Sunday, October 26, 2025

Service of Worship 10:30 AM in the Meetinghouse

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We invite you to join us at one (or both) of our worship services this Sunday, October 26^th. We will meet at 8:30 & 10:30am in our Meetinghouse.

As Pastor Jen will be serving in her capacity as a member of the Committee on Church and Ministry of the Fairfield East Association at the Service of Release for the pastors of the Southport Congregational Church, we have the great opportunity to welcome our own member, The Rev. Dave Buchan, to the pulpit to share the message “Good Neighbor Policy” based on the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10. Our Chancel Choir will share their gifts at the 10:30 service as well.

Our Church School children will meet during the 10:30am service in their age-graded classrooms as they learn about The Seasons of God’s Time – exploring the church year, what the different seasons are, what we learn about and how we grow closer to God in each. Our youth in grades 7-12 are invited to join together for Youth Service Sunday during the 10:30 service as well to help prepare for the Great Pumpkin Challenge. Nursery care will be available at both services.

We will have Hospitality Time in our Fellowship Hall after the 10:30 service, and we invite you to come back to join us in the evening from 5-6:30pm for dinner, pumpkin carving and blessing as we participate in The Great Pumpkin Challenge.

All are welcome!

Click here to view past streams on YouTube

Additional recordings of our worship services can be found on our YouTube page. uccbvideo - YouTube

Church School & Nursery Care are available: If you have questions about Church School, please be in touch with our
Church School Coordinator, Barbara Crandell at

barbara@uccb.org.

Call to Share our Gifts & Offerings

Laura Huling	Ruth Reda	Susan Dodd	Sally Markiewicz

Worship Opportunities

Labyrinth & Children's Garden:
Our Labyrinth and the story of how it came to be were recently published in a book of New England Labyrinths, so we are excited to share that with people in our area and beyond. Planted around our Labyrinth, we also have a Children's Garden, where kids are able to experience God's presence in Creation, remember loved ones who have died, and go to play or pray at our church. All are welcome to visit during daylight hours. You can find the entrance to the footpath to the labyrinth and garden on the left side of the slope down into our lower parking lot.

Together Women Rise is a community of women and allies that supports women and girls living in extreme poverty in developing countries. They provide grants for grass-roots projects in areas such as education, healthcare, economic sustainability, safety, and leadership. Formerly known as Dining for Women, the organization believes that investing in women and girls is crucial for ending extreme poverty and creating a safer world.

Keep an eye on your email, the Congregational Church of Brookfield Facebook Page, or our website on Sunday morning for the links to join us (and please feel free to share the links with family and friends). Afterward, if you are willing to share a photo of you or your family worshipping with us online that may be used on our CCB Facebook page or website, please send it to uccbsocialmedia@gmail.com. If you have missed any of our online worship services you can find them linked below, and you can subscribe to our YouTube channel uccbvideo, where our worship services are archived.

What does it mean to be an “Open & Affirming” church?

What does the Bible say about homosexuality?

If you’re eager to learn more about The Congregational Church of Brookfield as well as our Open & Affirming statement, you can look at the curriculum we used for our June "Open & Affirming" Bible study at

https://reformationproject.org/biblical-case/

Call to Share our Gifts & Offerings, Roy Taylor on YouTube

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Click here: https://youtu.be/bSbUnGVt7bY

10:30am Sunday Weekly Worship Recordings:

If you are not able to watch the service live from the beginning, or if you need to join the service late, there will be an opportunity to view the entire recording in a few hours, after YouTube processes it and uploads it to our church YouTube channel. For instant notifications of Live Streams, you can also subscribe to that channel, uccbvideo, by clicking on the red "Subscribe" button on the YouTube page.

Sharing to Build, Building to Share…

See the New Vision for Fellowship Hall!

Brochure link above

Update on our “Sharing to Build, Building to Share” Project

The elevator in our newly renovated and now accessible Fellowship Hall passed state inspection! Now we wait for the Building Inspector to issue our Certificate of Occupancy.

