THE CHURCHMOUSE

THE CHURCHMOUSE
Newsletter of The First Congregational Church, Canton Center, CT
September 2016
From the Pastor
Rev. Brenda Pelc-Faszcza
Making Our Way Forward
Working for an inclusive community of love and justice doesn’t mean throwing all of us with our various beliefs into a big blender so that our believing
and belonging become homogenized. It means being able to celebrate difference and argue for our
point of view without wanting to imprison or kill
those who differ from us.
- Alan Jones
You might be chuckling at this, if you are a dyed-in
the-wool Congregationalist, born and bred in the
church of I’ll-think-my-own-thoughts-thank-you.
Or if the United Church of Christ, with its Congregational ancestry and continuingly congregational
polity, is your adopted church rather than your
original church. You might think the chances are
practically non-existent that our varied beliefs and
perspectives would ever be all homogenized into
one flattened-out, smoothed-out sameness that
would no longer reflect all our different points of
view as individuals. We know how impossible that
would really be.
Still, that doesn’t mean the fear of the flattening
doesn’t cross our minds, especially when important
and potentially controversial subjects are in front
of us to be wrestled with and figured out, as they
inevitably will be for congregations. Sometimes I
actually do hear people express an apprehension
about that, a fear that in seeking communal affirmations in a church – things we can come to claim
together as aspects of our common identity and
purpose as church – we would need to silence or
disparage those points of view that are somewhere
on the spectrum other than where the collective
position ends up. This fear, I have learned, leads
some congregations to decide they won’t deal very
openly with anything very controversial, which, of
course, leaves them not dealing with anything very
important.
We have a new church program year before us.
We are entering the next phase of what is now an
extended transitional path for this church. The
next pastoral search won’t be just yet… first we are
going to take some more time to identify the things
that we think are most important in the moving
forward and to look at them together as honestly
and openly as we can. As we continue to ask “Who
are we?” and “What are we here for, as a church?”
we can be sure there will be differently framed responses. When we ask what it means, in 2016, to
practice love and justice, we might find that we
don’t all give the same answer. Once we ask about
anything important, we’ll surely find that in some
things, we've got different ideas.
And when we do, we won’t be trying to throw
them all into one big blender. Rather, it will be our
work to express our own points of view directly and
honestly, to listen to those of others the same way
we want them to listen to us, and to be the kind of
community where each of us and all of us feel perfectly safe in saying how we see things. If we are
honest, respectful and loving in all we do, we’ll
have the kind of path forward that we want. And
in a hyper-polarized culture, we will model an alternative way to be a community of human beings
who can bring differing perspectives and experiences to bear on all important things… and still care
deeply about the bonds of belonging that underlie
all important things.
Faithfully,
Rev. Brenda
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Christian Education News
Confirmation Class, 2016-17
September Bible Study
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Our Confirmation Class of 9th graders will be gathering in
late September to begin their year together. It will be an
opportunity to explore and reflect on the "what" and the
"why" of Christian faith, to lift up the questions we have,
the wonderings that surface, the affirmations that take
hold.... We'll visit some other places of worship as we
explore why human beings worship at all, and what the
framework of religion has to do with whole and healthy
lives. And we'll help each confirmand work toward the
creating of a personal faith statement at the end of the
program.
The Sermon on the Mount
(Matthew 5-7) Part I
Rev. Brenda will be the main leader for Confirmation this
year, and will be identifying an additional adult mentor in
the church for each confirmand -- faith partners who will
be part of the journey in significant ways as we go along.
(This theme will be continued into
October and November sessions.)
Watch for a listing of our class participants and mentors,
and updates about their experiences this year!
Sometimes thought of as the centerpiece
of Jesus' teachings, the Sermon on the
Mount (which appears only in one gospel
of the four) is a challenging, provocative
and central body of Christian themes. It
includes the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, "Love your enemies," "Consider the
lilies...,"the log and the speck, and many
other teachings that challenge our
ordinary way of seeing things.
Come for small-group conversation with
others around these texts and their
meanings for us.
Facilitated by Rev. Brenda.
All welcome, no particular Bible study
background is required.
SUMMER YOUTH
MISSION TRIP
THANK-YOU DINNER:
SEPTEMBER 25
The SYF'ers would like to express their thanks to the
church for their mission trip experience this summer.
