BAHA’I FAITH OF NEWTOWN

Contact Margo Deslin • 364-1167; wintonfarms@aol.com

Devotional meetings; spiritual discussion meetings; discussions of social issues from a religious perspective. The meetings are held at various locations in Newtown. Call 364-1167 for meeting locations or questions.

 

BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH

35 Sugar Street (Route 302); 426-6484

Pastor Steve Plodinecbbcct@attglobal.net

Sunday: Children’s Sunday School, Teen’s Group and Adult Bible Group 9:30 am; Worship Service 10:45 am with nursery and Children’s Church; Evening Bible Study 7:30 pm Wednesday.

 

CALVARY INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH

3 Side Cut Road (near the RR station), Redding; 938-1317

Kenneth Brooks, Pastor

Sunday School, 10 am, Sunday morning service, 11 am; Sunday evening service, 6 pm; Wednesday evening service, 7 pm, nursery care provided.

 

CHRIST THE KING LUTHERAN CHURCH

85 Mt Pleasant Road at Tory Lane  •  426-6300 or 426-0651

Gregory Wismar, Pastor

 Johanna Perry, Parish Worker

The Christmas Eve service of Candles and Carols will be held on Friday at 7:30. The choir will sing the anthem “Star of Wonder.” The Christmas Day Festival Service will be celebrated on December 25 at 10:30 am. The choir will sing the anthem “Amid the Cold of Winter.” The first Sunday after Christmas will be celebrated at 10:30 am on December 26. Sunday School and Bible class begin at 9 am. The choir will sing the anthem “Still, Still, Still.” The calendar for the week includes the New Year’s Eve service on Friday, December 31, at 7:30.

 

CHRIST THE SAVIOR ORTHODOX CHURCH

1070 Roxbury Road, Southbury; 267-1330

Fr Vladimir Aleandro, Priest

Christ the Savior is a pan-Orthodox, all-English mission of the New England Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America. Sunday, Divine Liturgy at 9:30 am; coffee hour and fellowship follows. Saturday, Great Vespers, 5 pm.

 

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS

Saw Mill Road; 270-1455

Family History Center 426-1752

Bishop Gary Hutchison

Full-time missionaries may be reached at 270-7087. Sunday Sacrament Meeting, 9:30 to 10:30 am; Sunday school and primary school at 10:30 am; Priesthood, Relief Society and Young Women meeting, 11:30 am; teenagers’ activities on Wednesday, 7 to 8:30 pm. The women’s organization also sponsors monthly classes on topics dealing with the family and homemaking on the second Tuesday at 7 pm.

 

COMMUNITY ORTHODOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Meets at Newtown Meeting House, 36 Main Street (at the flagpole)

The Rev Robert Tarullo, Pastor

Lessons & Carols: Christmas Eve Service, children singing and instrumental carols playing, begins at 7:30. Rev Robert Tarullo will speak on “Simeon’s Gift.” Refreshments will be available after the service. Sunday worship services 11 am and 6 pm. Rev Tarullo will lead both services. Sunday school begins at 9:30 am, various children’s classes are available. The adult class continues to study the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Nursery will be provided. For more information, call 270-3730.

 

CONNECTICUT KOREAN UNITED CHURCH

35 Sugar Street (Route 302); 426-8610

The Rev Jun-Soo Han, Pastor

Sunday worship service, 2 pm; Wednesday, Praise, Bible, and Prayer Time, 8:30 pm; Saturday, Neighborhood Bible Study, 8 pm.

 

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

27 Roxbury Road (corner of Routes 6 & 67)

 Southbury; 262-1944

Sunday services, 11 am. Worldwide weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson with readings from the Bible and correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Join in singing hymns, silent prayer, and the Lord’s Prayer. Sunday School for children to age 20 at 11 am. New pupils are asked to come a few minutes early. Child care also is provided. Wednesday, Testimony Meeting on the healing effects of prayer in daily lives, 7:30 to 8:30 pm; everyone is invited.

