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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: Luke 2:8–20

In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them. Luke 2:8–9a

The shepherds were always the last to know everything. They picked up pieces of gossip and rumor now and then that they readily shared among themselves while leading their flocks across the countryside. When it came to official notifications, they were the ones last and least informed. Shepherds occupied, and occupy to this day, the lowest rung on…

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