Darien United Youth Group 910-25-16

70 Kids from Three Churches at 1st Meeting of ‘Darien United’ Youth Group

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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

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

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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.

feed the hungry four 3-14-16

Hundreds of Volunteers at St Luke’s Parish Pack 50,000 Meals for the Hungry

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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.

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

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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.

CBS News First Congregational 12-17-15

Darien Church Featured in CBS Program on Religion and Marriage

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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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Noroton Presbyterian Church Reopens Renovated Buildings, Offers Events

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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.