CWU Spring Event, April 16

BRIDGEPORT — Sherie Roberts, a member of Newtown Congregational Church UCC, will join Conor Grennan as a speaker for the Church Women United (CWU) State Assembly on Saturday, April 16, at United Congregational Church, 877 Park Avenue. “New Horizons for Women of Faith” is the theme for the annual event, which this year also celebrates CWU’s 70th birthday.

Mrs Roberts is a full-time contracts manager in the corporate world, but attends Hartford Seminary part-time. She will be graduating from Hartford Seminary in June with a graduate certificate in spirituality. She graduated from Hartford Seminary’s  Women’s Leadership Institute in 2001, is a 2010 graduate of the Silver Dove Institute’s Art of Spiritual Guidance Program in Vermont, and is building a small practice as an interfaith spiritual director.

Mrs Roberts has done lay ministry for NCC, including being the founder and leader of SpiritSisters, a celebration held occasionally prior to formal Sunday morning worship services.

Mrs Roberts will be speaking on April 16 about the rejuvenation efforts of Church Women United, the humanitarian efforts of Mr Grennan and how those efforts led to him finding his soulmate, and will also share personal moments of her spiritual journey.

Conor Grennan is the founder of Next Generation Nepal, a not-for-profit agency that works to return children kidnapped for trafficking to their parents. He is also the author of Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal, which describes some of his experiences in rescuing these children. He is a resident Connecticut and he and his wife have one son and second child, due this month.

The Spring Assembly will open with registration at 9:30 am. There will be a short worship program, the speakers, and a luncheon. Registration is requested, and is $15 in advance, by April 11. Checks should be written to CWU-CT and mailed to Jill Shaw, Treasurer, at PO Box 227, Bethel CT 06801.

Cost will be $17 at the door. For more information, call Darlene Jackson, CWU State co-vice president, 203-426-5192.