The Connecticut District

of the New York Annual Conference

The United Methodist Church 

Welcome from the Superintendent

Welcome to this website and to our Connecticut District of the New York Conference.

As one who grew up in this area and served in churches of the District for 33 years before coming onto the Cabinet, I know well how diverse are our churches and what varied ministries happen here.  You may be looking for a very small church with a family feel such as offered in places like Georgetown or Redding, Higganum or Thomaston.  Perhaps you feel at home in a more suburban setting, which is the most common in our District, be that in Fairfield, New Haven or Litchfield counties.  Or you may be one excited by the challenges and opportunities of urban ministry.  We have exciting congregations in that setting in the major Connecticut cities of Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport and Waterbury.  As you navigate this website, you will find all kinds of congregations, different is size, location, style of worship, ministry strengths and priorities, from West Granby to West Haven, from Westport to Clinton, from Lakeville to Branford.

We are proud of our mission commitments in far away places like Bolivia and Haiti.  We are grateful also for the difference we have made in Biloxi, Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and even right in our own Conference as we have responded to recent flooding in Walton, New York.

I encourage you to explore our churches and our Conference through the links offered on this website.  Call churches of interest to you and easy to reach from where you are.  I hope that you will find us true to our mission motto, “Open hearts, open doors, open minds”, and that you will find wherever you visit in our District a friendly and faithful congregation.

May the Lord be with you, as you honor us with your prayers and presence.

George C. Engelhardt, Superintendent.

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