Christian Education

Church School is in session Sunday mornings from September through June. Pilgrims class (children K-6) teachers are Corinna Tamburini and Jane Murray and Seekers class (teens) teachers are Jasen and Christine Lambright.

Adult Forums at First Presbyterian are open to everyone and there is never a charge to attend. They are usually held after worship (about 11:45 AM). Forums are presentations and discussions about current topics of interest. If you have a particular interest you'd like to see featured or would like to make a presentation please contact the church office.

2012 Forum Schedule

Date	Topic	Presenter	FPC Contact Person
February 5th	Nicaragua: Environment and Women's Issues	Kate and Sherwood Anderson	Elder June O'Neil
March 4th	China	Alice & Bob Evans (Plowshares Institute)	Reverend Tom Speers
April 1st	Global Ethics	Heidi Hadsell (Hartford Seminary)	Elder Shirley Dudley

 

Past Forums

Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History. A documentary film chronicling one student's ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies. The film offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today, a cornerstone of anti-bullying efforts in middle and high schools.

The i-Quilt design for downtown Hartford was a presentation by David Fay, CEO of the Bushnell. iQuilt is an innovative plan for the future of our neighborhood and city.

Bishop Paul Verryn, an anti-apartheid activist whose church, spoke about the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg, which shelters more than 2000 Zimbabwean refugees and homeless South Africans every night. He has become a leading voice for South Africa's poorest people, a role which the South African government and his own church leaders have not always welcomed. At the time of his forum presentation, Paul was on leave from his ministry at Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg and teaching a course at Hartford Seminary.