First Church of Christ Congregational Clinton, CT.
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Come join us at our Annual Lenten Supper Series. Each week we gather in our parish hall to enjoy a potluck meal followed by an informative lecture based on the discussion topic. If you would like to come to the potluck dinner please plan on attending at 6:30 pm and bring along a covered dish or food item. If you just want to come for the lecture please arrive at 7:15 pm. This year our Lenten Supper Series is entitled Chaplains and Their Ministries to Our Community and World. Chaplaincy is a crucial ministry that brings God’s love to people through various institutional settings. Chaplains extend the care and outreach of the church to people who are in need of God’s grace, healing, and mercy, and are messengers of hope to those in very difficult and life-threatening situations It is hard for us to imagine what our lives and the lives of our loved ones would be like without chaplains in our midst. On February 13, the Rev. Ron Huffman who is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve will speak to us about his military chaplaincy. The Rev. Huffman is an ordained Southern Baptist minister who has attended and led worship in our church. We kept him in our prayers during his 15-month deployment in Iraq and Kuwait, and we thank God for his recent and safe return to his family. On February 20, the Rev. Laurie W. Etter, the Protestant chaplain at the York Women’s Correctional Institution in Niantic, will be the speaker. The Rev. Etter has served in this capacity for 28 years and is a well-known and respected clergyperson in the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ and throughout our entire state. On February 27, the Rev. Gregory Perry who is the chaplain at Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown will be with us. The Rev. Perry is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches. He has served as the chaplain at the Norwich State Hospital and is also presently serving as the pastor of the Greenville Congregational Church in Norwich. On March 5, the Rev. Edward C. Goetz, an ordained Episcopal priest in the Connecticut Diocese, will talk to us about his work as a chaplain in the Connecticut State Police and the Connecticut Firefighters associations. The Rev. Goetz has also served as the chaplain to the Middletown Police and Fire Departments, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Connecticut Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association, and the Haddam and Killingworth Volunteer Fire Companies. |