Our growing gathering will continue each Saturday morning through the month of March. Join us in Immanuel’s Fellowship Hall from 10am to 11:30am to support each other and to support the people and the laws at risk under the new federal executive orders and actions.

Come at 9:45am for refreshments and conversation. Please consider inviting a friend. All are welcome.

We have created a page on this website with a list of resources, upcoming meetings, rallies and Town Halls.

Questions: Contact Anne Stanback at annestanback@gmail.com or Dr. Jay Terbush at jayterbush@outlook.com

Twice-monthly gatherings including a community dinner with active mentor support, fun games and hot-topic discussions.

Please visit the Youth Ministry page for more information or contact Minister Tracy Gormley.

A core Christian confession is that Jesus Christ died for us. How have Christians understood the reconciling work of Christ - both his life and his death - in the past, and how should we understand it today? In this presentation, Daniel Kueper discusses the biblical roots of the idea of atonement, and the different “models” that the church has used to explain Christian atonement.

Attendees are invited to respond to the presentation by offering their thoughts n what atonement should mean today. The presentation will take place n the Parlor on March 16 at 3PM.

Dan has a Master’s degree in Theology, and facilitates Bible Study on Sunday mornings

Our growing gathering will continue each Saturday morning through the month of March. Join us in Immanuel’s Fellowship Hall from 10am to 11:30am to support each other and to support the people and the laws at risk under the new federal executive orders and actions.

Come at 9:45am for refreshments and conversation. Please consider inviting a friend. All are welcome.

We have created a page on this website with a list of resources, upcoming meetings, rallies and Town Halls.

Questions: Contact Anne Stanback at annestanback@gmail.com or Dr. Jay Terbush at jayterbush@outlook.com

Join us for our 2nd STAND UP! in front of Immanuel Church (on the corner of Farmington Ave. and Woodland St.) at 4pm this Friday. We're standing up for those who can't. We're standing up against the current Administration's cuts to basic human services and attacks on human rights.

Bring your own sign, make your own sign, or use one of the many we've already created!

Parking is available on Woodland Street and also at Town & County Club at 22 Woodland St. Invite your friends and neighbors. Let's make some #goodtrouble right in the middle of rush hour traffic!

Dive headfirst with us into our next concert, “Neverland”! Explore through song the power of water as a source of vitality, renewal, and connection.

Saturday, March 8 at 7:30pm
South Congregational Church
949 Main Street, South Glastonbury CT

Sunday, March 9 at 3:00pm
Immanuel Congregational Church
10 Woodland Street, Hartford CT

You don’t want to miss this — tickets are on sale now! All ages are welcome. Visit voceinc.org/event/neverland or click the “Neverland Tickets” link in our bio to secure your seats.

Join us on March 9th following worship for a Second Hour with Hina Khan. During this Second Hour, our HIU Intern Hina will introduce the congregation to the concepts of Spirituality and Mysticism as understood under the lens of Islam. She will elaborate on the critical importance of the archetype Isa Ibn Maryam — Jesus Son of Mary (Peace be upon him) for Muslim mystics often referred to as Sufis. She will uncover Sufi teachings pertaining to asceticism, divine mercy, and excellence of being, using references to Jesus Christ in the Quran, Hadith (sayings of Prophet Muhammed PBUH), and critical Sufi texts.

Dive headfirst with us into our next concert, “Neverland”! Explore through song the power of water as a source of vitality, renewal, and connection.

Saturday, March 8 at 7:30pm
South Congregational Church
949 Main Street, South Glastonbury CT

Sunday, March 9 at 3:00pm
Immanuel Congregational Church
10 Woodland Street, Hartford CT

You don’t want to miss this — tickets are on sale now! All ages are welcome. Visit voceinc.org/event/neverland or click the “Neverland Tickets” link in our bio to secure your seats.

Our growing gathering will continue each Saturday morning through the month of March. Join us in Immanuel’s Fellowship Hall from 10am to 11:30am to support each other and to support the people and the laws at risk under the new federal executive orders and actions.

Come at 9:45am for refreshments and conversation. Please consider inviting a friend. All are welcome.

We have created a page on this website with a list of resources, upcoming meetings, rallies and Town Halls.

Questions: Contact Anne Stanback at annestanback@gmail.com or Dr. Jay Terbush at jayterbush@outlook.com

Ash Wednesday Service

Join us Wednesday March 5th at 7pm for Ash Wednesday Service

Come Wednesday evening for a meditative worship service in the chapel. We will be joined by our siblings in Christ from Center Church and Riverfront Family Church. The service will inaugurate the season of Lent leading up to Easter. This quiet service will include ashes for those who want to receive them and a brief celebration of communion along with reflective music and consideration of the meaning of the Beatitudes for our lives today. If you have not ever participated in this service, you will find it meaningful and a way to really mark your entrance into this holy season of Lent.