We went to the Heifer Farm in Rutland, MA In August, and came back with many stories, new knowledge,
and a much deeper understanding and appreciation of
the gifts of food, shelter and good health.
Please join us on Sunday evening, September 25th at
6:00 in the parish hall. The SYF'ers will provide a dinner
which will include recipes from Peru and East Africa, and
dessert! Also provided will be a video presentation of
the trip, story telling, and a group activity. Don't miss it!
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Christian Education News
Come for Gathering Sunday on September 11th! Registration for the upcoming church school year
will begin at 9:30 a.m. on that day. Children will report to their classrooms to meet and greet their
teachers. Registration and medical release forms were recently mailed out, but if for some reason
you did not receive one, don’t worry – we’ll have plenty of extra forms available on Sept. 11th.
Please bring completed registration forms to your child’s classroom or fill out a form that day. It is
important that we have a form each year for each student ages birth to 18! All children will begin
in worship with their families at 10 a.m., and then process to the classrooms at
the designated time.
After church, plan to stay for the All- Church Picnic. Please bring a side
dish or salad (last name begins with letter A-M) or dessert (last name
begins with N-Z) to share. The C.E. and Wider Church Fellowship
Committees will provide hot dogs, hamburgers and drinks.
Christian Education Volunteers are still needed for this year. Please consider helping out in one of
the following areas:
Nursery: we need helpers to watch and play with our little ones while parents are at worship. If
you love to play with pre-schoolers, please consider offering your assistance in our Nursery!
Junior Youth Fellowship Leaders: Pick a month to help plan and lead an activity or event for our 6 th8th graders. We like to have something planned after church once a month. It can be here at the
church or off site. Some activities in the past have been movies, mini golf, games, or bowling.
Senior Youth Fellowship Leaders: We will need volunteers to help plan and oversee activities for
our high school students. In the past, this has often involved a Sunday evening supper with fun activities at someone’s home. It’s a wonderful opportunity to get to know these wonderful young
people! We will especially be looking for SYF parents to step up and offer to host at least one activity this year – so please begin to think about how you can help!
Don’t forget your summer rays of light project! At the beginning of summer, we handed out paper
stars and diamonds for you to take home and jot down ways that you shined or you saw others
shining. Bring your stars and diamonds back to church on Gathering Sunday, September 11, and we
will create a collage depicting how bright we are!
Good luck and God’s blessing to all our young people who are starting school either close to home
or off at college. Our thoughts and prayers are with you!
We are continuing to search for a “Director of Faith Formation for Children & Youth” – in the
meantime, we need all of you to consider how you can help out in maintaining our programs for
children and youth. Thank you in advance from your CE Committee members:
Bob Oswald (chair)
Katie Mankowski
Andy Rees
Cindy Webb
Casey Levine
Dennis Mitchell
Linda Solomon
Diane Mankowski
Nancy Parshley
Cliff Walker
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Trustees News
Polly Rice, Chairperson
What a busy summer it's been! The summer months
allowed the Trustees to work on projects in and
around the church. Projects completed are: carpets
cleaned throughout the church, painting of the walls
in the sanctuary below the chair rail, trees have been
trimmed around the property, corner boards on the
building will be replaced.
Our church secretary left us in July - leaving a gaping
hole in our staff needs. Brenda, Cora and I spent the
last month creating the advertisement for the secretary, culling through the 30 resumes that were submitted, interviewing seven candidates and choosing
our new secretary. Please welcome Kristen DiMattia we are very excited to have her join our church staff
and have her get to know our church family.
Look for the upcoming information about the
Stewardship Campaign that will start in September.
I had many conversations with Bill Borchert to help
him move along the projects to refurbish the schoolhouse. Bill tirelessly worked to have our church receive a generous check which is funded by a direct
contribution through the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation. A major step has taken place - the
outside of the schoolhouse has been painted. Take a
look at the schoolhouse next time you are in Canton
Center!
Special Thanks for Summer Help in the Church Office
While we were without a church secretary for more
than a month this summer, there were many tasks that
had to be done by others, both for regular ongoing
office functions and for the process of finding and hiring
a new secretary. Thank you to all the church members
who offered assistance in various ways. And special
thanks to Polly Rice (Trustees), Cora Mutch (President)
and Rina Pane (Assistant Treasurer), who gave enormous amounts of time and energy to cover all that
needed to be done.
