United Church of Strafford, Vermont
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Upcoming Service Notes for October 20, 2019
We often do not have a choice about the struggles we go through, but we always have a choice about how to go through them. This Sunday we will celebrate the miraculously heroic souls among us who hold onto their…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes for October 13, 2019, Refugee Sunday
We are suggesting a homework assignment to prepare for this Sunday’s presentation on refugees by artist and activist Marcia Bushnell. We will have a brief worship service in the sanctuary at 10:00 AM and then a symbolic refugee journey to…
Read MoreSave Fuel and Stay Warm this Winter with Window Inserts
Dear Church Family, Please consider making your home more energy efficient for this heating season and please especially share this information with lower income neighbors! Save Fuel and Stay Warm this Winter with Window Inserts The Strafford Energy & Climate…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes for October 6, 2019
This Sunday offers the dynamic combination of World Communion Sunday and the return of George Kinder for our Golden Civilization Conversation II. We will take the Golden Civilization conversation much farther and deeper, following our fist conversation last April. (See…
Read MoreMother’s Out Front Anti-Oppression and Anti-Racism Online Trainings
Dear Church Family, The issues of climate change and racism have a direct, tragic connection, similar to so many other connections like climate and refugees, climate and economic injustice, climate and war, climate and weakening democracy and more. Please see…
Read MoreLord’s Acre 2019: Living La Vida Local! October 12, 2019
Our 2019 Lords Acre celebration will be held this Saturday, October 12 at Barrett Hall. This year, the celebration rejoices in our local community and how we support each other. There will be a dinner with continuous seating from 5:00 to 7:00…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes for September 29, 2019
The founder of Dartmouth’s Religion Department died this week after a long and faithful life. Fred Berthold was a wise and generous-hearted professor, mentor and promoter of social justice. Fred wrote a book on “the role of anxiety in contemporary…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes for September 22, 2019
Many people think that the purpose of church is to make us behave well so we will be saved and go to heaven, but it is hard to see how we can reach that conclusion if we read what Jesus…
Read MoreThese Next Two Communication Workshops Are Crucial
Dear Neighbors, The first workshop in the healthy communication series was full of useful information and received rave evaluations, but it was just the background to the next two that contain the truly life-changing skills and techniques. You did not have…
Read MorePastoral Letter: Why Strike 9/20 if Climate Is Not Your First Concern
Dear Neighbors, What is happening to our climate will affect everyone in negative ways—in fact it already is, and the forecast is for rapid escalation. Today’s children will feel it the most, but if you are in your 60s or…
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