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Sunday Service 10:00 am
April 7, 2019
Worship Speaker-Maria Young
Service Associate-Nancy Engels, Musician-Janice Luce
Greeter-Kathy Ketchum
Title–The Land Ethic Today
Bio-This year marks Maria’s 10th as Education Director at NorthWoods Stewardship Center. Maria graduated from Middlebury College, where she majored in environmental studies. She made a home
away from home in Jackson, Wyoming for most of her 20’s working with youth outdoors, and exploring the Tetons on telemark skis. Maria has led a community service trip in Costa Rica, helped build a small library high in the mountains of the Himalayas, explored outdoor recreation inside the
classroom and out in New Zealand, and studied conservation efforts in the highlands of Guatemala. Through each of these explorations, travels, and homes, it is the connection between people and their landscape that has most captivated her.
Topic– Maria will lead us through a close look at Aldo Leopold’s conservation ethic, its evolution, and relevance today. Her successes and challenges from 10 years of experience as the director of environmental education programs at the NorthWoods Stewardship Center will be shared as they relate to conservation efforts.
Worship Speaker-Maria Young
Service Associate-Nancy Engels, Musician-Janice Luce
Greeter-Kathy Ketchum
Title–The Land Ethic Today
Bio-This year marks Maria’s 10th as Education Director at NorthWoods Stewardship Center. Maria graduated from Middlebury College, where she majored in environmental studies. She made a home
away from home in Jackson, Wyoming for most of her 20’s working with youth outdoors, and exploring the Tetons on telemark skis. Maria has led a community service trip in Costa Rica, helped build a small library high in the mountains of the Himalayas, explored outdoor recreation inside the
classroom and out in New Zealand, and studied conservation efforts in the highlands of Guatemala. Through each of these explorations, travels, and homes, it is the connection between people and their landscape that has most captivated her.
Topic– Maria will lead us through a close look at Aldo Leopold’s conservation ethic, its evolution, and relevance today. Her successes and challenges from 10 years of experience as the director of environmental education programs at the NorthWoods Stewardship Center will be shared as they relate to conservation efforts.
April 14, 2019
Worship Speaker– Cindy Ross
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton, Musician– Janice Luce
Greeter-Sheila LaPoint
Title–The World is Our Classroom-How One Family Used Nature and Travel to Shape an Extraordinary Education
Bio-Cindy Ross is an adventurer and long-distance backpacker and cyclist, including traversing the Triple Crown of hiking-the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and the Continental Divide. Cindy is the author of seven books on adventuring in the outdoors, with her latest being The World is Our Classroom-How One Family Used Nature and Travel to Shape an Extraordinary Education. Cindy has written over 1,000 magazine and newspaper stories focusing on outdoor adventures and travel, many as a family. She has lectured on its virtues, its effects on children’s creative minds and their thirst for learning for twenty-five years.
Topic-In this special presentation on Learning from Faith-based Cultures, Cindy will share her family’s experiences around the world. She’ll illustrate with images of Buddhist monks in Nepal, Muslims in Turkish mosques, Hindus in India, and how it broadened their minds and made them more accepting and appreciative of others who are different. Cindy’s children: Sierra and Bryce were raised in the UU church, and had religious educators that greatly impacted who they became and influenced their life's work. Cindy’s multimedia presentation will be followed by Q&A and a book signing.
Worship Speaker– Cindy Ross
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton, Musician– Janice Luce
Greeter-Sheila LaPoint
Title–The World is Our Classroom-How One Family Used Nature and Travel to Shape an Extraordinary Education
Bio-Cindy Ross is an adventurer and long-distance backpacker and cyclist, including traversing the Triple Crown of hiking-the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and the Continental Divide. Cindy is the author of seven books on adventuring in the outdoors, with her latest being The World is Our Classroom-How One Family Used Nature and Travel to Shape an Extraordinary Education. Cindy has written over 1,000 magazine and newspaper stories focusing on outdoor adventures and travel, many as a family. She has lectured on its virtues, its effects on children’s creative minds and their thirst for learning for twenty-five years.
Topic-In this special presentation on Learning from Faith-based Cultures, Cindy will share her family’s experiences around the world. She’ll illustrate with images of Buddhist monks in Nepal, Muslims in Turkish mosques, Hindus in India, and how it broadened their minds and made them more accepting and appreciative of others who are different. Cindy’s children: Sierra and Bryce were raised in the UU church, and had religious educators that greatly impacted who they became and influenced their life's work. Cindy’s multimedia presentation will be followed by Q&A and a book signing.
April 21, 2019
Worship Speaker– Julian Sharp, M.Div
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton, Musician– Janice Luce
Greeter-Karen Hennig
Title–The Power of Pilgrimage
Bio-Julian is a recent graduate of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. He has served as a board member of local and national organizations including the Unitarian Universalist Association. He currently serves as a Trustee and Pilgrimage Leader of the Living Legacy Project, an organization that leads civil rights pilgrimages in southern states. Julian teaches community organizing at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont.
Topic– Julian will share his experience co leading a civil rights pilgrimage in Alabama. He will reflect on the success and backlash of the civil rights movement, particularly the struggle for voting rights.
Worship Speaker– Julian Sharp, M.Div
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton, Musician– Janice Luce
Greeter-Karen Hennig
Title–The Power of Pilgrimage
Bio-Julian is a recent graduate of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. He has served as a board member of local and national organizations including the Unitarian Universalist Association. He currently serves as a Trustee and Pilgrimage Leader of the Living Legacy Project, an organization that leads civil rights pilgrimages in southern states. Julian teaches community organizing at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont.
Topic– Julian will share his experience co leading a civil rights pilgrimage in Alabama. He will reflect on the success and backlash of the civil rights movement, particularly the struggle for voting rights.
April 28, 2019
Worship Speaker-Shannon Choquette
Service Associate-Karen Hennig, Musician– Janice Luce
Greeter-Lisa Erwin
Title–Food Matters
Bio-Shannon Choquette is originally from Taunton, Massachusetts and currently resides in West Burke. She is the Outreach Coordinator for the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District, and a member of the board at the Universalist Unitarian Congregation of Saint Johnsbury.
Topic–In our ever-globalizing food economy, how do we as UU’s formulate our personal food ethics? Shannon will delve into her own life long experiences as a UU and her professional experiences with food waste to reflect on how UUism can guide how we should view food, food waste, and food recovery.
Worship Speaker-Shannon Choquette
Service Associate-Karen Hennig, Musician– Janice Luce
Greeter-Lisa Erwin
Title–Food Matters
Bio-Shannon Choquette is originally from Taunton, Massachusetts and currently resides in West Burke. She is the Outreach Coordinator for the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District, and a member of the board at the Universalist Unitarian Congregation of Saint Johnsbury.
Topic–In our ever-globalizing food economy, how do we as UU’s formulate our personal food ethics? Shannon will delve into her own life long experiences as a UU and her professional experiences with food waste to reflect on how UUism can guide how we should view food, food waste, and food recovery.
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