The Spire
Noroton Presbyterian Church
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2011 Post Road, Darien, CT 06820
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203-655-1451
O
ne of
the
great promises
of our faith in
Christ is that the
old and worn are
made new. Once we join the faith
we are told that “in Christ’ we are a
“new creation” (II Cor. 5:17). The
end of time will culminate with the
revelation of a “new heaven and a
new earth.” (Rev 21:1). The worn
out is gone, the new has arrived. As
much as we resist change at times,
isn’t it good to know that our faith re-
minds us that we are becoming some-
one who is “new and improved?”
This is our great hope, especially if
we have been stuck in a rut or in a
self-defeating pattern. The Old Tes-
tament is the story of Israel constantly
needing a renewal of purpose and
faith, which God provided through
the prophets.
Seven years ago, our Session started
a planning process with an architect
(possibly a modern day "prophet") to
address some places where our minis-
tries had become “stuck” due to poor
performing facilities. We knew that
many of the systems of the church
facilities (the roofs, windows, electri-
cal, sewage, air conditioning, to name
a few) were past their useful life while
some had even been in service for 60
years. Multiple levels throughout our
building made for stairs everywhere
and tight hallways, which made mov-
ing from one end to the other difficult
for our seniors and for those with
babies in strollers. Our playgrounds
located across our traffic flow to the
parking lot made our situation quite
dangerous. We had a lot to address.
Our first “renewal” project was the
replacing of our historic steeple in
2008. We then began a thorough
planning process which determined
that it was time to redo the layout of
our property and parking with great
improvements to the building. A plan
was purposed to take out the, "poor
performing" 3,000 square foot, “cen-
ter core,” and replace it with 14,000
square feet of central offices, fellow-
ship and educational spaces (freeing
up the CE wing to be used more fully
for children 7-days-a-week). In 2010,
our architect, Dennis Kowal noted
that we had, “an over performing min-
istry in an under performing building.”
His design became our master plan
and the basis for the funds that we
raised as we began our transformative
Foundations for the Future
journey.
This month, we are ready to finish
All Things New
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September 2015
Summer Worship Schedule
September 6 & 13
8:00 a.m. Weed Beach
10:00 a.m. Chapel
Fall Worship Schedule
Begins September 27
Chapel - 8:00 a.m.
Sanctuary - 9:00 & 10:30 a.m.
Open Doors - 5:00 p.m.
Upcoming Preaching Schedule
9/6 -
Pastor Sam Schreiner
9/13 -
Pastor Brandi Drake
9/20 - Rededication Sunday
Pastor Sam Schreiner
One service only -
9:00 a.m. Sanctuary,
Child care 3mos -3yrs
No Sunday school
9/27 - FallWorship Begins
(See above)
Pastor Sam Schreiner
9&10:30 a.m.
Child care 3mos-3yrs
Sunday School Pre-k - 5th Grade
Table of Contents
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