Join us for Social Justice Sunday at First Church Stratford! During our 10 AM worship service, our guest speaker is Reverend Marilyn B. Kendrix, Retired Bridge Conference Minster of the Southern New England Conference UCC.

Prior to ordination, Marilyn worked for over 15 years as an Organizational Development Consultant principally at AT&T but also in other profit and not-for-profit settings. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Conference and participated with the Southern New England Conference Planning Team.

Marilyn earned her Bachelor’s degree from Spelman College, an HBCU school in Atlanta, Georgia, her Executive MBA and an MA in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, both from the University of New Haven. She received her Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School and a certificate from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Since 2012, her personal ministry has included preaching at over 100 churches to raise awareness about mass incarceration in America. In her ministry to seek criminal justice reform, Marilyn co- wrote The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked the American Dream (Significance Press, 2014). Her current social justice preaching ministry addresses systemic racism and the controversy over critical race theory. Currently Marilyn is currently writing another book, Who the Real Christians Are: A Social Justice Memoir.

Marilyn retired from the Southern New England Conference in January, 2021 and is married to her best friend, Alan. Together they have 3 children, 6 grandchildren and two dogs, Bear and Sugar.