United Church of Strafford, Vermont
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On Line Worship Service, July 5, 2020
Welcome to this online worship service of the United Church of Strafford, Vermont for July 5th, 2020. This service is very different from the format we have been following. The heart of it is Frederick Douglass’s speech from July 5, 1852,…
Read MoreOn Line Worship Service, June 28, 2020
Welcome to this service. This week’s service features three teachings entitled “You Have What the World Needs,” and it sets out in three different directions to define what that is, and each of the three paths reaches the same conclusion:…
Read MoreCall to Worship and Herbert Goertz’s Haiku, June 28, 2020 On Line Service
[You can watch a video recording of this Call to Worship at the end of this text. To see the entire service, click here.] Teaching One: You Have What the World Needs—Call to Worship and Herbert Goertz’s Haiku Is God…
Read MoreOn Line Worship Service, June 21, 2020
Welcome to this service. This service is paired with the June 14th service, reflecting on the same Chapters 9 and 10 of Matthew where Jesus had compassion on the crowds of hurting and lost people and organized a movement to…
Read MoreCall to Worship and Mel’s Haiku, June 21, 2020 On Line Service
[You can watch a video recording of this Call to Worship at the end of this text. To see the entire service, click here.] Call to Worship and Mel Goertz’s Haiku Teaching One: What Revolution? An Anglican Bishop in England…
Read MoreAnti-racism Strafford Event June 25, 2020
June 25th Strafford Action Supporting Black Lives Matter and a Just and Fair America Our congregation will be participating in a Strafford action organized by Susan Cloke. It will take place on the month anniversary of the murder of George…
Read MoreOn Line Worship Service, June 14, 2020
Welcome to this service. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that the Civil Rights Movement was bringing to light the interrelated flaws in the systems and structures of our society and it was clear that a “radical reconstruction…
Read MoreCall to Worship and Mel’s Haiku, June 14, 2020 On Line Service
[You can watch a video recording of this Call to Worship at the end of this text. To see the entire service, click here.] Imagine growing up as a black person in apartheid South Africa, knowing that your tin shack…
Read MoreOn Line Worship Service, June 7, 2020
Welcome to this service. Questions of responsibility and response-ability run through this service. That theme was not planned, it was a natural and Spirit-led choice of the different people who contributed to the service’s creation, including the music Annemieke McLane…
Read MoreCall to Worship and Mel’s Haiku, June 7, 2020 On Line Service
[You can watch a video recording of this Call to Worship at the end of this text. To see the entire service, click here.] One of our thoughtful, wise elders posed a question to me this week in a letter,…
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