United Church of Strafford, Vermont
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Upcoming Service Notes for May 6, 2018
We will hear and sing three of the powerful South African Freedom Songs again this Sunday, in case you missed them last week. We also will sing three favorite hymns, “God of Grace and God of Glory,” and “Take My…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes for April 29, 2018
This Sunday we will sing what may be the most uplifting, energizing and inspiring hymns in our tradition, including a few that most of us have never sung before. It will be an exciting day, made more so by the…
Read MoreUpdate on South African Poster April 27-29
Below is updated information from the South African Event Poster. Please note that you are invited to come to any or all of these events. For instance, if singing is all you are interested in, you may come Saturday at 6:30…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes for Earth Day/Good Shepherd Sunday, April 22, 2018
The words pastor and pasture derive from the same Latin root. Our spiritual tradition is grounded in earthy images of shepherding and sheep safely grazing in green pastures and beside still waters. The Hebrew people were deeply attached to their…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes, April 1, 2018, Easter Services
Rev. Telos Whitfield of Straffford’s Unitarian Universalist church has prepared a beautiful community Easter Sunrise Service celebrating “A Circle of Light.” We will meet at 6:15 AM at Confluence, the former Gove Hill Retreat Center, at the top of Gove…
Read MoreSongs That Can Change the World: South African Freedom Songs
The next program in the series of Songs That Can Change the World will take place the weekend of April 27th-29th. We will immerse in the history and music of the South African freedom movement, focusing primarily on the life…
Read MoreHeartfulness Contemplative Training Circle Gatherings
Daily Heartfulness Circle by Zoom: We offer an informal meditation and conversation time every evening from 7:30 to 8:10 PM by Zoom only. We begin with silence until 7:55 and then those who wish may remain on for supportive conversation…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes, Palm/Passion Sunday, March 25, 2018
We begin this Sunday with the joyful, triumphant celebration of Palm Sunday. The children will distribute the palms as we sing “All Glory, Laud and Honor,” and the choir will sing an Alleluia and “Ride On, Ride On in Majesty.”…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes, March 18, 2018
Lent has an intense beauty to it. This Sunday we are as deep in that wilderness and darkness as we go. We will read the classic Lenten Psalm 51, with its poignant prayer that is part confession, part lamentation, part…
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