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APRIL
MINISTRY THEME: JOY AND SORROW
The capacity for joy is dependent on one’s capacity for sorrow.
Joy as an act of resistance.
April 3: Good Friday “Vespers for Peace” Service- 6 p.m.
Worship Leader: Rev. Verdis LeVar Robinson
Liturgist: Peggy Flood
Let us gather together for a Vespers for Peace service with quiet reflection through music, prayers, and readings. The service will begin with calm and candlelight for peace and connection, and it will end in hope and joy. Bring your sorrows, bring your griefs as well as your joys, and lay them on the altar of our beloved community. The service will feature songs and readings of hope, grief, and resistance.
April 5: Easter Service:“From the Rising of the Sons”
Worship Leader: Rev. Verdis LeVar Robinson
Liturgist: Peggy Flood
April 4th is the 58th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. As we begin a new worship theme of “Joy and Sorrow” for the month of April, we will honor the roles Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Alberta Williams King played in their sons’ risings and in their everlasting legacies. A mix of joys and sorrows with a touch of light and hope. Join us for this timely Easter service.
April 12: Social Justice Sunday: “Your Invitation to the Party: Joy, Justice, and the Work of Love”
Worship Leader: Rev. Verdis LeVar Robinson
Guest Preacher: Rev. Sierra-Marie Gerfao
A growing and vibrant Unitarian Universalist movement for justice is taking shape across our state, and you are invited! Come celebrate the joy of togetherness, claim the courage of collective action, and consider the possibilities for building a new future in a time when democracy is under attack.
Rev. Sierra-Marie Gerfao of New Haven is the newly appointed part-time Executive Director of the Connecticut Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry and serves as Director of Family Ministries at the UU Congregation of Danbury. She is passionate about building communities of belonging and flourishing.
April 19: “Owning Our Religious Pasts”
Worship Leaders: Rev. Verdis and Perry Montrose
In an Adult Faith Formation offering by Rev. Verdis and Perry over the past five months, Souls have journeyed together to reclaim their religious past. Join us as they share reflections on the growth in their faith, moving from a space of discomfort and awkwardness to a space of affirmation and wholeness with the joys and sorrows that come with journey.
Good Neighbor Offering: Selective Mutism
Food to the People: canned soup
April 26: Earth Day Service- Multi-generational
Worship Leader: Perry Montrose and Karen Ethier-Waring
Liturgist: Pam Gray