Devotional Books for Lent

We have two dozen devotional books for this season of Lent. They use the same scripture from the Gospel of Luke that Dr Jay will be reflecting on in the sermons throughout the 40 days of Lent leading up to and including Holy Week and Easter. These devotional books offer readings, prayers, poems and art work for each week, to be used anytime (or several times) through each week. You will find these booklets to be thought provoking and prayer inducing. The theme of Lent is Everything In Between and will help us to find God in between polarities, in the space in between extremes, like intention and action, like neighbor and stranger. Pick one up at either entrance to the sanctuary. Or you can ask for one by calling the church office at 860-527-8121.

Daily Devotional Cards

We have daily devotional cards for each day through the season of Lent.  These cards have a pointed question on one side and a prayer on the other side. These cards will stimulate your reflections as you journey through this sacred time leading up to Holy Week and Easter. Ask Dr Jay or call the office for a set of these cards. We only have a few sets. We believe that these will be helpful daily companions leading you deeper in your spiritual life.

Twice-monthly gatherings including a community dinner with active mentor support, fun games and hot-topic discussions.

Please visit the Youth Ministry page for more information or contact Minister Tracy Gormley.

The Senior Minister of Immanuel Congregational Church, UCC, 10 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT, requests a special meeting of the congregation on Sunday, March 2, 2025, to begin immediately following the 10am worship service, to accept the Church Council’s recommendation to enter into a contract and proceed with the sale of 360 Farmington Ave. The Congregational meeting will be in-person and live-streamed on Immanuel’s Facebook page at facebook.com/iccucc.

Our growing gathering will continue each Saturday morning through the month of March. Join us in Immanuel’s Fellowship Hall from 10am to 11:30am to support each other and to support the people and the laws at risk under the new federal executive orders and actions.

Come at 9:45am for refreshments and conversation. Please consider inviting a friend. All are welcome.

We have created a page on this website with a list of resources, upcoming meetings, rallies and Town Halls.

Questions: Contact Anne Stanback at annestanback@gmail.com or Dr. Jay Terbush at jayterbush@outlook.com

Charter Oak Cultural Center and Immanuel Congregational Church present
A Reading of James Baldwin's
THE AMEN CORNER
Directed by taneisha duggan

Sunday, February 23 at 3PM
Immanuel Congregational Church
10 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT

For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.

For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path. THE AMEN CORNER is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.

Tickets: $15; No one turned away for lack of funds. For tickets, click here: https://events.humanitix.com/amencorner

Join us on Saturday, February 22, 4:00 pm, Real Art Ways located at 56 Arbor Street, Hartford CT, for a conversation with author Kent Dunlap to celebrate the launch of his new book, The Neck: A Natural and Cultural History. A 300-million-year tour of the prominent role of the neck in animal evolution and human culture. Humans give a lot of attention to the neck.

Our growing gathering will continue each Saturday morning through the month of February. Join us in Immanuel’s Fellowship Hall from 10am to 11:30am to support each other and to support the people and the laws at risk under the new federal executive orders and actions.

Come at 9:45am for refreshments and conversation. Please consider inviting a friend. All are welcome.

Town Hall Meetings with Sen. Murphy: We have been in conversation with the offices of Senators Blumenthal and Murphy and Representative Larson, inviting them to use the Immanuel sanctuary to hold a town hall meeting. Stay tuned for developing events. If any of them can come we will cancel this meeting and host them instead. We will keep you posted.

Questions: Contact Anne Stanback at annestanback@gmail.com or Dr. Jay Terbush at jayterbush@outlook.com

Indivisible CT is sponsoring a conversation with Attorney General William Tong at the Unitarian Meeting House, 50 Bloomfield Ave. Hartford, CT. (This in-person event is full.)

Please join on Zoom instead!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8602339897?omn=89568356038

Our growing gathering will continue each Saturday morning through the month of February. Join us in Immanuel’s Fellowship Hall from 10am to 11:30am to support each other and to support the people and the laws at risk under the new federal executive orders and actions.

Come at 9:45am for refreshments and conversation. Please consider inviting a friend. All are welcome.

Town Hall Meetings with Sen. Murphy: We have been in conversation with the offices of Senators Blumenthal and Murphy and Representative Larson, inviting them to use the Immanuel sanctuary to hold a town hall meeting. Stay tuned for developing events. If any of them can come we will cancel this meeting and host them instead. We will keep you posted.

Questions: Contact Anne Stanback at annestanback@gmail.com or Dr. Jay Terbush at jayterbush@outlook.com

As many of you know, we have been having gatherings on Saturdays, which began as an opportunity for people to come together to share their outrage, fears, sadness over the new administration’s executive orders, as well as space for people to figure out how we might provide support and help to those most vulnerable populations being targeted: immigrants, people experiencing poverty, and LGBTQ+ people, especially transgender and nonbinary people.

