Winchester Community Church started as a neighborhood group meeting in various homes in 1928. Several Protestant families had moved from the city and it seemed too far to travel back for church. So they met in homes, and also had a Sunday School in the attic of the Barnsdale home of the Schattners. They purchased land on the corner of Arcade and Collins and in 1929, a wooden structure was built, with the help of finances from the Congregational denomination. Therefore, it became Winchester Congregational Church. Various pastors served, with Rev. Vey serving the longest, about 10 years. In the early 1950s Rev. Wellard led the church in leaving the denomination to become a community church. Rev. Landru served as pastor in the late 1950s and in 1963 a brick church was built and attached to the wooden building.

Rev. Tom Dalbo started his ministry in the beginning of 1965 and 10 years later the congregation bought the Acme Market on Harlem Road to accommodate needs for more space. The men and women of the church did most of the major remodeling, and the church has been a witness on the north end of West Seneca for many, many years. In the mid 1990s, the church joined the Evangelical Free Denomination, which is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Winchester is the only EFCA church in the Buffalo area. Winchester Community Church has a strong presence in the town with its social service and outreach ministries and was named "Service Organization of the Year" by the Chamber of Commerce in 2004. This was a great honor - and Winchester is the only chruch that has received this recognition. All of the former pastors are deceased, and after almost 47 years of service, Pastor Dalbo has entered a new phase for him...a well earned retirement. The church has honored and distinguished him with the title of Pastor Emeritus.

We have now begun another chapter, led by Pastor Drapeau. Pastor Jason Drapeau comes to us from Bloomington, MN, Williamsport, PA, and Salem, MA, where he had previously taught public high school mathematics for 8 years. Feeling the desire and God's call to the ministry, he pursued and received his Master of Divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, with an emphasis in Urban Ministry. The congregation unanimously voted in August, 2011 to call him to be their shepherd in the next chapter of Winchester Community Church, where he has been serving since November 6, 2011.