Established 1675
Telephone: (203) 265-1691 ¤ FAX: (203) 265-0693  ¤
Church E-Mail: firstchurchwlfd@snet.net

Welcome to the First Congregational Church of Wallingford website. To visitors, members, regular attendees and friends, we extend a warm welcome and our hope that you will find this website and the information it offers concerning the church, its ministries, activities, staff and outreach both easy to use and helpful. If you have Acrobat Reader, you can read our church newsletter, Spire. The Church's Monthly calendar of activities is also available. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

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3nd Annual
First Congregational Church
Family Life
Golf Tournament
@
Miner Hills Family Golf
Middletown, CT
Saturday, September 27 , 2008
9:00 am
9 Hole Scramble
$25/person ($20 for juniors)

All profits to benefit the
Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation

Call the church office at 203-265-1691 to sign-up.
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The Bawa Health Initiative
For the Village of Bawa, Cameroon, Africa

The Board of Community and World Service has not lost sight of the great need for medical and health assistance in Africa. Dr. Dennis J. Richardson, a member of our church, along with Dr. Blaise Dondji, have undertaken the mission of helping the village of Bawa by:

• Providing primary health care to the residents of Bawa
• Reducing the prevalence of infectious diseases
• Supplying clean drinking water to all residents
• Educating the general public about infectious diseases in the developing
world

For further information on this wonderful project, see the BAWA Health Initiative web site. You may also contact Dr. Dennis J. Richardson or Rev. Margaret Jay by calling the church office at 203-265-1691 and leaving a message. You may also mail donations to: Bawa Health Initiative, Inc., P.O. Box 432, Wallingford, CT 06492. With your continued support, we can make a difference in the village of Bawa in Cameroon.

Also a group of Quinnipiac University students is taking on a huge project in hopes of saving lives half way around the world. It's called Cafe Cameroon, a coffee business they've set up to help the 400 people living in Bawa, in Cameroon Africa. You may pre-order coffee for $15 a pound. Go to their website. All profits help the Village of BAWA build and support better health care.

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS WORTHY EFFORT. HELP SAVE LIVES. THANKS!

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Our church has been engaged in a planning process for the past two years in order for us to move Forward into the Future. From these plans, we have aspirations. To see pictures of of our needs, click here.

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Holy Joe's Cafe

Holy Joe's Cafe is a Coffee House Ministry – United Church of Christ military chaplains have found an old way to invite soldiers in Iraq into a safe and informal place where they can receive spiritual care and good coffee. Read the entire article on the UCC website. Click here.

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The Prayer Shawl Ministry is a dedicated group of women who knit
shawls and prayers together for those in need of healing. "Part of the journey of prayer and faith is to recognize that we may never know how our love and care will touch or change another person's life. Instead, we are invited to offer others our compassion and let whatever needs to happen, happen. There is an old saying: Our hands are God's hands." Through the shawl-knitting ministry we can learn to trust the truth that God works through us when we care for our friends and strangers alike.

The instructions for both Prayer Shawls, as well as numerous patterns for baby blankets, exist on our website www.firstchurchwlfd@snet.net.

If you have a need for a Prayer Shawl for a friend, family member or for yourself, please do not hesitate to contact the ministry either through the office (265-1691) or contact Beth Bianco (269-5765). If you are not connected to First Congregational Church in Wallingford, CT please follow this link for a Prayer Shawl Ministry in your area. Click here.

If you have created a Prayer Shawl or Baptismal Blanket, please drop it off at the churcht office ~ there will be a sign-in sheet to identify who made the shawl, the color of the shawl, if it is intended for someone or if it is meant to be used by the ministry in the general shawl cache. There will be a Prayer Shawl basket for new shawls and blankets that need to be blessed at the church office.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Beth Bianco by email at popupnut@sbcglobal.net or at home at 203-269-5765.

The next Prayer Shawl Ministry meeting will be Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. , in the Meetinghouse.
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Upper Room Devotional Booklets are in the Narthex literature rack in both regular and large print editions.

========================================================== We would also like to assemble an "All Church" email list. If you are a church member, please send us an email. Send to: fccweb@snet.net
Thanks!

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