Welcome to Our New Church Secretary!
We are pleased to share the news that Kristen DiMattia
began as our new secretary on August 29. She comes
to us with ten years' experience as the secretary for St.
John's Episcopal church in Bristol, so is well acquainted
with the workings of a church office. As she becomes
acclimated to our particular church, please be sure to
stop and introduce yourself if you are in the building.
Kristen has lived in Bristol all her life, and is the mother
of four: Lauren, 23, Josh, 18, Julia, 16, and Alex, 15.
Her free-time interests include painting and traveling.
Her hours in our church office will be 9 to 4, Monday
through Friday, and she can be reached by email at
[email protected].
Music Notes
Mary Lou Keefe, Director of Music
START UP DATES FOR CHOIRS
Senior Choir: Sept 12th
Handbell Choir: Sept 8th
On September 12th, Marilyn Larose will be hosting a pot luck dinner for the members of the Senior Choir.
As well as dinner, there will be a short rehearsal. Time to be announced.
The first meeting of the bell choir on September 8th will take place in the music room with a listening session.
Regular rehearsals will start up on September 15th.
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Deacons’ Bench
Kathleen J. Byko, Deacon
Sermons & Songs on Our Website
We hope to see our congregation’s members and friends in person at Sunday services, to share fellowship and build a spirit
of Christian community. One of the key tenets as followers of Jesus Christ is that we are not intended to stand alone in our
faith, but rather to join with others in building up His kingdom here “on earth as it is in Heaven” thru worship, works and
mutual growth – a community of believers sharing the journey.
Yet there are times when life’s demands keep us away on Sunday. Work, travel, health issues, kids’ schedules impinge on
weekend personal time. Sometimes it’s plain old fatigue, physical or mental, wanting a break from that Sunday morning
commitment. Thanks to the efforts and skills of some dedicated individuals in our congregation, we are blessed with a beautiful, engaging website that brings Rev. Brenda’s weekly sermons and some of our special music to anyone with an internet
connection!
Our website address is www.cantoncenterchurch.org – not hard to remember, right?! The home page features six
rotating pictures which offer a glimpse of the breadth of FCCCC’s scope, a visual invitation to our Church community. Which is your favorite?? Notice how thoughtfully they’ve been assembled, with a flow to invite you in, enrich
and inspire, and carry you back out into the world. Just below those picture-images are good-sized “icons” – simple
graphic symbols, along with a descriptive word or two – which will take you to that topic with one click. For instance, you’ll recognize our familiar Churchmouse in choir robe to take you to the monthly newsletter! “Sermons &
Music” are represented by a traditional ‘play’ button icon, the right-pointing triangle within a circle. Click or
tap the icon to pull up a page of “Sermons & Other Highlights: Selected Recordings from our Services” and scroll
down to choose a sermon by title/date or a piece of music presented during worship.
When/Why Listen?
Listen to a sermon or music while driving in the car, gardening in your yard, cleaning house, waiting in the doctor’s office, recuperating in bed. Mobile devices bring it anywhere you want!
Take a tablet, iPad, or smartphone along when visiting a shut-in and play the music/sermon for that person to hear. Offer
spiritual nourishment as well as the opportunity to be connected to the Sunday experience of our church, hearing
what we hear and using it as a springboard for meaningful discussion if appropriate.
Revisit particular parts of a favorite sermon: you can bookmark or note the time of the clip to return to a specific part that
you want to listen to and think about more.
If brave enough – or foolish enough – to discuss religion with family/friends, I can refer them to Rev Brenda’s actual
sermon rather than rely solely on my paraphrasing, which is never as eloquent or thorough in building up the logical
and spiritual train of thought to carry the conversation adequately. Her words and manner of presenting say it best.
Members and friends who haven’t been around FCCCC for a while can get acquainted with the philosophy and approach of
our new-ish minister, Rev. Brenda Pelc-Faszcza, by listening to her sermons online. Rev. Brenda has been leading our flock
for a whole year now and is our “designated” minister, not a short-term interim position. Those of us in attendance are very
pleased to share the uplifting, thought-provoking messages she offers us each week. We want you to get a hint of what
you’re missing, and come back to see us in person!
