VirtUUal Faith Formation: September 10, 2021
What’s Happening in Faith Formation?
Ingathering/Water Communion this Sunday! We will be creating a rainstorm during the worship service. If you’d like to make a rain stick at home, here are some short videos to help you make a simple rain stick:
- Without using nails – https://youtu.be/giI9RfsA0uM
- Using nails or toothpicks – https://youtu.be/NQgwPSmWLzw
After worship, we will encircle the building with our collected waters and water the gardens and grounds. And for a little extra fun, we will have a water balloon toss! Feel free to come for any or all these activities as you feel comfortable.
Faith Formation Help this Fall – If you’d like to join in making this new format fun and engaging, look here for some of the ways you can do so! If you haven’t seen the video about our worship and faith formation format for this fall yet, check it out here. And if you missed Kathy’s recent article about this you can find it here.
Playscape Steppingstone Event – September 25 and October 2 – Families are invited to help make steppingstones. For more details and to register, click here.
Registration for Faith Formation begins! This year more than ever, it is important that parents register their young people, so that we can plan according to current guidelines. Please complete the form here for all young people, 0-18 years old.
College-bound youth and young adults! A network to connect with UUs wherever you are! Join Rev. Byron Tyler Coles & Rev. Stevie K Carmody Eama for an information session about the recently launched Bridging Youth Hospitality Network!
- Wednesday, August 18th, 5pm ET
- Thursday, September 2nd, 5pm ET
- Thursday, October 7th, 7pm ET
Check the links below for Zoom registration and more information. Spread the survey to recently bridged youth and the communities that want to welcome them!
UCE Book Groups
UCE Fiction Book Group is reading My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book 1, a graphic novel by Emil Ferris. Discussion meeting September 17, 7-8:30 pm via Zoom.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazine iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
The Nonfiction Book Group will meet via Zoom at 2 pm on Sunday, September 26th to discuss How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America.
The author, Heather Cox Richardson, writes about how the South was the ideological victor of the Civil War as expansion of the Western frontier allowed the hierarchies of the South to proliferate. The book has been called “a thought-provoking study of the centuries-spanning battle between oligarchy and equality in America.”
Forum Resumes Sunday, September 19 during Faith Formation Hour
The first Forum session for the 2021-22 church year is titled “What is meant by Defund the Police?” Our speakers will be Daniel Biss, mayor of Evanston, and a representative from Defund CPD. Each speaker will present their ideas on the subject, then we will open up the floor for questions. Members can attend in person or virtually. This will be an exchange of ideas, not a debate. Among the topics we will explore are the role of police and whose safety is protected.