L to R: Rev. Dr. Llewellyn P. Smith, Rev. Clara Sparks, Rev. Greta MacRae, Rev. Hall Kirkham, Rev. Shelly Davis, Bishop Dwayne Royster, Rev. Jennie Barrett Siegal, Rev. Wendy Vander Hart, Rev. Liz Garrigan-Byerly, Rev. Dr. Dennis C. Bailey, Rev. Rachael Pettingill-Rasure, Rev. Matthew Rasure, Rev. Joy Fallon.

On Sunday, April 26, East Congregational Church celebrated the official installation of Pastor Shelly Davis as its new Settled Pastor. Rev. Wendy Vander Hart, Associate Conference Minister, represented the Massachusetts Conference of the UCC. Numerous supportive clergy were present, some of them friends of Pastor Shelly, some of them members of the Milton Interfaith Clergy Association (MICA), and one of them (Rev. Dr. Llewellyn Smith) a former East Church pastor. Bishop Dwayne Royster travelled from Philadelphia to deliver a sermon entitled “Change the World, Just Start in Milton.” Katie Conlon, Chair of Milton’s Board of Selectmen, offered the Greeting from the civic community. Rev. Hall Kirkham, President of the Milton Interfaith Clergy Association, offered the Greeting from the religious community.