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11/30 from 3-6 PM in the Fellowship Hall. WCC is co-hosting a winter wreath-making event with the Weybridge Community Group. Come and help decorate the church, make a wreath for yourself or for a neighbor.

by Rosemary Wahtola Trimmer

Thank you for this day made
of wind and rain and sun and the scent
of old-fashioned lilacs. Thank you

for the pond and the slippery tadpole
and the wild iris that opened beside the pond
last week, so pale, so nearly purple,

their stems already flagged and bent.
Thank you for the yellow morels hiding in the field grass,
the ones we can only see when we are already

on our knees. And thank you for the humming
that rises out of the morning as if mornings
are simply reasons to hum. What a gift,

this being alive, this chance to encounter the world.
What a gift, this being a witness to spring—
spring in everything. Spring in the way

that we greet each other. Spring in the way the golden eagle
takes to the thermals and spirals up to where
we can barely see the great span of its wings.

Spring in the words we have known
since our births. Like glory. Like celebrate.

Hello Weybridge Church and Friends!

This week it was time to make an important seasonal shift in my life: from hot coffee to cold-brewed morning coffee. There’s always coffee and, like I am sure some of you do as well, the making of the first coffee of the day is a ritual. Whether I wake up ready to greet the day or, in the words of Saint Dolly Parton, I “tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition,” the first coffee is important.

This past week I felt it was time to switch from morning hot pour-over to overnight cold brew, which means I now have to remember to set it up the night before, make sure I’ve filled the ice cube trays, etc. 

We are about to make a shift in the seasons of the church year, too. This Sunday, Trinity Sunday, marks the turning point between the six months of church festivals (Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost) and the preparatory seasons they bring (Advent and Lent) and the six months of Ordinary time.  

Last Sunday on Pentecost we celebrated the act of proclamation and thought about the many ways that we as Weybridge Church proclaim our faith and where we could perhaps expand those efforts.

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, when we will remember that God is bigger, more expansive, more surprising than we could ever fit into doctrine. This is our push into a time of putting into practice what we have taken in from the past few months of celebration and preparation.

I hope to see you under the Tent!

Peace,

Caryne 

Are you at least 12 years old, like to sing, but rarely feel comfortable making singing sounds outside of the privacy of the shower? 

Do you like to sing, sing in choirs or bands and have experience singing, and you like expanding your singing horizons?  

Do you like the idea of singing but are timid and rarely make singing sounds in public or in private?

If any of these descriptions are you, consider joining Patricia Norton for a Community Flow Singing Workshop at the Weybridge Congregational Church on Sunday afternoon, May 5, from 3:30  – 5 pm. All folks age 12 and up are welcome and you needn’t pre-register, but, if you know you are planning to come, please consider sending an RSVP email to Pastor Carynne Eskridge at weybridgechurch@gmail.com.  

The workshop is free, but contributions for possible future workshops will be collected.

To find out more about Patricia Norton and her Community Singing Workshops, please visit the Juneberry Music web-site.

Memorial Service and Celebration of Life for Dr. Charles Callahan  — Saturday, April 27  at  2:00 pm at the Cornwall Church.   The program will be heavy with organ music composed and arranged by Charlie.  Organist is Dr. Neal Campbell, a lifelong friend to Charlie, and the organist at Trinity Episcopal Church in Vero Beach, FL.  Dr. Campbell will play a variety of prelude music, beginning around 1:30. Service led by Rev. Mary Woodman, Rev. Jenei Rossigg (Proctor Union Church) and Rev. Sara Rossigg (Brandon UCC)

Spring All-Church Meeting – April 28

Come down after our service on the 28^th for a spring check-in of all the goings-on in our active little church.  Grab a cup of coffee and a snack and hear from Pastor Caryne, brief committee reports, and goals and plans for the spring and summer.  Let’s celebrate having made it through a strange winter and the solar eclipse and gather for a “compact” church family meeting.

Join the Vermont Poor People’s Campaign, along with 30+ other states across the country, in holding simultaneous days of action at our state houses, Saturday, March 2nd, 2024, to call on our state and federal governments to address the interlocking injustices of poverty, racism, the war economy, ecological devastation, the denial of access to healthcare, and the distorted moral narrative of christian nationalism.  In order to address any one of these issues, we must address them all, and we must be united in our collective call for justice.  We will meet at the Montpelier Transit Center at 10am, march a short distance to the steps of the Statehouse for a rally at 11am: the Mass Poor People’s and Low-wage Workers’ State House Assembly and To the Polls.