidiary of the UCCIB – designed to take advantage of new opportunities for insuring church-related organizations such as retirement housing and educational institutions.

Currently, more than 2,300 church organizations participate in our program with a combined value of more than $5.4 billion in assets covered – and these numbers are consistenly increasing. Also worth noting are the multitude of stories regarding exceptional service and stewardship over the past three decades.

We are happy to include you as part of the UCCIB story: a story of church people who want the best church insurance available, a story of people who know the experience of “church” as a value.

We Care As Much About Your Church As You Do!