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Sunday Service 10:00 am
September 1, 2019
Worship Speaker-Collective Power of Us (please bring a short story from your summer to share!)
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton
Musician-Janice Luce, Greeter-Kathy Ketchum
Title – The Power of Story; What’s Our Story?
Topic– Welcome back! This first Sunday of the new UU year will mark the end of our Summer services and the beginning of a new year together. Please bring a short story from your summer that is meaningful and special to you. In this service, we will also explore the power of stories, and the stories we bring with us into this space each Sunday. How is ‘story’ shaping how we interact, perceive, and feel?
Worship Speaker-Collective Power of Us (please bring a short story from your summer to share!)
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton
Musician-Janice Luce, Greeter-Kathy Ketchum
Title – The Power of Story; What’s Our Story?
Topic– Welcome back! This first Sunday of the new UU year will mark the end of our Summer services and the beginning of a new year together. Please bring a short story from your summer that is meaningful and special to you. In this service, we will also explore the power of stories, and the stories we bring with us into this space each Sunday. How is ‘story’ shaping how we interact, perceive, and feel?
September 8, 2019
Worship Speakers– Marybeth Redmond
Service Associate-Nancy Engels
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Karen Hennig
Title– In a Voiced Community We All Flourish: The Power of Story to Increase Soul
Bio-Marybeth is an ordained interfaith/interspiritual minister. She is also serving her first term in the Vermont House of Representatives on behalf of constituents residing in the Town of Essex (Chittenden 8-1). She assigned to the House Human Services and the Joint Legislative Child Protection Committees. In 2017, she was appointed to the Vermont Commission on Women. Marybeth is a long-time writer-journalist and holds a master’s from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Her work and career have focused on utilizing writing and public communications to raise up the voices of women, girls, refugees, incarcerated persons, and other marginalized
communities in our state. She currently serves as a partner in the Vermont Story Lab project, training nonprofit communicators to weave storytelling through the fabric of their organizations to increase impact and reach. She co-founded a program for Vermont’s incarcerated women called Writing Inside VT, which utilized writing and storytelling as a tool for self-change. This effort
resulted in a nationally published book of the women’s poetry and prose entitled Hear Me, See Me: Incarcerated Women Write in 2013.
Worship Speakers– Marybeth Redmond
Service Associate-Nancy Engels
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Karen Hennig
Title– In a Voiced Community We All Flourish: The Power of Story to Increase Soul
Bio-Marybeth is an ordained interfaith/interspiritual minister. She is also serving her first term in the Vermont House of Representatives on behalf of constituents residing in the Town of Essex (Chittenden 8-1). She assigned to the House Human Services and the Joint Legislative Child Protection Committees. In 2017, she was appointed to the Vermont Commission on Women. Marybeth is a long-time writer-journalist and holds a master’s from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Her work and career have focused on utilizing writing and public communications to raise up the voices of women, girls, refugees, incarcerated persons, and other marginalized
communities in our state. She currently serves as a partner in the Vermont Story Lab project, training nonprofit communicators to weave storytelling through the fabric of their organizations to increase impact and reach. She co-founded a program for Vermont’s incarcerated women called Writing Inside VT, which utilized writing and storytelling as a tool for self-change. This effort
resulted in a nationally published book of the women’s poetry and prose entitled Hear Me, See Me: Incarcerated Women Write in 2013.
Marybeth, a former TV news reporter, currently lives with her husband, Mark Redmond, executive director of Spectrum Youth and Family Services, and their teenage son, in Essex. For nearly 16 years, the Redmond family has walked alongside a New American family that was resettled in Vermont from a refugee camp in Kenya. That family’s children have grown up alongside
her own.
Topic– People’s stories are sacred stuff, a kind of holy ground where beauty, disintegration, joy, suffering, healing and growth converge. Can we make wider space for story and storytelling in our lives to create deeper, more authentic relationships with others, even with those we may disagree with?
How can we embody the vision of activist Terry Tempest Williams that “in a voiced community, we all flourish”. This talk will explore the power of story to increase soul in our personal lives and communities.
her own.
Topic– People’s stories are sacred stuff, a kind of holy ground where beauty, disintegration, joy, suffering, healing and growth converge. Can we make wider space for story and storytelling in our lives to create deeper, more authentic relationships with others, even with those we may disagree with?
