The Sebago Center Community Church was formed March 31,1856, by a group of 10 men who pledged $100 or an average of 100 days' pay, to erect a "meeting house". The building was erected during the summer of that year with completion the following April. The records reveal that one man and a yoke of oxen took an entire day to go to the nearest railroad station at Steep Falls to collect a load of mate
rial and return with them to the church site. The building was used by two groups- a Congregational Society centered at the Baldwin Congregational and a Sebago Baptist congregation-until 1876 when the two groups merged to support a full-time community minister. In 1895, a Congregational Society separate from the Baldwin Church was formed as the Union Congregational Church of Sebago and actively continued until the mid -1920's when interest and support began to dwindle. There followed a long period of time when the church was either opened for only short intervals or was closed entirely except for summer and special occasions. But as the twentieth century passed its mid-point, history repeated itself. People living in or near Sebago Center again wanted a church, and on June 29,1952, the church was reopened permanently as the Sebago Center Community Church. On Sunday, August 11, 1957 a gala celebration marked the Church's centennial anniversary, At the time, a stone chipped from a huge granite slabs that formed the foundation of the church was hollowed out and inscribed for the missing corner stone. Inside the hollow of the stone is a copper box which contains material appropriate to the history of the church.
