Category: News and Events

Advent Missions

Each year during Advent, we work with local partners to help ensure that children from low-income or homeless families receive gifts and that families and individuals in need have a full day of food on Christmas.

This year to keep everyone safe, our partners have asked us to send donations rather than shopping for toys and groceries. Need within our community has risen higher than ever this year due to the COVID crisis. We are grateful in advance for your help in making the lives of those struggling financially better this Christmas.

Online Angels for Inspirica

To participate, please use the link to Inspirica’s wish list on Amazon. You will need an Amazon account that you can sign up for at no cost. Gifts will be mailed directly to Inspirica. Contact Marianna Kilbride, marianna@godsacredev.wpengine.com to learn more.

Salvation Army Bell Ringing

One thing hasn’t changed! Walter Stewart’s Market welcomes us to ring the bells as per usual!

Families and bubbles can safely serve outside, masked (good for warmth!), and distanced while ringing the bells, spreading good cheer, and collecting for those with less. One hour shifts are available, sign up here.

Pivot Ministries Holiday Meal Train

This holiday season, we have the opportunity to support our Pivot friends by providing meals for them. New Canaan cooks are a favorite of the men, and restaurant meals or contributions are also much appreciated as they continue to deal with fewer food donations due to the pandemic. Click here to participate.

Our traditional All-Church Thanksgiving Project may look different, but the wonderful thing is the approximately 1000 individuals we usually feed will have a Thanksgiving meal all the same! To keep everyone safe, instead of the one-day large group gathering of past years, our packing, stacking, and decorating will be done by our fit and fabulous church youth during their regular Youth Ministry meeting times. YGers and their families will be our delivery teams on November 22.

Thank you for your support! We have reached our goal and collected over $5,000 to feed those in need this Thanksgiving. The plate offering will continue to support this project until the end of November as the demand is particularly high this year due to the pandemic. Thank you for the generosity you so faithfully show to our neighbors who need it!

Congregants wishing to support this beloved church tradition may make a monetary donation to this project by visiting our website, using the GIVE button, and designating the gift to “Thanksgiving Project”. Parents, let your kids help by earning donation dollars with chores! One thing the pandemic hasn’t slowed down is poverty. A longtime partner in Norwalk noted that food requests for individuals and families have increased by 80% over this time last year.

Contact Caroline Leather, caroline@godsacredev.wpengine.com or Marianna Kilbride, marianna@godsacredev.wpengine.com.

We invite you to join us this Sunday, October 25, for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost.

Our virtual worship service will be held at 8:00am here.

Please join us from home as we worship together.

The sermon is titled “Message in a Mason Jar” and the Scripture Lesson is Exodus 16 (Excerpts).

Click here this week’s virtual bulletin.

 

For all our sermons and podcasts, click here.

 

Meals on Wheels of New Canaan, Inc. is dedicated to providing nutritious meals to residents of New Canaan whose physical, emotional, mental, medical or social condition makes it difficult to provide these meals for themselves. Meals are delivered to clients homes between 11:00am and 12:30pm Monday-Friday by volunteers from the community. Meals on Wheels is in great need of volunteers at the moment, having been affected by COVID like everything else. If you can help now and then or would like to join newly reforming teams that serve once a week, please contact Ann Gervase, anngervase1@gmail.com or Marianna Kilbride, marianna@godsacredev.wpengine.com.

Meals on Wheels’ mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the Town of New Canaan or the Southwestern Connecticut Commission on Aging, or referred to them by family, friends, medical personnel or church group will receive services for as long as circumstances warrant. Clients without the necessary resources are provided meals without charge, helping to maintain their health and independence while remaining at home with ties to their community unbroken.

Enjoy the new October 2020 newsletter edition of the news@godsacre. All the seasonal events and news is in there. Click here to read.
Submissions for the November newsletter are due October 19th. Please contact Laurel Carr, laurel@godsacredev.wpengine.com.

This year marks the 400th Anniversary of the journey of faith our Pilgrim mothers and fathers embarked upon that brought them to the shores of New England, bringing our congregational tradition with them. The Pilgrims we not perfect people, nor did they perfect the Christian faith, but they are our people, and we are a significant part of their legacy.

Click here for the week-by-week program guide.