 

GRACE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

174 Mt Pleasant Road; 270-1005

The Rev Barry Fredericks, Pastor

The Rev Sheila Fredericks, Associate Pastor

The Rev Christopher Caton, Associate Pastor The Rev Adam Fredericks, Children & Youth Pastor

Sunday Worship, 8 am and 10 am; Youth Service, 10 am; Children’s Church and Nursery at all services. Wednesday worship, 7 pm; Thursday, Weekly Healing School, 1–2:30 pm; Friday Healing Service, second Friday of the month, 7 pm; Ladies Fellowship, Leading Ladies, and Bible Study first Monday of the month at 7 pm; Men’s Fellowship, Breakfast of Champions, first Saturday, 8–10 am, at the church; Saturday Bible Blast, held quarterly, for children 4 to 12; U-nite for Junior High youth first and third Friday evening; Care Group second Sunday, 6:30 pm.

 

GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH

466 Elm Street, Monroe; 268-7596

 The Rev Bryan A. Leone, Pastor

Sunday worship service with Holy Communion at 8 am and 10:30 am. Sunday Church School, Adult Bible Study, and Confirmation Class at 9:15 am on Sunday. Thursday Bell Choir at 6:45 pm, Senior Choir at 7:30 pm.

HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX CHURCH

Eighth and Roberts Avenues, Danbury; 748-0671

Robert Hublak, Youth Director

Susan Pataut, Choir Director

Sunday Divine Liturgy, 10 am, coffee hour follows. Church School every Thursday, 6:30 pm. Pierogie cooking sessions Tuesday, 9 am to noon. Holy Trinity is a New Calendar, English services parish. Guests and visitors are always welcome.

 

MATTATUCK UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY

122 South Pomperaug Avenue, Woodbury; 266-4810

The Rev Bonnie Vegiard

Sunday Service, 10:30 am. Religious education and child care are available during the service. Visitors are welcome.

 

NEWBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Corner Route 133 and Tower Road, Brookfield; 775-1392

The Rev Dr Mark Horton

Worship service 10 am. Refreshments will be served in Fellowship Hall immediately following the morning worship. Sunday school is provided for all youth who wish to attend. Anyone who needs special assistance should contact the church office.

 

NEWTOWN CHRISTIAN CHURCH

210 Sugar Street, Newtown; 426-6189

Jack Tanner, Minister

Sunday Bible School, 8:45 am; Worship service 10 am. Nursery is provided. For small group studies call the church office for place, time, location. The congregation is a fundamental Bible teaching group that is locally autonomous.

 

NEWTOWN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

14 West Street, Office at 41A Main Street; 426-9024

The Rev Steven Gordon, Senior Minister

The Rev Janice Touloukian, Associate Minister

The Rev Alastair Sellars, Pastor Emeritus

Edwin Corfey, Commissioned Lay Minister

Mary Andreotta, Music Director

Christmas Eve services will be at 5:30 for the Children’s Pageant, 7:30 and 11 for the Candlelight services. Rev Steve Gordon and Rev Janice Touloukian will be presiding at the later services. The Whitechapel Bell Choir, the Ringers in Faith, will play “Silent Night” at the 11 service and the Adult Choir will sing, “Angels’ Carol,” directed by Mary Andreotta. The Ringers in Faith are directed by Carole Andrews and Gale Whitford. Christmas memories will be shared by Pat Soomaa at the 7:30 service and by Dr Robert Touloukian at the 11 service.  Rev Touloukian will be preaching at the Sunday, December 26, service at 10 am. Rev Gordon will be assisting. There will be no Sunday School.

 

NEWTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

92 Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook, 426-9998

The Rev Terry W. Pfeiffer, Pastor  •   The Rev E. Sue Klein, Deacon

Family worship each Sunday at 8 am and 10 am. Church School from 10 am to 11:30 am. Adult Bible study Sundays at 9 am and Wednesdays at 7:30 pm. We are the church of “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors.” All are welcome.