We will be holding a Stand Out Visibility Action this Friday, from 7:30am to 9:00am at the corner of Woodland St. and Farmington Ave. to show our support for those vulnerable communities, for the environment, and for other areas of concern.

From Sen. Murphy’s Office:

As Elon Musk and President Trump threaten to freeze federal funding, layoff federal workers, and dismantle agencies, Senator Murphy is hosting a Citizen Meeting to provide an update on what he’s doing to fight for people in our state followed by a Q&A with attendees. He will be joined by Senator Blumenthal.

UPDATE***: This event filled up very quickly but you can still watch it LIVE online at
https://youtube.com/@senatorchrismurphy?si=nVwl0Ge_cGemlZY0.

To Immanuel Congregational folks, please note that our Support Group scheduled for Saturday at 10am is still on, but will end at 11am so people can either go in person (if they were lucky enough to get a seat), or live online.

See this Event’s INFO about Sen. Murphy’s Citizens Meeting.

Our growing gathering will continue each Saturday morning through the month of February. Join us in Immanuel’s Fellowship Hall from 10am to 11:00am to support each other and to support the people and the laws at risk under the new federal executive orders and actions.

Come at 9:45am for refreshments and conversation. Please consider inviting a friend. All are welcome.

Stand Out Visibility Action: On Friday, February 14th, from 7:30am to 9am we will gather at the corner of Farmington Ave and Woodland St. There is strong energy in this group to show our support more visibly. We will work on messaging this Saturday and announce a sign-making opportunity soon.

Questions: Contact Anne Stanback at annestanback@gmail.com or Dr. Jay Terbush at jayterbush@outlook.com

Twice-monthly gatherings including a community dinner with active mentor support, fun games and hot-topic discussions.

Please visit the Youth Ministry page for more information or contact Minister Tracy Gormley.

This past Saturday morning, 20 people gathered in Immanuel’s Fellowship Hall to discern how to live out our Christian faith and Immanuel values in these days. We gathered to share concerns and fears, and potential responses to the policies of the new administration impacting the most vulnerable people in our communities: immigrants and refugees, the LGBTQ+ community—particularly transgender and nonbinary people—people experiencing poverty, justice-involved individuals, and women needing reproductive care. Concerns were also voiced about the environment and health care, among other areas.

Dr. Jay opened the gathering with prayer and scripture that reminded us of the biblical basis for welcoming the stranger and caring and advocating for vulnerable populations and the dispossessed. We broke into dyads for one-on-one conversations and then opened the meeting to share ideas of how we can support both those who are afraid and under threat and those working on the front lines providing services and legal advocacy. People also voiced an interest in finding a way to show support in a visible way on our corner of Farmington Avenue and Woodland Street, and connecting to impactful efforts already underway.

The group agreed to meet again this coming Saturday, February 1 at 10am in Fellowship Hall. If this invitation for solidarity, challenge and comfort sounds like something you would like to be a part of, please join us by contacting the church office at immanuel06105@gmail.com or 860-527-8121. Or just come. And feel free to bring friends or others impacted by these injustices.

Thank you,

Anne Stanback

The Annual Meeting of Immanuel Congregational Church, UCC, 10 Woodland Street, Hartford, Connecticut, 06105, will be held immediately following the 10am worship service on Sunday, January 26th, 2025.

The meeting will receive reports, adopt the budget, elect officers and transact other business proper to come before the meeting. The meeting will be in-person in the sanctuary and live-streamed on Immanuel’s Facebook page.

Today is quite a busy and significant day in the life of Immanuel!

Our guest preacher today is Noel Grisanti and her message is “Go Back and Get It: Traditions of Hope”.

Also in today’s worship there will be a Dedication of our Pastoral Search Team. Anne Stanback, Moderator, will introduce the Search Team’s function, and the members of the Team:
Diana Evans, Gretchen Hathaway, Marilyn Holt, Barbara Howe, Beth Jackson, Jesse Jones, Lawrence Paterno, Melissa St. Juste and Bob Willard.

Immediately following worship is our Annual Meeting.

First Church Martin Luther King Jr Remembrance Service:
One Nation, One Dream

Come join us as we celebrate the renowned preacher, civil rights activist and ‘drum major for justice,’ the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This event will take place Monday, January 20th at Faith Church at 3pm. Our guest speaker is Mr. Andre Keitt, a multifaceted Connecticut Storyteller, Educator, Performance Artists; and Greatheart Griot, who is a member of the First Church of Christ in Hartford, and serves on its history committee (among his many other callings).

This program will be IN-PERSON, and you may join us via our LIVE STREAM here or at www.faithmatterstoday.org.