Stephen Chapin Garner

Chapin is the Senior Minister of The Congregational Church of New Canaan, in New Canaan, CT. Chapin is a native New Yorker, having grown up over the border from New Canaan in Westchester County. His greatest passions in life are being a husband, father, and pastor.

Chapin is a graduate of Boston University School of Theology, and he holds Doctor of Ministry degree in preaching from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor at the Village Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts and the United Church of Christ in Norwell, Massachusetts.

Chapin has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alban Institute, an adjunct faculty member in homiletics at Boston University School of Theology and General Theological Seminary, and a resident preacher at the Church at Point O’Woods in Fire Island, NY; and the Cuttyhunk Community Church, in Cuttyhunk, MA.

Chapin currently leads the Raymond Preaching Fellowship program supported by the historic Deacon William E. Raymond Trust.