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April 27, 2025
Reflection by Chris Wood
“Discovering Elderhood on the Less Traveled Road”
Chris Wood is the founder and, until this month, Executive Director of BALE (Building A Local Economy), based in South Royalton, Vermont. In addition to serving on numerous community boards and organizations, Chris has founded or co-founded many nonprofit Vermont organizations over the last 40 years including Rural Vermont, Vermont Community Loan Fund, Rainbow Coalition of Vermont, Vermont Resource Cooperative, Vermont Community Reinvestment Association, Onion River Arts Council, Vermont Committee on Southern Africa, Focus on Film, Vermont Jobs with Justice, Vermont Consumers’ Campaign for Health, Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance, Green Mountain Film Festival, Studio Place Arts, and Royalton Community Radio. His strength is networking, collaboration, and working with diverse groups/participants to strengthen community goals. His only recognizable relaxation is hiking, trailing behind his wife Sylvie on skis, and happily taking control in the kitchen (he also co-founded the quirky and beloved Horn of the Moon Café in Montpelier over 45 years ago).
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May 4, 2025
Reflection by Lyn Swett Miller
“13 Tons of Love: Compost & The Imagination”
Lyn Swett Miller is a photographer who recently moved to Quechee from Hanover, NH where she lived for 22 years. A founding member of the Sustainable Hanover Committee, a former history teacher and an innovative gardener, Lyn found inspiration in the compost pile. Over the course of 13 years she processed 13 tons of food waste. Along the way, compost became her muse for photography and metaphor for everything.
In her presentation, 13 Tons of Love: Compost & The Imagination, Lyn celebrates the power of showing up, the joy of being in relationship with our surroundings, and the possibilities for personal transformation when we literally dig into what we care about most.
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Monthly Reflection Themes
Worship Theme for April
Rebirth
Spiritual spring cleaning is a process of taking stock of our spiritual lives to clean out our hearts and souls. We take the old energy from Winter and cleanse it, ready for renewal and fresh energy in the Spring.
Worship Theme for May
Imagination
How do we allow imagination to play a role in our lives? Adults too frequently assume that imagination is most properly a realm for children and artists and that it’s something serious people outgrow. What would it be like to allow imagination to run in our inner lives, in our relationships with others, in our institutions, and in our connection to all that is?
Previous Sunday Services
April 20, 2025
Reflection by Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley
What Rolled Away the Stone - An Easter Reflection
Happy Easter! This is the time of brightly colored eggs, hot cross buns and bunny rabbits. This is the time of peace and miracles. Peace is so important in these days.
When we celebrate Easter, we always talk about Jesus. We talk about WHO was resurrected two thousand years ago. Perhaps, it is time now to talk about WHAT was resurrected.
Service Coordinator - Bob Williamson
Memorials and Tributes
We offer a place to honor those who have passed.
All are invited to send photos and stories to the office so that they can be included in the online tributes on this page of our website: https://www.northchapelvt.org/joys-sorrows-milestones/details
Contact us.
North Universalist Chapel Society 7 Church Street, Woodstock VT 05091 Directions/Map
Minister: Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley can be reached by calling or texting 802-369-5104.
Music Director: Diane Mellinger can be reached at 802-234-6619 or vermontdianem@aol.com
Administrative Assistant: Joanne Boyle can be reached at 802-369-9838 or northchapelcommunications@gmail.com
Director of Spiritual Education: Tatum Barnes can be reached at 646-675-9232 or tatumali1030@gmail.com