If you haven’t seen Fellowship Hall recently please stop by and walk around. It looks open and fresh, and there are no tables and chairs being stored against the wall! The cabinets are the highlight of the room. We have a very talented cabinet maker amongst us. A big shout out to Ken Arifian!

We look forward to celebrating this accomplishment in our new space on Sunday, September 28^th after a SINGLE 10:30am service of worship with a Ribbon Cutting and special Fellowship Time.
We hope you will be able to join us!

We continue to be in awe of your continued financial support. Thank you to:

 all who have already fulfilled their pledge

 those who gave generously over and above their pledge gift

 everyone who made a gift to the campaign without pledging

Each and every one of these gifts, along with those that continue to come in on track to fulfill pledges and donated cans and bottles we continue to redeem, are making a significant impact.
All of your giving is truly appreciated. Thank you!

As you may recall, our campaign pledge gifts are scheduled to be completed by November. As of this update, we are still hopeful that we will receive nearly $56,000 in outstanding pledge gifts in these final 3 months. However, based on information we know today, expected committed pledge gifts may be short by $20,000 - $25,000 from originally pledged amounts.
We will know our total pledge gifts received in early December.

The project and final payments to the contractor will be within the next 4-6 weeks. With pledge gifts being completed in November, we may need to borrow funds to cover the anticipated cash flow gap.

Please remember that accelerating pledge giving (or any additional gifts!) will greatly reduce any borrowing. If you are able to complete your pledge before November, we would be grateful to hear from you. Please contact Jim Sugden at jim@jimsugden.com. If it is not possible, we understand and thank you for your continued giving, commitment, prayers and support!

If you wish to learn more about these income and expense details and project completion timeline, please feel free to reach out to any member of the Fellowship Hall Financial Task Force: Ken Arifian, Laurie Matson, Michael Matson, Monica McInerney, Alan Peck, Jim Sugden, and Rod Wutzl.

Because we are CCB, we have fun whenever we gather! Even as we worship each week in our historic Meetinghouse, fellowship is at the very heart of our church life and we believe Fellowship Hall should be accessible to all. We invite you to contribute as generously as you can and help us extend God's extravagant welcome to everyone, "no matter who we are or where we are on life's journey." Whether we walk or roll, we seek to follow Jesus together!

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Pastors Fund Thanks & Information

Our pastors wish to thank you so much for your generous support of the Pastors Fund during these difficult and ever-changing times. With your help bills have been paid to cover housing costs, medical bills, and emergency repairs as well as to cover other everyday costs like food, gas, and clothing for members & friends of our church and wider community. The Pastors Fund is supported through the honorarium from the funerals/memorials that our pastors officiate, as well as through the generous gifts of members and friends of our community.
If you are feeling moved to make a direct gift to the Pastors Fund, gift cards for groceries and gas are always welcome, as are donations made payable to Pastors Fund.

Your Pastors are Here for You!

Pastoral Care Appointments

Pastor Jen is available for individual pastoral care appointments either in-person or via phone or Zoom. If you have something that you would like to address or speak with her about, please feel free to reach out, (

jennifer@uccb.org ) to set up a time to talk and pray together.

Church Office Hours

Monday through Thursday - 9:00am - 3:00pm

CLOSED on Fridays.

The church door will remain locked for safety reasons, but our Ring doorbell system helps us to know who is coming to the door.

If you want to ensure someone will be available to assist you, you can always call ahead to the Church Office at 203-775-1259.

We are an Open and Affirming Congregation of the United Church of Christ.

Know that "No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here!"

Email Blasts

To be added to our church "blast" email list and receive the most current updates, just contact our church office administrator, office@uccb.org.

Prayer Requests

We are a praying church!

We welcome your sharing of joys and concerns for prayer -- either with the Pastors, the Deacons, the Stephen Ministry team, or the whole congregation in public worship. If you have a prayer request to share, please just email the Church Office, with "Prayer Request" in the memo line at

office@uccb.org , and please indicate if you would like this request to be shared with just the pastors, with pastors & Deacons, or in worship. Thank you.