All Souls Church will welcome Joe Wiah, the Executive Director of the Brattleboro office of the Ethiopian Community Development Council. He will describe their current work of aiding immigrants and refugees to settle successfully in their new homes. Our offering for the month of January will be shared with the ECDC. We anticipate that this … Continue reading Sunday January 5 – Welcoming Neighbors
Let’s meet with open hearts! Together we will celebrate some of the traditions around the holidays that emphasize gratitude and generosity. If you would like to suggest a story, poem, or song, please contact the service leader, Christina Gibbons. We anticipate that this service will be both in-person and on Zoom. Click right here Sunday … Continue reading Sunday, December 15th – Holiday Voices
In this lay-led service, we will hear from Liv Berelson from the Community Asylum Seekers Project (CASP), a local non-profit organization, which provides a supportive community to those in the process of seeking asylum in the United States. We will be sharing our offering for the month with CASP to help further their compassionate work. … Continue reading A Place of Safety
Sunday, September 15th – Supporting Affordable Housing We all know there is a critical shortage of affordable places to live in Windham County. On this Sunday, come hear how one local organization, Brattleboro Area Affordable Housing, is addressing the problem. We will be sharing our offering collection with them during the month of September. Our … Continue reading Sunday, September 15th – Supporting Affordable Housing
This service will be a feast of inspiring poetry and lovely music. Poems by Amelia Earhart, Don Marquis, Andrea McAuslan, Sara Teasdale, Henry David Thoreau, and others will be read aloud followed by the musical settings of our own ASC choir director, Tom Baehr. Since our choir will complete our year at the end of … Continue reading Butterflies Emerge
Our poets will explore the Gift of Liberating Love with a bouquet of offerings, some well loved from the past and some original to the day. If you would like to join the readers with a poem of your own on this morning, please contact Christina Gibbons by mid January. We anticipate that this service … Continue reading “The Poetry of Liberating Love”
We will celebrate the last Sunday of the year by hearing Voices from the Congregation. In this service, several participants will read passages and reflect on the value that can be found in the state of not knowing, of accepting ambiguity and wonder. We anticipate that this service will be both in-person and on … Continue reading The Gift of Mystery
This Sunday we celebrate the Unitarian Universalist practice of drawing inspiration from many sources. Church member Ed Burke will reflect on his four years of leading youth through an exploration of what to believe. Readings come from Opinions and Opossums, the latest novel by local author Ann Braden. Shital Kinkhabwala will lead us in chant. … Continue reading Opinions and Opossums
For this informal poetry service, we will sit in a semicircle and read to each other from a packet of poems about summer. You can choose a poem from the handout to read aloud. There will be several poems suitable for children. If you usually attend on Zoom, come prepared with a favorite. If would … Continue reading “A Bouquet of Summer Poems”
Poetry services are a beloved twice yearly tradition here at All Souls Church. On this Sunday we will honor the monthly UU theme of Finding Our Center by sharing poems which focus on and distill our sense of who we are. If you would like to read a poem, one of your favorites or one … Continue reading Finding Our Center Through Poetry
