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Welcome to the Bolton Congregational Church UCC!

If you are visiting our website to know more about our congregation, please read on – there’s lots of information about our staff, our ministries of outreach and service, and our programs for people of all ages and interests.

If you are already a beloved member of our congregation – please read on, too! We try to keep up-to-date with our full schedule of Church activities and services – so that you can always know what’s coming.

In either case, if there is something you would like to know that you can’t find here – you can always try the “old fashioned” method and call the Church Office (860-649-7077) any weekday morning and receive answers to questions that might not be available here.

Our Church is located at 228 Bolton Center Road in Bolton, Connecticut.

Lobster Fest in August! All are invited to our Lobster Fest on Saturday, August 28, 2010, from 4 to 7 pm at Bolton Congregational Church. Price are $25 for a 1 1/2 lb. Lobster Dinner, $31 for twin lobsters; $20 for a New York Strip Steak; and $5 for a side order of steamers. Dinner includes baked potato, corn on the cob, tossed salad, beverage, and dessert. Reservations are requested; call the Church office at 860-649-7077 before August 21.

Mission Trip Videos. Videos from our church's Back Bay Mission Trip in April 2010 are posted on YouTube. You can see our dedicated team of volunteers in action as they worked to rebuild homes in Biloxi, Mississippi, that were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The videos are posted here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BackBayMission2010.

Hear a Moving Poem. Watch the video of Ian Macdonald's moving poem sharing his experience at The Micah Center, an outreach ministry of Back Bay Mission in Biloxi, MS, where Ian recently volunteered for a week along with 34 other members of our congregation. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajKYJZB_kG8.

Visit Our Church Store Online. Our Church Store website has been recently updated with more beautiful items for sale, such as quilts, jewelry, books, glassware, and other decorative, collectible, handcrafted and vintage items. We ship to all U.S. destinations. Click here to visit our Church Store.

Book Discussion This Fall. The Bolton Congregational Church and the Bolton Community Education Foundation will cosponsor a luncheon and book discussion on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm at the church's Chandler Hall, 228 Bolton Center Road in Bolton. The book to be discussed is "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East," by Sandy Tolan. Publishers Weekly summarized the book this way: "Tolan offers an easy-to-follow journey through a maddeningly stubborn conflict that has infused global politics since the 1940s. Based on his 1998 NPR documentary, Tolan personalizes the Arab-Israeli conflict by tracing the intertwined lives of a Palestinian refugee named Bashir Al-Khairi and (Israeli citizen) Dalia Eshkenazi Landau."

Present at the Oct. 24 discussion will be Yehezkel Landau, a professor at Hartford Seminary who was married for 25 years to Dalia Landau. Landau is Faculty Associate in Interfaith Relations at Hartford Seminary. After earning an A.B. from Harvard University (1971) and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School (1976), Landau made aliyah (immigrated) to Israel in 1978. A dual Israeli-American citizen, his work has been in the fields of interfaith education and Jewish-Arab peacemaking. From 1991 to 2003, he was co-founder and co-director of the Open House Center for Jewish-Arab Coexistence in Ramle, Israel. He lectures internationally on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations and Middle East peace issues, has authored numerous journal articles. At Hartford Seminary, Prof. Landau directs an interfaith training program for Jews, Christians, and Muslims called Building Abrahamic Partnerships. To attend this free event, please register by calling the church office at 860-649-7077.