How can we embody the vision of activist Terry Tempest Williams that “in a voiced community, we all flourish”. This talk will explore the power of story to increase soul in our personal lives and communities.
September 15, 2019
Worship Speaker-Gabriella Brand
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Lisa Erwin
Title– Stories from the Family of Man, Woman, and Child
Bio-Gabriella is a writer, a retired school head, and a world-wide adventurer. She is also a lay Minister in the Unitarian tradition, she divides her time between Connecticut, where she teaches foreign languages, and Quebec, where she volunteers with Syrian refugees.
Topic–Stories can help increase our compassion and our understanding of human nature. When we tell our own family stories or anecdotes, we gain insight into our own lives, and the lives of those we love. When we pass on stories of other people’s families, we build connections in the world. Gabriella
Brand’s true tales will take us from Istanbul to New York City, from the Vosges Mountains in France to our own backyards.
Worship Speaker-Gabriella Brand
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Lisa Erwin
Title– Stories from the Family of Man, Woman, and Child
Bio-Gabriella is a writer, a retired school head, and a world-wide adventurer. She is also a lay Minister in the Unitarian tradition, she divides her time between Connecticut, where she teaches foreign languages, and Quebec, where she volunteers with Syrian refugees.
Topic–Stories can help increase our compassion and our understanding of human nature. When we tell our own family stories or anecdotes, we gain insight into our own lives, and the lives of those we love. When we pass on stories of other people’s families, we build connections in the world. Gabriella
Brand’s true tales will take us from Istanbul to New York City, from the Vosges Mountains in France to our own backyards.
September 22, 2019
Worship Speaker-Joseph Gresser
Service Associate-Karen Hennig
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Sheila LaPoint
Title– Without Fear or Favor
Bio-Joseph Gresser, aka “Jig”, has reported for The Chronicle for over 14 years. He brings years of experience as a selectman in Stannard to his coverage of local issues. He also has a strong background as a maker and presenter of art.
Topic–What do citizens need from journalists in order to maintain our system of self-government?
Worship Speaker-Joseph Gresser
Service Associate-Karen Hennig
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Sheila LaPoint
Title– Without Fear or Favor
Bio-Joseph Gresser, aka “Jig”, has reported for The Chronicle for over 14 years. He brings years of experience as a selectman in Stannard to his coverage of local issues. He also has a strong background as a maker and presenter of art.
Topic–What do citizens need from journalists in order to maintain our system of self-government?
September 29, 2019
Worship Speaker-Susanne Schmidt
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Nancy Engels
Title– The Power of Story for Good
Bio-Susanne Schmidt MS, LCMHC is an organizational consultant, standup comic and master,storyteller. A Moth Story Slam winner, host and regional producer, Susanne was named the “Best of Valley” in the New England Public Radio Valley Voices Grand Slam. She is a seven-time Extempo champion, and a national performer who has appeared in the Boston Women in Comedy Festival, the Toronto SheDot Festival, and the Arctic Entries Main Stage in Anchorage, Alaska. Most recently her work has been featured on CBS news. Susanne is a professor of graduate studies in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Topic–When people ask “What is the big deal with storytelling?” Susanne Schmidt’s answer is always the same: stories remind us that we are not alone. They connect us to each other, and define who we are, where we have been, and where we hope to go. Long after we leave our place at the table, the stories of our hopes, triumphs, fears, and failures live on. Telling and hearing a good story hits us at a neurological level. How can we “use the power of story for good”?
Worship Speaker-Susanne Schmidt
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Nancy Engels
Title– The Power of Story for Good
Bio-Susanne Schmidt MS, LCMHC is an organizational consultant, standup comic and master,storyteller. A Moth Story Slam winner, host and regional producer, Susanne was named the “Best of Valley” in the New England Public Radio Valley Voices Grand Slam. She is a seven-time Extempo champion, and a national performer who has appeared in the Boston Women in Comedy Festival, the Toronto SheDot Festival, and the Arctic Entries Main Stage in Anchorage, Alaska. Most recently her work has been featured on CBS news. Susanne is a professor of graduate studies in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Topic–When people ask “What is the big deal with storytelling?” Susanne Schmidt’s answer is always the same: stories remind us that we are not alone. They connect us to each other, and define who we are, where we have been, and where we hope to go. Long after we leave our place at the table, the stories of our hopes, triumphs, fears, and failures live on. Telling and hearing a good story hits us at a neurological level. How can we “use the power of story for good”?
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