Our church is on the corner of Dunbar Hill Road and Benham street, in Hamden.  I’ve been pastor here since February, 1994.  The people who started this church in the late 1940’s called it Dunbar United Church.  They met in the Fire House for dances on Saturday nights and then got together again the next morning to worship.  Eventually, they bought land from a farm across the street and built a church with a gold dome on top, and a large gold cross on top of that.  The architecture is a mix of Byzantine and Greek Revival, but the congregation is totally Connecticut.  At some point the church became a part of The United Church of Christ, so “of Christ” was added to “Dunbar United Church,” to make “Dunbar United Church of Christ.”
        We call ourselves Open and Affirming which means we celebrate the image of God in each person as it shines through every race, color, age, ability, and sexual orientation.  I keep our focus on Jesus Christ, the human expression of divine love.  The love of Jesus is our key to understanding the Bible and our Christian faith.  The apostle Paul told the Philippians: “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.”  That is what we seek here.  We ask God to cultivate the “mind of Christ” in us and we trust God to work this miracle of transformation every day.

Rev. George Manukas