Welcome Jolene Brant!

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We are delighted that church member Jolene Brant has joined our staff as our new Coordinator for Sunday School and Youth Group! She and her husband, Philip Brant, have two boys—Noah is 13 years old, and Anderson is 8 years old. They have lived in Old Lyme for six...

Homecoming Sunday

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Homecoming Sunday is Sunday, September 10th at 10:00 am! God’s Neighborhood Sunday School program begins, and there will also be an Open House for families downstairs following the service. Our theme this year is called, Everyone’s Invited: Stories and Songs of...

FCCOL Film Screening of The Letter

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Film screening, The Letter, being shown at FCCOL on Thursday, July 27th at 7 pm. This documentary is sponsored by Interfaith Power and Light and tells the incredible story of the Laudato Si’ encyclical letter by Pope Francis, through the eyes of frontline leaders...

Grief and Loss Group

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Monthly group for those who have lost a loved one and those who continue with the challenges of caregiving. Next meetings will be Wednesday July 26th from 5:30-6:30 pm in Hoag Parlor. Co-facilitated by Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager and Mary McGannon...

Announcement about Mark

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Dear friends, I woke this morning to some very sad news that I need to share with all of you. After more than two weeks in the hospital, Mark Testori died early this morning. As recently as this past weekend, we were cautiously optimistic about Mark’s prognosis...

Rumba By the Connecticut River

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The video above is from the June 17th evening performance featuring Román Diaz and his Cuban rumba ensemble, along with two visiting rumba elders—Lazaro Galarraga and Sandy Perez. To learn more about the event, you can read the article by Banning Eyre on Afropop...

Grief and Loss Group

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Monthly group for those who have lost a loved one and those who continue with the challenges of caregiving. Next meetings will be Wednesday June 28th from 5:30-6:30 pm in Hoag Parlor. Co-facilitated by Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager and Mary McGannon...

Make Music Day

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Make Music Day in celebration of the Summer Solstice is just around the corner. Join us on Wednesday, June 21st from 5-7 pm on our church lawn and along Lyme Street to hear some fantastic bands and...

Writing at the Well

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Wednesdays 10-11 in the Library June 21st. “A good journal entry-like a good song, or sketch, or photograph-ought to break up the habitual and lift away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love...

Juneteenth Celebration of Jazz & Poetry

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The Side Door Jazz Club, located at 85 Lyme St, Old Lyme CT on Saturday, June 17 at 2 pm. (If the weather is bad, event will meet in the Meetinghouse.) In honor of Juneteenth—a federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans—the...

I Am: Muslim/American

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Join us on Friday, June 9, at 7:00 in the Sheffield Auditorium, as FCCOL, the Long Wharf Theater and PARJE (Public Art for Racial Justice Education) team up to screen an important new film, I Am: Muslim/American, produced by the Long Wharf Theater. This...