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You can join our in person worship service live at 9:30 on Sundays. Your face will not be visible in the Sanctuary, but you will be able to hear and see most of what is going on. Please keep yourself muted and feel free to sing along! You can also dial in from your phone to hear the service.

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News From the Parish Nurse

We have received some COVID-19 tests! If you are in need of one, please call the church and we will be sure to make it available to you!

Weekly updates of current hospitalizations and detailed case data have been archived.

We are seeing another significant message from the Vermont Department of Health that we are moving forward from the COVID-19 pandemic. With the archiving of published COVID-19 data and limited accessibility to the archives. Scheduled to end May 18th. What will continue to be reported from the VDH will be the percentage of COVID-19 boosters received by Vermonters. This is welcome news for many who are moving forward with there lives and are no longer tuning into these statistics. 

Guidance can still be found on the VDH website about what to do if you or a family member develops COVID-19. 

Vermont Conference

The Vermont Conference will be having its Annual Meeting April 28-29 at Grace Church in Rutland. The keynote speaker is Bill McKibbon. Anyone interested in going as a delegate, either in person or virtually, should email Pastor Leigh. Delegate expenses will be covered. More information here: AM23 (vtcucc.org)

Card Shower for Norma!

Norma Wark, a long-time member of our church, will be turning 97 on April 9th. Her family has asked for a card shower to mark her special day. There will be cards in the back of the Sanctuary on which to write a greeting, or you can send a card to the church at PO Box 1320 and we will forward it to Norma for the big day. Let's bless Norma with our best wishes!

Easter Flowers



Easter is April 9th, and the Worship and Arts Committee is hoping that this special time in the life of the church will be commemorated with Spring bulbs, cut flowers, lily plants and remembrances. If you would like to purchase a plant in honor or memory of a loved one, please complete the form at this link or fill out a paper form in the sanctuary.

Church Directory Revised and Updated

This Is Us!

The Administration Ministry invites you to participate in updating our Church Directory that we’d like to have available for distribution by our next annual meeting in May. Please select and send a digital (or non-digital) photo of you or of your family along with the name/s and current contact information you want included to the church at bccuccoffice@gmail.com or PO Box 1320 Barre, VT. You are also invited to include a short quotation (just 1–2 sentences) that has been a source of hope or inspiration. If you choose to add a quotation (which is optional), please add the source, if you know it. We also invite each of our six ministries as well as the Fellowship Group and the Church Historian to send one photo to illustrate how you would like your ministry represented in the directory. We ask that you please send just one photo. Heads up as we plan to take a group congregational photo following the Easter Sunday service on April 9th, so wear your ”glad rags” as Pastor Leigh calls them! The plan is to produce a digital directory, with optional hard copies available (donations will be welcome!). Thanks to everyone for helping us update our directory.

Community Vigil against Gun Violence

Monday, April 3^rd at 6 p.m.

Hosted by First Presbyterian Church of Barre (the Green Church)

19 Seminary Street; Barre, VT 05641

So many of us grieve the senseless mass shootings that take place in our country,

and we invite you to come and share your grief, frustration, and resolve with others. This community-wide event is open to people of all faith backgrounds

as well as those with no faith background. It is an opportunity for us to put aside our differences and put on our common humanity.

We will read the names and light candles

in honor of those shooting victims in the Nashville, TN school shooting.

We will invite you to speak from your heart, mind, and soul about how these shootings affect us, and how we might support one another in the face of needless tragedies.

We will offer words of encouragement, inspiration, and resolve to action, inviting you to consider 19 ways to take action on reducing gun violence in our country.

And we will sing together to strengthen and restore our spirits to keep working for commonsense laws until something is done to value human lives over unrestricted ownership of guns designed to kill humans.

Amy's Armoire

You may have noticed Amy's Armoire at 114 North Main Street here in Barre. However, you may not know the woman behind the enterprise: Amy Anderson, a woman of boundless compassion and energy who has thrown her time, energy, money and soul into a most amazing and needed mission: "to improve the outcomes for Vermont foster/adopted children and youth." After working in Corrections and seeing some of the stress and trauma of foster children played out in their teen and young adult years, she decided to change course and make a difference in such children when they're younger. The proceeds from Amy's Armoire, a used clothing store, "work to fill in the gaps that foster, adoptive and kin families experience in an overstretched and underfunded system". Almost--if not all--of the people who work at Amy's Armoire are volunteers and--as the store gets busier and more stocked-- Amy is desperate for more. Here are the needs at present:

At the store itself:

--coverage on occasional Tuesdays, 2-6

--coverage on Wednesdays 5-6

--coverage on Thursdays 3:30-6

Amy would be happy with even 2-hour shifts and will gladly train you in the workings of the store. Note also, this does not have to be every week.

At the donation center on So. Main (where Tatreau's used to be):

--teams of 3-4 people on Saturdays from 10-2 to help sort donations. They would be assisting their lead sorter who knows the specifics of this activity. Word has it that this is fun! Ideally the church could come up with a team to work a Saturday every 4-6 weeks. The idea is that each team would have a coordinator who can sign their group up for certain Saturdays and free Amy from having to call/ message/ hunt up workers. The system could run itself.

Susan Mcknight has gathered a team of about 4-5 volunteers to work at the donation center on the first Saturday of the month. She reached out to me about helping and I thought this would be a good project for Missions and Outreach. I did go to help on a Saturday and could not believe how organized this process is and it is obvious that a team of volunteers each Saturday will make this so much easier for Amy and her crew. We are hoping to line up another group of volunteers for another Saturday every 4-6 weeks, possibly the 3rd Saturday of the month.  You would not have to commit to all four hours each time, crews of 2 hours each would work. If you would be interested in volunteering for this please reach out to me, Darlene Clark at dkclark@charter.net or call me at 802-272-2332 or approach me after worship on Sunday. By the way this was fun!

Darlene Clark on behalf of the Missions and Outreach Ministry

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