First Congregational Church in Cromwell, CT

Our homemade apple pie fundraiser continues in 2020!

Proceeds benefit First Congregational Church.
Pricing: personal size $7; 9” pie $12; deep dish or 10” $17
There will be a work session on 10/24/2020 to assemble the pies. Organizers and workers will have temperatures taken, be required to wear masks, wash hands, and wear gloves. Stations will be disinfected and prepared. Some people will be in the kitchen and follow social distancing protocol and apple peelers, packers spread out in the fellowship hall. All pie orders MUST be picked up on October 24th by 1:00/1:30 pm. No exceptions. We do not have freezer space.

SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2020 9:30 A.M.

Please download our Safe Worship Guidelines

On Thursday, May 21st, the Executive Board voted to reopen the church on Sunday, June 21st. If you are unable to attend or do not feel safe attending yet, we will continue to livestream on Facebook and post service on our web page. The following are guidelines as to how things will be done as there will need to be changes made.

• If you feel healthy and are comfortable coming to worship with others, then please come. If you are not feeling well or have been in contact with someone with the coronavirus, please stay home and watch the service on livestream
• Please enter in by the Sanctuary door only. All other doors will be locked.
• Everyone Is asked to wear a mask for both their own and other people’s protection.
• All Bibles, hymnals, and pew cushions have been removed for health reasons. If you need to, please bring your own cushion that will return home with you at the end of the service.
• As you enter the front door, it is our hope to have an usher whose sole job is to take your temperature with the infrared thermometer we have ordered.
• There will be a bulletin handed to you by an usher at the front door.
• All persons will enter by the right door and those wishing to sit on the piano side will need to walk around the front of the church.
• There will be no offering plates, offerings can be placed in a box at the front of the church marked, “Offerings”
• Families are asked to sit together.
• Pews will be taped off in order to maintain proper social distancing.
• Please, there is to be no physical contact until such a time it is deemed safe.
• When the service is over, you will be asked to exit through the right back door only.
• There will be no coffee hour until further notice.
• Please no socializing within the church.
• Bathrooms are still available downstairs.

There will be no children’s programs until further notice. (We pray we can start up in the fall).WE APPRECIATE EVERYONE’S CO-OPERATIONAS WE WORK ON GETTING BACK TOGETHER. I look forward to seeing everyone who feels comfortable coming to church on June 21st, but I especially look forward to when we can all gather and feel safe.