The commissioned Spring Glen Church Reimagining Committee began its work in the middle of 2021 with the intent of examining issues that challenged the existing present church practices and ethos with a mission to look at ways to imagine a stronger and more relevant church as we grow into the future. The committee began its work with six members, including the Senior...
A View from the Pew
"Salt"
Dan Smolnik
Bread and salt are inextricably linked in religious traditions around the world, so it seems to follow my previous AVFTP piece on bread that I might now contemplate salt. It turns out, though, that consideration of salt necessarily includes bread, but for reasons I had not expected. Once I took a look...
Many thanks to all who helped Columbus House this past year through their financial contributions that allowed us to provide
monthly meal support. On your behalf we delivered fruit monthly to help feed over 180 homeless who are still housed in
nearby hotels awaiting the reopening of the Columbus House shelter once it’s Covid safe. Over this past year...
Note: Outside, non-Spring Glen Church, groups may be allowed to use inside church space as long as the alert level in Hamden is yellow (https://portal.ct.gov/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Data-Tracker). No groups will be allowed inside if the alert level is orange or red. The criteria to use the building...
Our Regathering Team met this week to discern if our fall plan and in-person rubric needed adjusting. Earlier this summer we were hopeful that we’d be back inside for Rally Day, but based on the rise of the Delta variant the team has recommended the following:
SGC worship & programming will remain outside (and online) for the foreseeable future (including...
calls all authorized ministers, local church delegates, officers of the Association, and members in discernment to an ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCIL to examine