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The Rev. Dr. Stephen Chapin Garner

Chapin is a native New Yorker, having grown up over the border from New Canaan in Westchester County. His greatest passions in life are being a husband, father, and pastor.
 
Chapin is a graduate of Boston University School of Theology and holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in preaching from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor at the Village Church in Wellesley, MA, and the United Church of Christ in Norwell, MA.
 
Chapin has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alban Institute, an adjunct faculty member in homiletics at Boston University School of Theology and General Theological Seminary, and a resident preacher at the Church at Point O’Woods on Fire Island and the Cuttyhunk Community Church in Gosnold, MA.  Chapin leads the Raymond Preaching Fellowship program for churches in Connecticut. 
 

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The Rev. Dr. Stephen Chapin Garner
Senior Minister

(203) 966-2651, x101
chapin@godsacre.org

Daily Devotion

Read: Acts 26:1, 24-32

Agrippa said to Paul, “Are you so quickly persuading me to become a Christian?” Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that not only you but also all who are listening to me today might become such as I am—except for these chains.” Acts 26:28–29

King Agrippa did not convert to Paul’s faith. In fact, most people who heard Paul remained unmoved and unchanged. If you look critically at Paul’s career, you might assume that most of the time Paul’s efforts met with failure. And yet Paul sought and received a…

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