Category: Religious Education

Please join us on Sunday (3 August 2014) at 10:30 AM for “Gifts of the Elders” by Pamela Carlisle with Worship Associate Sarah Boswell.

Information is not wisdom and often — in this “information age” — we are in danger of losing the wisdom of those who may feel left out by current prevailing modes of communication.

Zentangles in the Religious Education Wing
Children and youth will attend the first 15 to 20 minutes of the worship service before we sing them out to their summer activities.

On this Sunday they’ll be trying their hands at an art form known as Zentangles with Alice and Neill Normand.

It can be as simple or as complex as they like, and it works for a variety of ages.  For the artists who are willing, we’ll display the finished products in the Social Hall.

If you have some empty cereal boxes or other thin cardboard boxes in your recycling bin (Ritz Cracker boxes would work great too), bring them, although we will try and have some on hand.

Please join us on Sunday (27 July 2014) at 10:30 AM Sunday Worship — “The Modern Mantra, Part II” by Ron Hagar

Ron Hagar presides over Part II of this participatory worship experience exploring the definition and purpose of a mantra and the idea of creating one’s own mantra.
This week, we will delve more deeply into the topic and feature congregational sharing of personal mantras as participants are willing and time allows.

Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service before we sing them out to their summer activities.  On this Sunday, they will be making their own variations on these two shirts:

They need to bring a black or dark-colored t-shirt for the project. We will have a few extras on hand, available for a donation if they need one, but as with tie-dye a few weeks ago, bringing their own guarantees the fit and style they’ll prefer.

Please joins us on Sunday (20 July 2014) for our 10:30 AM worship and religious education time.

“The Modern Mantra, Part I” by Ron Hagar — Ron Hagar is back and presiding over, not one but two worship services on this Sunday and the following Sunday (27 July 2014).

Part I of this participatory worship experience will explore the definition and purpose of a mantra and the idea of creating one’s own mantra.

Next week, Part II will delve more deeply into the topic and feature congregational sharing of personal mantras as participants are willing and time allows.

Community Building Games — In the Religious Education Wing, Steve Caldwell will lead the children and youth in some fun community-building games. The children and youth will join us in the sanctuary for the first 15-20 minutes and then we will sing them out to their activities.

Please join us on Sunday (13 July 2014) at 10:30 AM for our all-ages worship service — “Old Turtle and the Broken Truth”

“In a time when every stone is a teacher and every tree is a ladder to the stars, the people live in peace.”

Then the people discover a powerful truth that brings them strength and happiness, but they cannot see that their truth is broken and incomplete, and they suffer needlessly.  Can a child help Old Turtle to remind them of the Truth they have lost?

Join John Allen, Megan Bennett, Phil Boswell, and Sarah Allen for this dramatic presentation of the inspiring story by Douglas Wood featuring the beautiful watercolor illustrations of Jon J. Muth.

Please joins us on Sunday (29 June 2014) at 10:30 AM for “The Gentle Fierceness of a Hard-Won Wisdom” by Carol Graywing.

Carol knows from experience that the personal is political is spiritual. This morning, she shares insights from her forty-six years as a Unitarian Universalist activist; local, regional and national board member; worship, workshop, and ritual leader.

In the Religious Education Wing, the children and youth will have a yoga class with Robin Drury.

Please join us at 10:30 AM on Sunday (8 June 2014) for “I’m Feeling Vulnerable” by Rev. Jim VanderWeele (Community Church Unitarian Universalist of New Orleans).

In his sermon, Jim will step into the feeling of vulnerability that lives within many if not all of us.

He will use the first chapter of Jonah — the story of a prophet who lost his respect for being a prophet — to point out the difference between feelings and the facts of the matter.

Our children and youth will join the community for the first 15-20 minutes of the worship before leaving for their exciting activity:

Tie-Dye for Dads and Other Special Grown-up!
Each June (on the Sunday before Father’s Day), our children and youth have the opportunity to create one-of-a-kind wearable art for their Dads and others to wear to church on Father’s Day.

Children and youth are encouraged to wear their grubbies (clothing that can handle stains … and that applies to shoes, too) and to bring a 100% cotton t-shirt or other fabric item to dye (Prewashed is better for holding the dye but we do soak them ahead of time).

We will have bandanas and a few shirts on hand for donation, but bringing your own insures the right size and fit.

Please join us at 10:30 AM for “Love Is Our Doctrine, Service Is Our Prayer ” —  our 2014 Affirmation Sunday worship service.

Increasingly, Unitarian Universalists are realizing that the best question is not “What do you believe?” but rather “How does your faith inform and transform your life, and how do you walk that transformation out into the world?”

If you’ve wondered how it all works, with so many beliefs under this tent, come and learn something about that from some of the children, youth and adults of our congregation.

We’ll honor the transitions of our children and youth, thank our teachers, sing and celebrate, with a few fun surprises for all ages.

Please join us!