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Sunday’s Reflection
This Sunday's Service
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Reflection by Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley
“Love Boldly”
Love boldly against a sea of trouble.
Honor peace and friendship.
Let's sing to bring Spring and Heaven on down to earth.
- Upcoming Service -
March 30, 2025
Reflection by Shari Borzekowski
"Why HomeShare?"
This Sunday, Shari Borzekowski will talk about HomeShare and how it facilitates Aging at Home, while helping people find affordable housing. HomeSharing is aided by a case manager who helps to build the relationship between Host (who owns their home) and Guest (who needs an affordable place to live). A kind of housing match-maker, Shari guides applicants through the steps of the process, introducing likely matches to each other, helping them to create a HomeShare Agreement outlining expectations of service and rent, and keeping an eye on the match to ensure it is going smoothly, or helping it to end when it's not.
Shari Borzekowski has been living in Killington with her family for 20 years.
She has become part of the Woodstock community first as an active member of Congregation Shir Shalom, then as a “Yoh Mama” when both of her kids took to the stage, and then for the past 10 years at the Thompson Senior Center. Her role as Aging at Home Resource Manager has grown to include work as a HomeShare Vermont Case Manager. The work is compelling and meaningful as she hopes to help solve Vermont’s housing crisis one HomeShare match at a time!
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Monthly Reflection Themes
Worship Theme for March 2025
Strength
“After the shattering, all that remains is another ordinary day.” from In The Bleak Season by By Donna Moriarty.
Strength can mean staying centered, or being true to yourself by using skills and patterns that keep you connected to the world. It can also mean building up from your foundation, recognizing the roots you have grown.
Previous Sunday Services
March 16, 2025
Discipline and the Passionate Fire
Reflection Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley
Far above us, in outer space, Dr. McCoy of Star Trek fame was boiling over with rage. Spock turned to McCoy, dispassionately and said, “Really, Doctor McCoy, you must learn to govern your passions. They will be your undoing.” What are the merits of being dispassionate? When is it appropriate to do otherwise? Is it possible to be disciplined in the tending of the passionate fires within us?
Service Coordinator - Kathy Astemborski
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