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Memorial Garden Update
Starting this Sunday, there will be a display in the Parish House, consisting of a variety of preliminary designs for the proposed Memorial Garden. There are two proposed sites, with different options for each site. Please take a look at these ideas!
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THEN: Join us for an informational meeting after worship on Sunday, March 10. We will be discussing the posted ideas and look forward to your feedback
- The Memorial Garden Committee.
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Sunday School Update -
your participation encouraged!
The Sunday School has been learning about three women in the Bible: Priscilla, Dorcas and Lydia. Though these three women are named, their stories are often very short, without a lot of context or details about who they were or the times they lived in. Their fathers, brothers, husbands, sons or other related men are often named. Beyond the obvious cultural and social realities of women in Biblical times, what are we to take from the fact that even most of the named women are not prominent in the Bible?
We are inviting you to join us in this investigation, by coming to church on Sunday and selecting one scripture to explore about an unnamed woman in the Bible. As you do so, consider what the woman’s story has to teach us. If you have time, follow her story by reading before and after the specific scripture to broaden your understanding of what was happening in her day-to-day world, as well as the larger spheres of time and place. I also found that some words like “witch” or “wench” had to be looked at more deeply. Those women were often healers, oracles, or psychics, not in the mainstream, sometimes consulted and often demonized, or at best misunderstood.
Read more here.
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Sunday, February 17: Organizing 101 Training, Immigration, 1:00-4:30pm
Location: Burlington, First Congregational Church, 38 S. Winooski Ave. 05401
This training precedes a New England summit training on nonviolent action to restore human rights in immigration. Learn the basics of the VIA organizing model - one-or-one conversations, picking an issue, conducting research, preparing and implementing a public action event, and evaluating and reflecting on the process - and how you can apply this model to issues of concern in your community.
We will carpool from central Vermont, leaving at noon this Sunday. Please call or email:
Sandra Batchelder, 802 505-1265, sandybatch@icloud.com or Melissa Battah, 802 651-8889, melissa@viavt.org.
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Think Spring!
Calling all who start vegetable transplants!
We are going to add a vegetable starter category to our annual Spring Plant Sale fundraiser!. If you would be willing to start 6 extra plants, email Mark, markcatlin@hotmail.com with your suggestions on what you would like to grow or what you would like to contribute. He will coordinate an overall list to ensure a variety of options. To participate in growing please sign up by Sunday March 10. Plant sale will be Sunday, May 12.
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This Sunday
4-6 pm
PLEASE let our advisors know if you are unable to make it. This means YOU!
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title: Lobster boat in snow
Sally Giddings Smith
“Out, Around, and Back Again: Paintings from California, France, and Maine.”
From the artist:
These paintings reflect my life since I left the Old Meeting House in 1990. Although I have no work from my life in DC, I will have a notebook of the houses I have designed, or renovated, plus a book of poetry which I illustrated for the Point Lobos Preserve in Carmel, California - in addition to the paintings.
Also included will be a series of paintings and prints I made for Valentine’s Day. Sarah and Richard Brock own one of the originals, which will be included. I hope you all will enjoy them!
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this week:
Thursday, Feb. 14
Meditation, 5:00pm
Sunday, Feb 17
Choir practice, 8:30am
Worship, 9:30am
Youth, 4pm
next week:
Wednesday, Feb. 20
Cafe at Noon
Bible study, 6:00pm
Choir practice, 7:00pm
Thursday, Feb. 21
Meditation, 5:00pm
Sunday, Feb. 24
Choir practice, 8:30am
Worship, 9:30am
Save the Dates:
March 6: Ash Wednesday Worship, 7pm
March 10: Memorial Garden Meeting
March 10: Sign up for Vegetable Starters
March 16: Family Worship Service
March 21: Taize Service
March 23: Elissa Farewell Gathering
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