Maggie's Farm

A brand new Congregational Church in CT, consecrated last night. and celebrating the congregation's first Sunday worship in the new home today. A joyful day. And for once, everyone fit.

It looks 200 years old, but built 2005-2006. Steel beams, and no pillars supporting the balcony. A church is just a building, but a congregation needs a home in which to worship, learn, and to pray together. Despite the fine building, the church is people - not steel and wood. This one is as plain as plain can be, but the spirit within is not plain.

Interesting facts: The original church of this congregation burned down in 1920. They have been holing up in a tiny, abandoned, rickety but beloved Methodist meeting house since then, from which a generation has worshipped, been married, and been buried. This congregation of about 300 broke off from the politically-activist UCC last year, by unanimous vote, showing that the Yankee independent spirit continues. Evangelical? Yes, a bit. Part of the Congregational movement was/remains that each congregation determines its own path by prayerfully seeking the will of God - each as one small component of the body of Christ.