Hey there!
We are a mixed community of singles, married couples, families, and young adults from many different backgrounds. What unites us is our desire to know more about Jesus. Some of us have fallen in love with Jesus in response to His love that He has showered on us. Others of us want this experience, but we are learning how to fall in love with Him. We are all on this journey together, and part of that journey includes gathering together every week to encourage one anther and listen to various individuals share their experience with Jesus. Sometimes we gather more than once a week if there are other events happening!
We welcome you to join our programs.
Weekly Gatherings
Prayer Meeting: Wednesday at 7 p.m. (virtual)
Youth Vespers: Friday at 7:30 p.m. (virtual)
Sabbath School: Saturday at 9:30 a.m. (in-person & virtual)
Worship Service: Saturday at 11:00 a.m. (in-person & virtual)
Please send us a message for the link to join the prayer meeting and vespers. For Sabbath School and Worship Service, you are welcome to join us onsite at or online via YouTube.
More About Seventh-day Adventists
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a mainstream Protestant church with approximately 19 million members worldwide, including more than one million members in North America. The Seventh-day Adventist Church seeks to enhance quality of life for people everywhere and to let people know that Jesus is coming again soon.
Adventists believe a Trinity of three persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—make up one God. They made salvation possible when Jesus, the Son, came to earth as a baby in Bethlehem and lived a sinless life in accordance with the Father's will. When Jesus was crucified for the sins of the people of the world and arose from the dead on the third day, victory was won for everyone.
When He returned to heaven following the resurrection, Jesus left the Holy Spirit to serve as our Comforter and Counselor. He promised to return to earth a second time to complete His plan of salvation and take His people to heaven. Adventists are among the believers who look forward to that day.
Adventists believe that God is concerned with the quality of human life, and that everything—the way we live, eat, speak, think, treat each other, and care for the world around us—is part of His plan. Our families, our children, our jobs, our talents, our money, and our time are all important to Him.
Pastor's Corner
As the pastor of CVAC, he guides the members in spiritual, mental, emotional, physical health and reaches out to the community to support them. Please contact him if you need support or guidance.
Pastor Joseph Piresson
Dear Friend,
I am honored that you have taken the time to visit our church website. We at the Connecticut Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church want you to know that our doors are open wide to everyone and our hearts are shut to no one seeking a safe place for spiritual growth and encouragement. Here we strive to promote an atmosphere of love and compassion hinging on the eternal Gospel of our Savior Jesus. We believe God loves you more than anything in this world and that He has a special plan for your life. If because of trials and discouragement in life you have not been able to see how much He loves you we would like to ask you to please let us help you to see this reality through the study of His Word. So, if you are a spiritual seeker just beginning your walk toward God, or a committed believer continuing your walk with Him, you will find a home in our Church. We believe the Bible’s teaching that all Christians are brothers and sisters in Christ and therefore are all members of God’s family. As the pastor of this church, I would like to personally invite you and your family to come and experience the joy of worshipping God with us. It will be a great pleasure to meet you.
About Pastor Piresson:
Pastor Joseph Piresson was born in Brazil, and became a Seventh-day Adventist at the age of 14 and by the age of 21 he had already been a Pathfinder, Pathfinder counselor, Youth, Sabbath School, and Evangelism director. In order to pay for his schooling from academy through college he did literature evangelism. God blessed his work and he became a successful literature evangelist. So at the age of 24 he was invited by the Columbia Union Conference in the US to do literature evangelism in New Bedford, MA. It was on his first day in the US that he met Fatima, now his wife of 28 years. Pastor Piresson started his ministry as a full-time church pastor in June of 1998. He is a graduate from Atlantic Union College with a double major in Theology and Spanish, and a Minor in Education. He also earned an M.Div. degree from Andrews University. In 2010 and 2011 he took graduate classes in Archaeology at Southern Adventist University and at the Hebrew University In Jerusalem. And he was also able to participate as a member of the Archaeological team doing excavations during the seasons of 2010 and 2011 in Khirbet Qeiyafa, a fortified settlement resting atop a hill overlooking the Elah Valley of the Judean Shephelah in south-central Israel. His wife, Fatima, has been an educator for over 35 years, and in the last 3 years a high school vice-principal. She is also a graduate of Atlantic Union College. They have been blessed with two wonderful children, Ambrosee who is a 27 year old Music Major graduate from at the University of Connecticut, and Joseph II, a 20 year old Piano Performance Major, also at the University of Connecticut. He sincerely believes we are living in the last days of earth’s history and it is his earnest desire to always be an instrument used by God in the preaching of the Gospel. He believes God has a special message, the Three Angels Message, and a special people, the Seventh-day Adventists, to reach a perishing world, His wayward children. Besides being a district pastor, Pr. Piresson is the Southern New England Conference Prayer Ministry Coordinator. He has been the pastor of the Connecticut Valley and Rockville-Tolland church district since October 2021.