Refer a friend or neighbor to our website for them to get a feel for our church and our minister. Alleviate some potential
hesitance about showing up and feeling awkward or pressured in a new environment. We think they’ll like what
they see and hear!
Our dual goals for recorded sermons and music are OUTREACH and INVITATION: reach out to those unable to attend on Sunday morning with spiritual enrichment, and, invite those who can to join us in person for the holistic experience
of Christian community.
There is SO much more to our website: it was crafted with thoughtful intention in every detail. Perhaps we can do a scavenger hunt sometime to find all the history and symbolism tucked within! The Diaconate is so very appreciative of the incredible time and talent invested by our master web creator Dennis Mitchell, aided and abetted by Bob Oswald and Jerry Alonzy.
Please enjoy this treasure and tool for the journey. Listen and hear the messages that God is still speaking!
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Missions and Outreach
Kristin Oswald, Co-Chair
The Missions & Outreach Committee worked throughout the summer to help out those in need
which, unfortunately tends to be year-round. Our garden tending skills were rewarded with 10
deliveries of vegetables, including summer squash, zucchini, broccoli, cucumbers and lots of
tomatoes, to the Canton Food Bank every Tuesday morning. Many thanks to Art Mauger, leader of the garden box mission project, Carol and Dave Heyer, Kathy Pickrell, David Polyestewa,
Steve Byko and Bob and Kristin Oswald for handling all the chores associated with cultivating
these garden boxes through to delivery of delicious, healthy food for Canton families who
greatly appreciate fresh produce in their diets. (picture of veggies will be included)
Kristin Oswald helped a Canton youth sentenced with Community Service duty to complete her
20-hour assignment by supervising weeding and harvesting of the garden boxes, cleaning
nursery toys and sweeping and mopping some of the Church School classrooms on two Saturday mornings in July.
Gail Macbeth collected, collated and delivered 12 school backpacks filled with church member-donated school supplies.
Kristin Oswald brought another four late drop-offs to our Wellmore representative, Jennifer Dion, who reported that our
church’s donations fulfilled their requests and that she is very grateful for our Church’s generosity.
On Saturday, August 20th, our church was one of several who participated in a town-wide Interfaith Blood Drive which was
held at the Church of Latter Day Saints. Kathy Pickrell and Kristin Oswald volunteered at the Registration table and Canteen for the first part of the 9am-1pm event where 39 donors came in and were able to provide 34 pints of lifesaving blood.
Each of those donations could save up to three lives! Thank you to Kim Treadwell, Carole Fisher and Kristin Oswald for
making fruit salad to serve at the post-donation rest stop.
September Mission Box collection will be snack items for the weekend backpack program, to be given to Gifts of Love.
Respectfully submitted,
Kristin Oswald
Co-Chair, Missions & Outreach Committee
Becoming a "Green" Church
Through the Church Assessment Tool (CAT) that we
completed in January, 2016, more than two-thirds of
our congregation expressed the view that we should
become a "green church," meaning that we become
more knowledgeable and intentional about our use
of resources and develop practices to help us be
good stewards of the earth and of our church's own
resources.
The United Church of Christ has a "Green Church"
program that involves several levels of "greenness,"
with clear steps and goals for each. There are lots of
materials and resources available, we just need to
have a coordinating team to help us become more
focused on this as a whole church.
If this is of interest to you -- adult or youth -- please
speak up, we need you! Please contact:
Rev. Brenda at [email protected],
or at the church office, 860-693-4581.
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Connecticut Conference, U.C.C.
Report from the 149th Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ (CUCCC),
June 10-11, 2016, at University of Hartford
By Kim Treadwell and Jim Magennis
The 149th Annual Meeting was primarily comprised of three components: prayer/worship, business meeting, and discussion
sessions.
The business meeting focused on 4 resolutions that were brought to a vote.
Increase the per capita contribution rate to the CCUCC in 2017 from $8 to $10. Resolution approved.
Implement gender neutral restrooms at churches and at annual meeting sites – resolution approved.
Ask CUCCC state lobbyist to support state mandated reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and increase renewable
energy resources in CT. Resolution passed
Ask CUCCC state lobbyist to oppose further legalization of marijuana in CT to approve it for recreational purposes. Resolution opposed.
