VirtUUal RE: Dec 23 & 30
What’s Happening in Lifespan Religious Education?
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it! We head into the end of 2020 (yay!) with one last week on our theme of Stillness. This week in the Soulful Home packet we focus on the segments At the Bedside and Blessing. Check out this week’s video for a short synopsis.
Pre/K Kids and Families – POP (Parents of Preschoolers) – Decembers’s materials are available here. The password is YouGotThis2020 (case sensitive.) This UU-based program is to be used all month long. Do whatever fits your family’s schedule.
High School Youth – we will not meet this Sunday but will reconvene on January 3. Look for an email with more details.
In January, we will begin exploring our new theme, Imagination. Look for your Soul Kit after the first of the year!
REvisioning our Multigenerational Religious Education Program
In case you missed this in recent newsletters and emails, Rev. Eileen, Rev. Karen, and Kathy Underwood invite you to explore our purpose and mission for the religious education program as we look towards a post-pandemic future at UCE. At our previous gathering last February, we stated our hopes and ideas, which included:
- Being a multigenerational community with more diversity, energy, and vibrancy
- Connecting people within peer groups as well as across the ages
- Nourishing parents to feel grounded in our UU values so they can be the spiritual guide for their child(ren)
- Speaking to the deep hunger of people of all ages
At our next gathering, we want to delve deeper and express our hopes into future goals that say exactly what it is we want our children and youth to have as they grow older. We will also consider our Ends Statement: We foster intellectual excitement, lifelong learning, truth seeking, and respect for our traditions of reason and faith. Does it still resonate with us and fit our vision? We are aware of how over stretched you are. We know that time is precious, and we want to respect yours. We hope that you feel motivated by love for this congregation and the religious education program at UCE rather than by onerous obligation. We are hopeful that, together, we can discover our collective passions, values, and investments as well as the obstacles that get in the way of living into them.
Please join us for ONE of the following virtual gatherings by registering here.
January 9 – 10-11:30 am
January 16 – 1-2:30 pm
January 17 – 2-3:30 pm
We look forward to seeing you there!