While school has started, our first Sunday back in worship is Labor Day Sunday (10 am) and that never seems a great time to have a church reunion with so many away at lovely camping sites or visiting family in distant parts. Because our music team of Erik and Mary Jane are on vacation the…
The Waterbury Good Neighbor Fund
It has been my good fortune and great honor to be able to administer the Waterbury Good Neighbor Fund (WGNF). I try to administer it with the fairness and in-person touch people deserve and with the watchful eye of the guardian of the people's money. It's a funny little dance and there are no hard…
Waterbury Good Neighbor Fund Fundraiser
Usually around this time of year, my work with the Good Neighbor Fund slows a bit. Folks have made it through winter and the financial crunch that so easily ends up becoming a deep financial hole is passed. This year, as last, this easing has not happened. As the homeless/hotel program was defunded stays for…
Pledge Ingathering 2022
Let your yeah be yeah and your no be no, now. – Jimmy Cliff (and Matthew 5:37) Dear Friends, On my walk back to church after lunch last Tuesday, I had three brief interactions with three people from three different families; one lost a family cat in a cat-vs.-car incident, another lost his cousin to…