First Church

Welcome back to First Church! Our new program year is going to be exciting and fulfilling.  While much will stay the same, there is much that is new.  We welcome Bill Speed as our new Director of Music Ministries.  Bill previously served ten years as the Director of Music at Bethesda Lutheran Church in New Haven, and is also a geneticist.  We also welcome Lisa Horst as our Acting Associate Minister of Children and Families.  She is a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School, originally from California. In addition Andrea Schmidt, our Church School Assistant, has been given more hours to help transition to new leadership in our Christian education program.  Please greet Bill, Lisa and Andrea warmly and give them all the good-will and love they will need and deserve.  We are immensely grateful to the search committees that worked so diligently over the summer to find these wonderful new staff members.