A Farewell for Amy Distel: During the service on Sunday, December 23, we will take a moment to express our appreciation for Amy Distel’s time on our staff at WACC. Her family will move to Arizona on the 26th. Be sure to come out to express your gratitude and wish them all happiness on this next leg of their journey.
Bulletin Folding Party- Join Lisa in the office Friday, December 21 from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. as we fold bulletins for the Christmas Eve Services and listen to music. Coffee, tea and doughnuts will be served. Please email or call Lisa if you can help at lisawacc@gmail.com or (860)673-3996.
Bulletin Folding Party- Join Lisa in the office Friday, December 21 from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. as we fold bulletins for the Christmas Eve Services and listen to music. Coffee, tea and doughnuts will be served. Please email or call Lisa if you can help at lisawacc@gmail.com or (860)673-3996.
Our History Book: You are offered an opportunity to help support the work of your History Committee by being a sponsor of the book, now being written with the ACC Historian, that will speak to the shared and separate stories of the two churches. Gathered as one congregation in 1751, the church split in 1818 over the issue of where to locate a new place of worship. For a $50 donation, your name will be listed in the book as a sponsor and you will receive a copy of the book. For an order form, please click this link: A Tale of Two Meetinghouses and their Communities, 1746-2019
Bereavement Group: Pastor Brian leads a bereavement group which meets the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. The next meetings are December 17, January 7 & 21. The group will meet at 2:00 p.m. at The Residence at Brookside located at 117 Simsbury Road in Avon across from Healthtrax.
The Board of Christian Outreach holds Food Basket Sunday on the third Sunday of every month. We will once again be collecting food and toiletry items to help fill the shelves at Gifts of Love. Please bring your donations to church on Sunday, January 20. You may bring them to the sanctuary and place them in front of the communion table or leave them in the school bus outside of the church office at any time.
Dining for Women: This program meets once a month to raise funds and support programs that help disadvantaged women. The goal of this organization is to “educate girls, teach women a skill, help develop markets for their products, and fight the prevalent gender inequality in the world. We give a hand up, not a hand out. Dining for Women celebrates the power of the individual to see an injustice and act to change it; to see need and act to fill it. Dining for Women’s members are deeply involved in the programs we support and the problems we seek to address. Our education component is equally as important as our fundraising.” Please contact Susan Lane at (860)675-8664 or selinavon@aol.com for details.