Implement enactment of minimum wage of $15 per hour by CT legislature and support that minimum wage in the congregations of the CUCCC. Resolution on hold due to lack of time.
Discussion Sessions
In September 2015 the Boards of RI, MA and CT UCC Conferences voted to adopt a resolution to use the 2015-2016
program year as a season of discernment regarding federating or merging the three conferences in the 2016-2017 calendar years.
Multiple focus groups to discuss the potential merger of CT, Mass, and R.I. UCC conferences were conducted, results
funneled to CUCCC staff. Groups discussed the following structured questions:
What are the resources, programs and services that your Conference currently provides for your local church?
How has your church been elivened through interdependence and collaboration with other congregations?
How might your church’s witness be strengthened through a new partnership with the other two Conferences?
How would you imagine your church in 5 or 10 years from now? Mow might your local church be different if RI, MA
and CT were to become partners?
What are you concerns and wonders about the possibility of an emerging partnership?
YOU CAN WEIGH IN
An online survey is available to all members https://www.research.net/r/RIMACT
More information about CUCCC can be found at http://www.ctucc.org
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First Congregational Church, Canton Center
A Leadership Orientation Event
Sunday, September 18, 2016
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
For all elected lay leaders of the church
(Church Council members, officers, delegates,
all members of all committees) and staff
President, Vice-President, Council Member-at-Large, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Clerk, Deacons, Trustees,
Christian Education Committee, Music Committee, Missions & Outreach Committee, Nominating Committee,
Delegates to the UCC Farmington Valley Association and UCC Connecticut Conference,
Wider Church Fellowship Committee, Publicity Chairperson,
Strawberry Festival, Harvest Fair & Chicken Pie Supper Chairs, Staff
Facilitated by our pastor, this will be an opportunity for all those serving in
church leadership to review together our leadership structure as a system
of interdependent parts and the communication, coordination and
support efforts that can help us all work best together.
Moving Forward: Exploring "Open and Affirming" (ONA)
Through the Church Assessment Tool (CAT) that we completed in January, 2016, more than half our congregation
expressed the view that we should explore the possibility of officially becoming and Open and Affirming (ONA)
congregation. In response, we are looking to embark on that process in this upcoming church year.
ONA congregations are those who intentionally adopt and make public a statement of inclusiveness, indicating
that all are welcome to participate fully in the life of that congregation, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, or economic status. Statements of inclusiveness can be variously
worded, as they are created by each local church, but they all reflect the same basic commitment to full inclusiveness as an embodiment of love and justice in a faith community.
Using tools provided by the United Church of Christ, we would engage in a process of conversation, education,
discernment and decision-making as a church, over a period of months.
The Church Council is seeking a small number of church members to be a coordinating team who will work with
Rev. Brenda to develop our process. If you have an interest in this issue and/or are willing to work on moving
the process forward, please contact Brenda at [email protected] or at the church office phone
number: 860-693-4581.
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THE SCHOOLHOUSE PROJECT
Update on the Refurbishment of
the 1848 Canton Center Schoolhouse
If you have recently been by the church, you may have
noticed that our historic little one-room schoolhouse
across the road has been painted -- the paint job
entirely funded by a direct contribution through the
Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation. We are
excited that our plans to refurbish this 1848 "jewel of
a building with historic significance" (as on architect
has called it) are moving forward!
The hope is to be able to complete additional needed
work (such as a new roof and various miscellaneous
repairs) so that this building -- once South Center
District School, later Cherry Brook Library, now
belonging to the church -- can be offered in an outreach to the wider community as a venue for such
possible uses as art exhibits, small performances,
children's recitals, and other kinds of cultural events,
while keeping it a part of the historic charm of Canton
Center for years to come.
More information will be forthcoming as the needed
funds for the ongoing work are sought from individual
and community donations. We are grateful to Bill
Borchert for his continued stewardship of this effort if
you have any questions about the project, or interest
in supporting it, please contact Bill directly at
[email protected] or
at [email protected].
SCRIP IS BACK!
September is here! Services at Canton Center are
back and so is Scrip! The “Scrip Store” will be open
in the parish hall every week, at 9:45am and again
during coffee hour. During these periods, you can
purchase gift cards, which will be available for pick
up the following week, and pick up cards you ordered the week before. You can pay by cash or a
check made out to the church – be sure to note
“Scrip” in the memo line. In another month or so,
we should be able to have an inventory of popular
cards for immediate purchase. However, since we
need to buy those in advance, we need to make
enough money first!
