A very important meeting was held on Sunday, April 29, 1888; the first public religious meeting ever held in Acton. The group that gathered together that morning organized the Union Moral and Religious Association of Acton. Fifteen people attended that meeting. Following that first organizational meeting, regular Sunday services commenced "in the School House." The Sunday school was organized on May 20, 1888 and a "committee was selected to purchase an organ for the Association" on July 15, 1888. The organ was first used on Sunday, August 5, 1888, with Mrs. Pattee presiding at the instrument for the singing service. The organ cost $60 and was paid for by donations ranging from 85 cents to $6. Attendance ranged from 15 to 50, and careful records were kept of the business of the Association. The last entry in those early records was dated September 1, 1889.
The next available record is dated March 26, 1916, with the heading "ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH." The Acton Presbyterian Church of Acton, California was organized and chartered on March 26, 1916 by order of the Presbytery of Los Angeles. The first Annual Congregational Meeting was held the following year on March 17, 1917, and $120 was pledged for Pastoral services for the coming year. There were three Elders, five Trustees, and a membership of 17. The church paid out $76.40 that year for Home Missions, General Assembly, Church Building Fund, Congregational Expenses and miscellaneous. The first Called Congregational Meeting was held on September 5, 1920, in order "to take up the matter of a church building." Church services were still being held in the schoolhouse. The first recorded meeting of the Session is dated July 23, 1927, and that meeting was held in the new church building which had been completed and dedicated in June 1924. The minutes of the March 25, 1928 Annual Congregational Meeting record that "the Church was painted and paid for." It is also recorded that the Church received "a gift of a pulpit" from St. Paul Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. A donation of a church bell worth $120 was presented in memory of Mrs. Viola Hemming. The Acton congregation is still using both the pulpit and the bell every Sunday.
The Acton Cemetery was given to the town of Acton in 1890 by the Deuhren Family and was deeded to the Acton Church in 1923. The Cemetery has grown to 12 acres and is operated by the Acton Presbyterian Church for the people of the Acton community. The plots are free to all present and past residents of Acton.
The Church was incorporated as the Acton Community Presbyterian Church in 1923.