First Congregational Church of Bethel

UPCOMING EVENTS March 14th UCC Spring Super Saturday Cancelled April 4th FCCB Crew Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser April 10th Good Friday March 15 Third Sunday March 22 Forth Sunday April 10 Good Friday Cross Walk 12pm April 5 Palm Sunday 10am Worship April 12 Easter 10am Worship Worship Join us every Sunday @10:00am All are welcomed! J oin this Sunday for Worship. Marcia Merritt will be presenting a sermon entitled “But God Demonstrated His Own Love”       By : Doug Fannon                                        Staying Safe & Healthy Please stay home from church events or activities if feeling unwell.  If you do attend an event, please use hand sanitizer as much as possible and wash your hands.  When picking a seat for worship, offer as much space as possible.

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Church family please help us support Jill Shaw and her family. Jill is suffering from some health issues. We ask for prayers and volunteers to sign up to provide meals during this time.  MEAL TRAIN SIGN UP

We are excited to Welcome Rev. Suzanne E. Wagner. Rev. Wagner will be leading us in Worship the following Sunday's. March 22 Pastor Wagner April 5 (Palm Sunday) Pastor Wagner April 12 (Easter) Pastor Wagner April 19 Pastor Wagner April 26 Pastor Wagner Reverend Suzanne E. Wagner Reverend Suzanne E. Wagner was ordained into in the United Church of Christ in 2002 after earning her Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center, MA.   She recently ended a six-year ministry at Orange Congregational Church in Orange, Connecticut as Senior Redevelopment Pastor after serving three other area UCC churches (Olivet Congregational Church, Wilton Congregational Church and First Church Congregational,Fairfield. Currently she is a part time chaplain at Veteran’s Affairs Hospital and has just earned her fourth unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at Yale New Haven Hospital, St. Raphael’s campus in preparation for Board Certification. In addition, Rev. Wagner lived in Jerusalem for a year in 2007-08.   Reverend Wagner resides in Milford and she has three children, John, Daniel and Christine, all married, one grandson, two granddaughters! In her free time she likes to watercolor natural science and botanical subjects.

The committee has completed the Local Church Profile and sent it on to our Senior Regional UCC Minister for final review and input. Rev. Michael Ciba will be attending the committees March 31 st Tuesday meeting to discuss the review and next phase in the process such as; listing the position and the candidate search and interviews.   For any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out Mary O’Hare at; themaryohare@comcast.net Elected Officers - Committee Chairperson – Mary O’Hare Committee Recording Secretary – Claudia Anderson Committee Corresponding Secretary – Bill Beckman   May God bless us and guide us in our search.   Thank You on Behalf of the Search Committee , Mary

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