Remember, Scrip is an easy way you can help raise
money for the church by buying gift cards for
everyday expenses like groceries, gas, clothing,
restaurants and gifts. The best part about Scrip is
that you pay for exactly what you get and the
church makes money by purchasing the gift cards
at less than face value. The key to a successful
program is to make Scrip part of your weekly routine! You’ll be amazed at how quickly the funds
raised add up and how YOU are making a difference.
See Casey Levine or Karen Needham for more
information, and visit www.shopwithscrip.com
to see the full list of retailers.
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Church Family News
PRIME TIMERS LUNCH
SEPTEMBER 14th at 11:15 a.m.
Congratulations to...
The Prime Timers group will meet at
the church at 11:15 a.m. on Wed.,
September 14, and carpool to
Lost Acres in Granby, for lunch.
We'll sit on the porch and have a
yummy buffet! It was a great time
last year, so be sure to put this on
your calendar.
Karen Needham, on the birth of grandson
Clay Alden Rosenthal on July 22, 2016.
Parents are Jenn (Karen's daughter)
and Keene Rosenthal.
Jim and Gina Magennis, on the marriage
of their daughter Megan to Nick Milo,
July 30, 2016, in Fayetteville, West Virginia.
Anyone is welcome.
Contact person:
Gail Macbeth, 860-677-5050.
MEMBER-TO-MEMBER
CARING MINISTRY
“We cannot seek health or well-being or justice or kindness or compassion ‘in general.’ Action is
always specific, concrete, Individualized, unique.”
One of the most profoundly important ministries of a church is the embodied expression of care among its members for each other – concrete, individualized acts of support, compassion and presence…a visit, a call, a card, a
ride, a meal.
We have a group of dedicated church members who are intentional about offering care to other members, as
needs become known. The group meets periodically with the pastor to review needs. We encourage our congregation as a whole to keep this ministry in mind, and to let needs to be known -- sometimes what we think is
widely known within the church is not, and situations come and go where we would like to have offered some
form of care, had we been aware. It's a good idea to start by contacting the pastor if you have a thought about a
need, your own or someone else's. Where appropriate, the pastor can engage other church members from
there.
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September 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
AA 11:00 p.m.
4
5 Labor Day
Worship 10:00
with Communion
12
Worship 10:00
Gathering
Sunday
7
AA 7:00 pm
13
Sr. Choir
Pot Luck
Trustee’s
Meeting 7 pm
AA 7:00 pm
Boy Scouts 7pm
18
Worship 10:00
Committee
Leadership
Workshop
11:30 a.m.
25
19
20
9
10
Handbell
Choir
AA 11:00 p.m.
Al Anon 11 am
14
15
Prime Timers
Lunch 11:15 am
16
Council
Meeting 7 pm
AA 11:00 p.m.
Al Anon 11 am
21
17
22
23
24
AA 11:00 p.m.
Boy Scouts 7pm
26
AA 7:00 pm
27
Worship 10:00
Mission Trip
“Thank You”
Dinner 6:00 pm
8
Deacons
Meeting
6:30 pm
(Office Closed)
Boy Scouts 7pm
11
6
Al Anon 11 am
28
Bible Study
10:30-12 noon
Boy Scouts 7pm
AA 7:00 pm
Al Anon 11 am
29
30
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The First Congregational Church
(United Church of Christ)
184 Cherry Brook Road
P O Box 133
Canton Center, CT 06020-0133
Rev. Brenda Pelc-Faszcza
Interim Pastor
The First Congregational Church
184 Cherry Brook Road PO Box 133
Canton Center, CT 06020-0133
Office
Phone: (860)693-4581
Kristen DiMattia, Secretary
E-mail: [email protected]
M-F 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Pastor
Phone: (860)693-4207
Rev. Dr. Brenda Pelc-Faszcza
[email protected]
Director of Christian Education & Youth:
Phone: (860)693-4182
[email protected]
Organist/Director of Music:
Mary Lou Keefe
[email protected]
We’re on the Web!
Visit us at:
www.cantoncenterchurch.org
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