First Church of Christ in Saybrook (Congregational)

United Church of Christ

 

This Sunday, we welcome back Jeff Birch for the first of his sermon series "Flipping the Script." Join us for 10am worship, and stay for the 11:30 presentation from The Witness Stones Project.

"Flipping The Script"

For the next four weeks, we’ll be taking a deep dive into four late-summer lectionary texts from the Gospel of Luke. These four passages, all of which are based in familiar parables of Jesus, present Luke’s unique view of what real life in the Community of God might be like. As we’ll see, Luke’s perspective acknowledges the harsh realities of life on the margins, and offers validation and hope at a time when both were in short supply. I hope you will join us in person or on-line for this interesting and timely reexamination of these timeless scriptures.

Jeff Birch is a Member in Discernment under the care of the Middlesex Association of the Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ. Jeff did his undergraduate work at Northwestern Michigan College and is a graduate of The Great Lakes Maritime Academy. He earned his Master of Divinity degree at Lexington Theological Seminary in 2024. Jeff is a self-avowed church geek. He loves everything about how a congregation functions, from worship to outreach and Bible study to potlucks. He has a particular interest in church governance and how the modern church interacts with the world. Jeff lives in East Lyme, Connecticut, with his partner, Mike, and their cat, Beba