United Church of Strafford, Vermont
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Category: Advent Resources
Advent and Christmas 2023
Advent Begins November 26th! (See the calendar below.) Advent begins the new church year on Sunday, November 26th. Advent is about waiting and preparing in the darkness for the coming light. It is a season of great beauty from the…
Read MoreSpecial Holiday Services and Events 2022
Upcoming Special Services & Events Calendar Sun. Nov. 20 Thanksgiving Sunday 10:00 AM in worship with cherished hymns and music provided by Emerson Gale. Thurs. Nov. 24 Strafford Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Thanksgiving Morning at 10:00 AM in our sanctuary again…
Read More2021 Thanksgiving through Christmas Services, Concerts and Events
The Sunday services are available to stream on Zoom—for instructions, click here. See below for the Christmas Eve Zoom link, and please email the church at unitedchurchofstrafford@gmail.com to make reservations to attend Christmas Eve in person. Thanksgiving to Christmas Services…
Read MoreNOËL CONCERT Premiere November 29, 2020 4:30 PM
Please join us for the premiere of the NOËL CONCERT Premiere on the First Sunday of Advent, November 29, 2020 at 4:30 PM. We will be watching this concert together with its performers at its YouTube premiere at https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk. You can…
Read MoreRev. Deadra Ashton Reflection, November 19, 2020
We invited the Rev. Deadra Bachorik Ashton to reflect on what we as a people need right now, after all we have been through in 2020, in order to nurture our spiritual, emotional, psychological and physical health. Deadre is a…
Read MoreHymns and Reading for Live Service November 8, 2020
Here are two hymns for the live Advent Preparation Sunday service on Zoom on Sunday, November 8th. (To find out how to view the service click here.) Comfort, Comfort Ye My People conditor alme7c And here is a reading for…
Read MoreSermon from November 8, 2020
Preparing for “God With Us”Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, VermontNovember 8, 2020 Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost,Advent Preparation SundayJeremiah 33:14-16, Philippians 2:1-9, and verses from Isaiah 60, Mark 1 & 13 and Luke 1 [You can watch a…
Read MoreTools for Calm and Wisdom: Welcoming and Centering Prayer Practices
Which would feel better to you: to be anxious, tense, fretting, enslaved to obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior, despairing…or as calm as you can be under the circumstances, resting in quiet trust, finding a place of inner peace even in…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes for December 22, 2019, Mary Sunday
The Fourth Sunday of Advent is the climax, the most beautiful, hopeful, peaceful and quietly joyful of the season, and also perhaps the most empowering and most foundational to the spiritual and active life of the entire church year. At…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes for December 15, 2019, Pageant Sunday
Greta Thunberg has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year just days in advance of her appearance alongside Malala Yousafzai in Annemieke McLane’s new original Christmas Pageant entitled, “One Voice.” The play is about a little shepherd in Bethlehem…
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