Connecticut Cooperative Parishes

Within The United Methodist Church, cooperative parishes enable congregations, church-related agencies, and pastors in a defined geographic area to develop relationships of trust and mutuality that results in coordinated church programs and ministry.
 

Connecticut Central Cooperative Parish - Yongyeun Lee, Parish Coordinators

  • Avon: Memorial 
  • Bristol: Prospect 
  • Forestville: Asbury 
  • Litchfield 
  • Plainville 
  • Torrington: First
     

The Bridge Cooperative Parish - Suhee Kim, Parish Coordinator

  • Bridgeport: Golden Hill 
  • Bridgeport: Summerfield 
  • Fairfield: Grace 
  • Milford: Mary Taylor Memorial 
  • Stratford
     

The Eastern Fairfield Cooperative Parish - Jacob Hanbin Eun, Parish Coordinator

  • Easton: Jesse Lee 
  • Monroe, CT
  • Trumbull: Long Hill 
  • Trumbull: Nichols
  • Shelton: Huntington 
  • Shelton: First
     

Greater Hartford Cooperative Parish - Crystal Paul-Watson, Parish Coordinator

  • Bloomfield
  • Hartford: Korean 
  • Hartford: North 
  • Hartford: UMC 
  • Newington & Rocky Hill 
  • West Hartford 
  • Wethersfield 
  • Windsor: Trinity
     

The Midstate Cooperative Parish - Carol Bloom, Parish Coordinator

  • Cheshire 
  • Durham: United Churches & Wallingford 
  • Middlefield Federated
  • Southington: Grace 
  • Yalesville
     

The New Room Cooperative Parish - Richard L. Hanse, Parish Coordinator 

  • The New Room - East Berlin, Kensington, Meriden: First, Middletown, CT: First, & South Meriden: Trinity, Higganum 
     

The Farmington River Cooperative Parish - Gene Isaac Ott, Parish Coordinator

  • Copper Hill, North Canton: Community & Washington Hill
  • Pleasant Valley, CT 
  • Simsbury
     

Shoreline & Havens Cooperative Parish - Martha A. Epstein, Parish Coordinator

  • Branford 
  • Clinton 
  • Hamden Plains 
  • New Haven: First & Summerfield 
  • New Haven: St. Andrew’s & West Haven: First & Wesley
  • New Haven: Westville 
  • North Haven: Faith
     

The Valley Cooperative Parish - David W. Mantz, Parish Coordinator

  • Ansonia: First 
  • Derby 
  • Naugatuck 
  • Seymour 
  • Seymour: Great Hill 
  • Waterbury 
  • Watertown
  • Woodbury
     

Western Frontier Cooperative Parish - John P. Parille, Parish Coordinator

  • Bethel, CT & West Redding: Long Ridge
  • Danbury 
  • Gaylordsville 
  • New Fairfield: New Life 
  • New Milford 
  • Newtown