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This is your weekly “Keeping In Touch” mid-week mailing!!!

These are the notices, links, announcements, and programs we hope will help keep you connected!

Sunday, May 7, 2023
Fifth Sunday of Easter

We continue to have both In-Person worship in our sanctuary at 87 Hill Street and live-stream worship via Zoom and FacebookLive. Be looking for the Sunday morning worship mailing to be sent out on Thursday. 
A reminder that this Sunday is a Communion Sunday.  Those who will be joining us for worship online should plan to gather bread (or crackers or other food item) and juice (or wine or other beverage) that can be used as elements for the celebration of the sacrament.
Plan to join us for refreshments after church, downstairs in our fellowship hall.

A Sneak Peak of May 7, 2023

Fifth Sunday of Easter
Scripture Lesson:  John 14:1-14
Sermon: “Troubled Hearts”

“The disciples who gather with Jesus for the farewell meal almost certainly have a measure of heartburn.  Their hearts are torn and disquieted as they hear Jesus say a long good-bye. They have been following Jesus since he began his public ministry, but they are at best, adolescent in their under-standing of his message, vision, and mission.  They are not able to compre-hend that their lived theology is about to radically change.  They have been looking for a Messiah and believe that they have found him.  They believe the Messiah to be immortal, but he is about to be executed.  They have a vi-sion of a messianic strongman who will liberate the people from occupation, but he is about to be seemingly defeated by oppression.  They believe that the Messiah will usher in an eternal kingdom of peace, but they are about to experience horror beyond their most terrified imaginations.” 

~ Shannon Michael Pater

What is troubling your heart?  How have you found yourself unsure of the way?  Can you imagine the way if you were to recognize God in and through those who have been Christ for you?
 

"Worship Video”

If you were unable to join us for virtual worship on Sunday, April 30, and would like to view the recorded service, click the link below to view the video.

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/R-H1kGNk4n2KjMOapLck1xKC3Umx6v8iwdwgmbuhNcM9JRdygUIEg8A9WEE9vnGE.m3qfA-gAfh-ZZUgo

Free Foot Clinic!!!

Please help spread the word!  Danville Senior Action Center is hosting a FREE foot clinic to anyone age 60+.  We need to gather names of interested folks ASAP to begin scheduling hopefully some time this month.  Clinic appointments will occur at our site with Beverly Sinclair, an RN with 25 years nursing experience and 9 years offering foot clinics.

People can call us at 802-684-3389, email us at danvillemealsite@gmail.com or write us at Danville Senior Action Center, P.O. Box 173, Danville, VT 05828 to reserve their spot or request more information.

Cathy Baker

Please sign up to bring flowers to church this year! 
There is a sign up sheet in the fellowship hall, or you can contact Gilly,
633-4013 or marilynbeattie56@gmail.com.

Covid Protocol

Masks are once more “Optional”.  Please feel free to either wear a mask, or not, according to your comfort and preference.

KN-95 masks will continue to be available in the Narthex of the church.

Weekly Contemplative Prayer Group

Rev. Doug will be offering a weekly Contemplative Centering Prayer gathering which will continue during the Easter season each Thursday morning at 8 AM.  You can join the group in-person at the front of the sanctuary at church, or you can join the group virtually, via Zoom.  The link for that Zoom option is found below.
 
See Rev. Doug if you have any questions about this program.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86094634410?pwd=QnkraGNIRUtSc1BycFhHTDRFTG4xdz09

Spring 2023 Time and Talent Extravaganza!
Online Auction
 
Our Time and Talent Online Auction is currently underway.  It will run through Wednesday, May 3 at 8:00 pm.  Use the link below to check out all the wonderful items found in our auction.
Saturday, May 6, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm – Pick up online auction items 1 at DCC in the Fellowship hall.

For questions contact Kitty Toll (684-3671), Cris Brown (684-3884) or Elaine Pacholek (424-1319) or call the church office (684-1151) or email (dcc@danville-ucc.org)

What’s Happening in the UCC

 

Rebranded webinar series will ‘Nurture the Soul’ starting May 4

by Maic D'Agostino | published on Apr 27, 2023

A popular webinar series that accompanied the wider United Church of Christ through the COVID-19 pandemic is getting a refresh.
Starting Thursday, May 4, the new weekly series, “Nurture the Soul,” will begin programming. It will replace the regular “Thursdays for the Soul” webinars.
“The series remains grounded in embodied discipleship, education and formation around issues and practices important to the UCC, but accessible during and outside the regular gathering time,” said the Rev. Tracy Howe, Faith, Education, Innovation and Formation (Faith INFO) team leader. “The name change carries over the foundations of the webinar series but invites more flexibility and possibility around engaging this dynamic resource.”
Each Thursday from 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET, “Nurture the Soul” will feature hosts from the Faith INFO team, as well as folks from across Justice and Local Church Ministries.
Its first episode, “Sacred Reckonings,” is a conversation between Associate General Minister the Rev. Traci Blackmon and the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, a UCC pastor who has worked for 35 years as an activist, trainer and theologian. These two UCC powerhouses will discuss “white settler-colonizer churches doing the work of reparations,” according to the event description.
Following the opening May 4 webinar, Howe will host a three-part series on local church security.

Deeper engagement

“Nurture the Soul” combines the legacies of weekly webinars that, beginning in 2020, fed UCC hearts and spirits.
“Faith INFO launched two different regular gathering times for the whole church at the start of the COVID pandemic, ‘Tuesdays for Nurture’ and ‘Thursdays for the Soul,’” said Howe. “These provided critical, regular virtual spaces for gathering, education, spiritual formation and journeying together in what was unprecedented.
“Over the last three years, the webinar space has changed as it responded to feedback and the ongoing needs of our local churches and greater de-nomination. We have learned that this space continues to provide a regular time of gathering, but has also come to be a recognized and widely used resource outside of that regular time slot, with most people accessing the content asynchronously through our YouTube channel.”

Click below to read the complete article:
https://www.ucc.org/rebranded-webinar-series-will-nurture-the-soul-starting-may-4/

[Check out the UCC’s YouTube channel using the link below.]
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNHiM8rZs0qsluznI0XV9ag?embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucc.org%2F&feature=emb_ch_name_ex

[Check out the trailer for new Nurture the Soul webinar.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvjIsLpPKJ8

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