 

SOUTH BRITAIN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

United Church of Christ, Route 172, South Britain

The Rev Dr Peter J. Meister, Interim Minister

Sunday worship service, 10 am, followed by coffee hour at 11 am. There will be a stewardship potluck luncheon after church.

 

STEPNEY BAPTIST CHURCH

423 Main Street, Monroe; 268-9680

The Rev Dr George W. Britt, Senior Pastor

The Rev James A. Solomon, Associate Pastor

Sunday school for all ages (birth to adult), 9 am; Fellowship, 10 am; worship service, 10:30 am, child care available. Youth Group meets Wednesday, 6:30 pm. Junior Youth Group meets Sundays at 6:30 pm.

 

ST JOHN’S EPISCOPAL

 5 Washington Avenue (Route 34)

(Mailing address is PO Box 716), Sandy Hook; 426-9938

The Rev Daniel Mattila, Priest • Jack Hornak, Warden

Sunday service and Holy Eucharist, 9:30 am. Annual events include Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper. St John’s is the home of FAITH Food Pantry, an ecumenical ministry that distributes to those in need on an emergency basis. Hours are Tuesday, 10 am to noon, and Thursday, 6 to 7:30 pm. St John’s also is host to the Sandy Hook organic farmers market.

 

ST PETER AND PAUL ORTHODOX CHURCH, OCA

A mission parish of the Orthodox Church of America

93 Dodgingtown Road, Bethel, 791-9994; www.oca.org

Saturday, Vespers at 6 pm. Sunday, Divine Liturgy at 10 am. Wednesday, prayer ministry at 7:30 pm, with class following. Services in English, and all are welcome.

 

ST ROSE OF LIMA CHURCH

46 Church Hill Road; 426-1014

 The Rev Robert E. Weiss, Pastor

 The Rev Milan Dimic, Parochial Vicar

The Rev John Inserra, Parochial Vicar

Thomas F. Curran, Deacon • Don Naiman, Deacon

Christmas Mass Schedule: Christmas Eve, 4 pm in the church, 4 pm in the parish hall, 4 pm in the Newtown High School auditorium with folk choir and 3:30 pm children’s pageant; 6 pm in church, 11 pm in church with choir concert at 10:30 pm. Christmas Day all Masses in the church: 7:30 am, 9 am, 10:30 am, noon. New Year’s Eve 4 pm; New Year’s Day, 8 am. Weekday Masses, 6:45 and 9 am.

 

The Guiding Light

Meets at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street

Ernestine Urquhart, Pastor, 270-8882

This interdenominational Christian church meets Sundays, 9–10:45 am, for morning worship in the old courtroom, lower level of Edmond Town Hall. Fellowship 10:45–11:15 am. Women’s Group meets Fridays 7:30–8:45 pm at the pastor’s home, 23 Split Rock Road. Call the pastor at 270-8882 for more information.

 

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH

36 Main Street; 426-9070

The Rev Kathleen E. Adams-Shepherd

The Rev Carol E. Westpfahl, Assistant Rector

Sue Vogelman, Church School Director

Douglas Willcox, Youth & Family Minister

Martha Galie, Interim Music Minister

Friday December 24, Christmas Eve, 4:45 carol sing followed by 5 Family Holy Eucharist with children’s sermon (instead of adult sermon) and Boys’ and Girls’ choirs and collection of Bishop Fund for Children mite boxes; 10:30, Musical Prelude (choirs and organ); 11 Festival Holy Eucharist with choir (Incense will be used at this service.) Saturday, December 25, Christmas Day, 11:30 am Holy Eucharist; Sunday, December 26, Holy Eucharist 8 and 9:45 am (no church school, children’s liturgy, or nursery). Saturday, January 1, Holy Eucharist, 11:30 am.

