Children and youth will attend the worship service for the first 15-20 minutes and then are dismissed to their classes.
We are now discussing peace, social justice, and the interdependent web and these ideas connect to our Unitarian Universalist faith.
Elementary class with Ash McLain and Kevin Henry will designing a friendship banner that will later be used in the sanctuary.
Middle and High School Class with Noah Wagstaff and Dawn Subasic will continue their exploration of Allport’s Ladder of Prejudice — a timeline created by Gordon Allport using the timeline of the Holocaust to show how name calling leads to economic and legislative attacks that lead to physical attacks that can ultimately lead to genocide). What are the patterns we see in the present day and how are we called to stand in integrity with our UU principles and values?
For this week’s class, the middle and high school youth will will watch the second half of the film Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War — a documentary about the refugee work of the Rev. Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha in the Lisbon office of the Unitarian Service Committee before and during World War II.
