Experiencing “No Room at the Inn”

God’s Neighborhood, our Sunday School program, will be holding an event called “Sharing Our Humanity with the Unhoused” (formerly called “Box Night”) where our junior and senior high school students will sleep overnight on the church’s lawn.  They will hear from a...

Walking In Their Footsteps

A 5-day civil rights learning trip for teens during April vacation. We will fly round trip to Atlanta, Georgia and visit sights there and drive to Birmingham, Alabama, among other places. For more information, email Jolene Brant at jmbrant2023@gmail.com or Laura...

Dante Readers Meeting

To those who have signed up to read a canto of Dante’s Purgatorio on Maundy Thursday, there will be a preparatory meeting on Sunday, March 17, at 11:30 in the Sheffield Auditorium. We’ll discuss some logistics for the evening. Canto translations will be...

March 10, 2024 Sermon

Turning Our Faces Toward Jerusalem Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Luke 9: 51-62; Matthew 26: 36-39 There are two sacred legacies toward which the architecture of this Meetinghouse gestures: that of Athens and that of Jerusalem. ...