Dec 12, 2025 | Pastor's Blog
Last year I was at Redlands UCC in Southern California, and I was officiating our first Blue Christmas service. I was carrying some grief and sadness in my own life but had a particular congregant in mind who had lost his wife to brain cancer earlier that week. I...
Nov 25, 2025 | Pastor's Blog
By Rev. Joe Zarro, Interim Senior Minister It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but I’m wishing you a “Happy New Year” because this Sunday marks the beginning of a new Christian liturgical year. Advent has many meanings, and one of them is “beginning.” It is the beginning...
Nov 13, 2025 | Pastor's Blog
By Interim Sr. Minister Rev. Joe Zarro “The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not regretfully or under compulsion, for...
Oct 30, 2025 | Pastor's Blog
By Rev. Joe Zarro, Interim Senior Minister On October 19, I kicked off our Stewardship Season with a sermon on Teamwork – how we are all part of the body of Christ, that we have different gifts and abilities, and it’s only when we come together, and practice our faith...
Oct 17, 2025 | News, Pastor's Blog
By Rev. Joe Zarro, Interim Senior Minister In this year’s Stewardship Campaign, we are going to celebrate the best aspect of team sports: community and shared purpose. Our theme “One Team, One Goal” highlights both our unity and diversity, how we are all have...
Oct 3, 2025 | News, Pastor's Blog
An essay by Rev. Racquel Ray submitted for Doctor of Ministry work at Boston University, September 2025 The land upon which the [Barrington Congregational Church] church is built has a long and poetic history. “As the first leaves of sassafras and strawberry emerged...
