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Noroton Presbyterian Church’s Day of Service (and Maude Pettus’ 102nd Birthday Celebration)

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St. Luke’s Parish Packs Food for Hungry Families on Sunday

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The Choirs of Saint Luke’s Parish in Darien, and Christ Church in Greenwich will sing a service of Choral Evensong on Saturday, Nov. 18 at 5 p.m. at Saint Luke’s. The service will be the first joint effort between the two Episcopal parishes in recent memory. It is being conducted by Jamie Hitel (director of music at Christ Church) and David Pulliam, (director of music and organist at Saint Luke’s). ____________

— an announcement from St.

A backpack drive now under way at the United Church of Rowayton for the Department of Children and Families (DCF) is to have more children start the next school year with backpacks filled with school must-haves
From now until Aug. 15, the meeting house behind the church at 210 Rowayton Ave. in Rowayton will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to receive backpacks. Suggested items are:

tissues, black and colored pencils, pens, crayons, geometric stencils, compasses, erasers, rulers, tape, file folders, glue sticks, scissors, notebooks, paper, pencil sharpeners, White Out, staplers, staples and calculators. Only a few of the items need to be included.

Red Sign Community Supper St. Luke's 05-04-17

Have you ever driven down the Post Road on a Thursday and wondered about the red and white Community Supper signs? Community Supper might be the best kept culinary secret in town, except that it’s not secret to the 100-plus folks who come week by week to share a $1.00 meal in a friendly and welcoming environment. For the past 10 years, Saint Luke’s has hosted this weekly dinner, open to all. “Our family attends Community Supper at least twice a month,” says parishioner Meredith Olmstead. “It’s truly one of the best things we do.”

At first the supper was a simple way to allow her kids to build relationships with people of all backgrounds and ages, but soon Olmstead found herself drawn to share her own Cordon Bleu background and now spearheads dinner preparation, with a group of friends, three times a year.

The Choirs of Darien’s Saint Luke’s Parish will sing a service of Choral Evensong on Saturday May 6 at 4 p.m. at Saint Bart’s Church on Park Avenue in New York City. The service will be part of their annual Royal School of Church Music choir festival featuring choirs from across Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York City. David Pulliam, director of music and organist at Saint Luke’s is conducting. The same Evensong repertoire will be sung by the choir at St. Luke’s the following day, Sunday May 7 at 6 p.m. The service is open to everyone at 1864 Boston Post Road.

The election of Donald Trump to the presidency, “no matter what side of the aisle you sit on” is momentous and has left many “shocked and in fear,” say the clergy of St. Luke’s Church, which will hold a special church service at 7 p.m. tonight. “[W]e will ask God to give us the courage to re-commit ourselves to the gospel imperative of seeking justice, working for peace, and including all people in the circle of God’s compassionate embrace,” said an email from the church’s clergy. Reconciliation and civility is a strong theme of and reason for the service, the email said: “We need divine help to be able to work fiercely and passionately for what we know to be good and right and true, without blaming or shaming others on the way to that ideal.” Here’s the full text of the email:

Dear Friends,

Last night’s election has shocked the world. No matter what side of the aisle you sit on, it’s clear that something momentous has happened. There is uncertainty. We’ve never been in a place like this before. Many people are shocked and in fear. Some say the last time they felt like this was 9/11.

Darien United, a youth group comprised of kids from three churches, launched this Sunday with over 70 young Darienites in attendance. _____________

— an announcement from Darien United

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The group, hailing from First Congregational, St.Luke’s Episcopal and Noroton Presbyterian got together to help the kids learn that in a world that is constantly dividing us, people can put differences aside and work and learn together. First Congregational youth minister Gary Morello helped to orchestrate the unprecedented town youth ministry, and is excited to help to “young people a platform to engage in relationships as well as learn about pure moral character.”

This was just the first meeting of what promises to be a growing group.

Maude Pettus Noroton Presbyterian Church 4-7-16

This past Sunday, April 3, hundreds of members of Noroton Presbyterian Church (NPC) participated in 25 community service projects around Darien for the first annual NPC Service Day.

The idea was for the church community to come together, all ages and stages, and serve their greater community. “NPC Service Day was really a chance for our congregation to give back to our community through service. It was beautiful to see young and old having fun and serving our neighbors together,” said senior pastor, Samuel Schreiner. The day was a year in the making with projects for everyone, i.e. outside projects, sitting down projects, manual labor projects, etc. The idea was to have a wide variety of one to three hour shifts so that each member could sign up for one or more, either as a family or individually.

More than 250 volunteers gathered in three shifts on Sunday, March 13 in Saint Luke’s Parish Hall to pack over 50,000 healthy meals. The meals were formulated by Feeding Children Everywhere, the Orlando, FL-based nonprofit that empowers people to fight hunger. At a cost of 25 cents per serving, the Hunger Project meals represented $12,500 in donations by Saint Luke’s and participating volunteers. To the beat of rock and roll, six assembly lines at Saint Luke’s competed for bragging rights for the most meals packed. Volunteers of all ages—from toddlers to ninety-year-olds—scooped lentils, rice, dried vegetables and sea salt into 6-serving plastic bags.

Update, Sunday: The church has filled up all its slots for volunteers for this event, according to its Web pages about it, but it is still accepting money donations. Original article:

Hungry families in Darien, Stamford, Norwalk and beyond will receive over 50,000 healthy meals packed by volunteers for the Saint Luke’s Hunger Project on March 13. In partnership with Feeding Children Everywhere, Saint Luke’s will host a one-day meal-packing extravaganza to benefit local hunger. Volunteers will pack the ingredients for lentil-rice-vegetable casseroles to be distributed by Person-to-Person food pantries in Darien and Norwalk, the Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County, the Connecticut Food Bank, the Pantry@NCC and other local hunger charities. The community is invited to participate in this fun, family-friendly event, welcoming ages 2 to 102.

Here’s the full video of a half-hour program on “Marriage, Religion and Modern Life” that will be broadcast Sunday at 1 p.m. on Channel 2 (WCBS-TV) but is already on the CBS website.
The program features the Rev. Dale Rosenberger and members of the congregation at the First Congregational Church in Darien. The full video,below, is almost 27 minutes long (from this Web page on the CBS News website):

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The public is invited to participate in stimulating interfaith mindfulness practices with musician and Buddhism scholar Dr. Robert Jonas on Saturday, Oct. 3 in Darien. Register first. __________

This is an announcement from St. Luke’s Parish in Darien.

On Sunday, Sept. 20, members of Noroton Presbyterian Church (NPC), building partners and mission partners came together to rededicate the extensively renovated NPC building complex as part of the church’s “Foundations of the Future” campaign. Greeting members and friends that morning were strains of bagpipes, evoking the Scottish heritage of Presbyterian church. Keys were given to the congregation by Architect Dennis Kowal and General Contractor Gus Papajohn. — This is an announcement from Noroton Presbyterian Church, which is offering a series of events open to the whole Darien community, even those outside the church.

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