 

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF DANBURY

24 Clapboard Ridge Road, Danbury

 798-1994 (main office)  or 438-7190 (DRE office) www.uudanbury.org

Rev Linda Hansen, Minister

Mary Collins, Director of Religious Education (DRE)

There will be two Christmas Eve services on Friday, December 24, at 5:30 and 7 in Alumni Hall on the campus of Western Connecticut State University. The services will celebrate through the Gospel stories of Jesus’ birth and contemporary readings, and through music by our very own UUCD Quartet (congregants Catie Gormley Berg, Doug Miller, Barbara Myers-Letson, and Charlie Schott) and congregational singing — the spark of divinity to be found in all of our children. The 5:30 service will be conducted by the Rev Linda Hansen and Director of Religious Education Mary Collins, and will include elements for children. Infants are welcome at the 5:30 service; there will be no separate child care. The service will be preceded by carols beginning at 4:45. The 7 service will be led by Linda Hansen and shaped more for youth and adults. There will be ONE Sunday service on December 26 at 10 am. Congregant Marcia Brooker will lead “What’s Next?” Members of the congregation will be invited to share some of their thoughts as we take a look at the day after the hustle and busyness of the Christmas holiday. There will be no religious education or childcare for young children that day.

 

 

VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCUSA)

21 West Whisconier Road, Brookfield; 775-2624; www.Danbury.org/vpc

The Rev Ann Beams, pastor

A candlelight Christmas Eve service will be held at 7:30 on Friday, December 24. The sermon is entitled “For Unto Us A Child Is Born.” The scriptures are Isaiah 9:2–7 and Luke 2:1–20. A Wassail Bowl with the wonderful smells of its mulled cider and Christmas cookies will be served after the service. Child care is provided during worship at 10 am and the Sunday School time. For the first Sunday after Christmas, the morning message will be a Christmas Story. The scripture lessons will be Isaiah 63:7–9 and Matthew 2:13–23. Fellowship and coffee hour will be at 11 am. There will be no Sunday school for children or adult Christian education class today. Child care is provided during the worship service. The adult mid-week Bible study will restart on the Tuesday evening after New Year’s, 7:30 to 9 pm.

 

WALNUT HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH

156 Walnut Hill Road, Bethel; 796-7373 www.WalnutHillCC.org

Joel Eidsness, Senior Pastor

Worship services: Saturday 6 pm and Sunday 9 am, 10:45 am and CORE service 6 pm. Check with the church office for information regarding child care and all children/youth programs taking place during services and throughout the week. Check the website for special events, Bible study and small group information.

 

AREA SYNAGOGUES

 

B’NAI ISRAEL

A Reform Congregation

444 Main Street North, Southbury 06488;

202-267-3394 www.BnaiIsraelSouthbury.org

 Rabbi Eric Polokoff

Shabbat evening services Fridays at 7:30 pm and all Jewish holidays. Full religious school, adult education and other Jewish programs. Judaica shop.

 

CONGREGATION ADATH ISRAEL

111 Huntingtown Road (mailing address is PO Box 623);

426-5188 or 426-6817; www.CongAdathIsrael.org

Rabbi Shaul Praver

Friday night services, 7:30. The first Friday of the month is a family service. Saturday services on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month, 9:30 am. Hebrew School, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 4:15 pm. Sunday School, 8–10 am and 9:45–noon. President Nevin Zimmermann (270-6329). Sisterhood Co-Presidents Ellen Lacko and Beth Israel. Dan Federman, Men’s Club president. Traditional events include a Purim Carnival, Progressive Dinner, Corn Party, and Community Break-the-fast.

 

CONGREGATION B’NAI ISRAEL

“Danbury’s Only Conservative Congregation”

193 Clapboard Ridge Road, Danbury; 792-6161

Rabbi Vivian S. Mayer Shalom Lampell, President

Saturday services, 9:30 am. Following each weekly reading, Rabbi Vivian Mayer conducts an exchange of ideas relating to the theme of the reading. For more information, call the synagogue office at 792-6161.

 

UNITED JEWISH CENTER SYNAGOGUE

141 Deer Hill Avenue, Danbury; 748-3355

Rabbi Clifford Librach

Friday, Reform Services 8 pm. Family Service, third Friday of each month, 7:30 pm. Traditional Services, Saturday at 10 am.