Month: April 2017

30 April 2017 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (30 April 2017) at 11:00 AM as we join in the combined work of 635-plus Unitarian Universalist congregations across the North America.

We are devoting worship and religious education time to taking an honest look at the ways we as a faith tradition have been complicit in the very system of institutional racism that we have claimed to stand against.

Come and be a part of the #uuwhitesupremacyteachin.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

Our children and youth will be continue exploring the anti-racism themes that our adults explored in their 9:15 AM class today.

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Adult Religious Education — 30 April 2017

Please join us on Sunday (2 April 2017) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — #UUWhiteSupremacyTeachIn.

This morning will be an exploration of a turning point in the racial history of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

We are a faith tradition whose ministers and laypersons rushed to Selma to march with Dr. King.

We are also a faith tradition that has tread awkwardly and sometimes stumbled over the issue of race within our own community.

We take some time this morning to explore a part of that complex history.

Children and youth religious education classes will be exploring anti-racism work through an age-appropriate lens during our 11:00 AM classes for them.

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16 April 2017 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Easter Sunday (16 April 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Tomb to Womb — The Resurrection Shuffle.”

Our Easter service celebrates the possibility of resurrection in all of us.  The service will feature music from the All Souls Choir as well as a communion ritual that is grounded in community and inclusive of all without regard to theology or belief.

An Easter Egg Hunt for Nursery through 5th grade children will take place immediately following the service.

Our Middle School and High School youth will hide the eggs and receive an appropriate “hider’s fee” for their efforts.  Our young hunters are likely to be visited by a very special holiday guest as well.

If you have filled plastic eggs to drop off at the church, please drop them off no later than Saturday (15 April 2017).

You can leave them in a plastic bag by the office door, set them on the wall, or hang them on the door handle — they’ll be fine.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

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No Adult Religious Education Class — 16 April 2017

We will not have our weekly adult religious education class on Sunday (16 April 2017) — our adult class will resume next Sunday (23 April 2017) at 9:15 AM.

Next Sunday, we will continue our study and discussion of Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks PhD.

Class “homework” — last week, we asked the class to take a good look at the ten temptations to violate dignity, and think about the ones to which they are the most susceptible, and something they might do to try to interrupt and ultimately extinguish that response.

You can find a copy of the ten essential elements of dignity and the ten temptations here.  We look forward to this discussion next Sunday (23 April 2017).

This book is available in print and electronic formats.

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