NOODLING AROUND FOR JUSTICE PASTA DINNER FUNDRAISER! Saturday, January 28 at 6pm Everyone’s invited to join us for “Noodlin’ Around for Justice”, a dinner to raise funds for youth to attend Justice General Assembly in June 2012. Suggested donation for the dinner is $8 for an adult serving, $5 for a child serving and $25 for a family. Under 3 FREE! Everyone’s invited – bring your friends and enjoy a meal with your church community. Please let us know you’ll be there so we can prepare enough – with the number of adults and children you will be bringing.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pajama Bingo Night at First Unitarian Church of Wilmington Friday, February 25th 5:30pm – 7:30pm $5 a person* Enjoy pizza and drinks. It’s BYOB, so bring your friends and your favorite bottle of wine. Childcare will be provided for kids 4 yrs of age and under. Pajamas are encouraged but, not required. You could win big! We’re having a 50/50 Raffle. Plus the Grand Prize of One Ticket to the All Church Fall Retreat. call Alice Leonard at 302-981-9021 *All proceeds will be used to fund scholarships for the All-Church Retreat. THIS WEEK IN CYRE Nursery (newborn - 3 yrs.) Room 9 Join Morgan for a morning of play! Chalice Children (3 yrs. - 5 yrs.) Room 7 We hope you will join us at church this Sunday. We will be thinking about winter and wondering what the animals and birds do when it is cold and snowy. We will hear the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. Rainbow Walkers (5 yrs. - 7 yrs.) Room 10
Be ours a religion which, like sunshine, goes everywhere. — Theodore Parker, 19th-century Unitarian minister and abolitionist IN TODAY'S SESSION... children learned about the Unitarian Universalist Principle about being free to search for what is true and right. A play, "Many Paths to God," showed that many people have different beliefs that meet the same spiritual needs. We made a collage of our own personal symbols and played a game with our Unitarian Universalist symbol, the chalice. Children experienced that everyone is free to develop their own beliefs and that the differences each brings are celebrated. EXPLORE THE TOPIC TOGETHER. Ask your child to retell the story "Many Paths to God." Then invite family members to talk about their beliefs. Does everyone in the family have similar beliefs? Do adults in the family have beliefs that differ from the beliefs of their parents? EXTEND THE TOPIC TOGETHER. Children thought of symbols that represent who they are. Explore your home. What symbols are in your home? What do they represent? Do you have symbols from many different religions? Identify the religions that are represented in your home. A Family Adventure. Visit and worship in a denomination of friends or relatives. What symbols do you see? What do the symbols stand for? How do their beliefs seem to differ from yours? Their values? Family Discovery. As a family, choose another religion to study, perhaps one you are not familiar with at all. At a local library or in your congregational library, find age-appropriate books on the religion. A Family Game. Guess the Symbol: Ask each person to find a small object they think symbolizes them. Have everyone secretly bring their symbol to a central place. Then, re-gather and try to guess which family member has chosen each item as a symbol. A Family Ritual. Find a book of prayers or meditations from many different religions. Read a different one each night at the dinner table or at bedtime. Vary the religious traditions as much as possible. FIND OUT MORE Books for adults that represent a wide variety of religious beliefs in prose and poetry include The Enlightened Heart (New York: Harper & Row, 1989) and The Enlightened Mind (HarperCollins Publishers, 1991), both edited by Stephen Mitchell. Books with meditations and prayers are A Grateful Heart, edited by M.J. Ryan (Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1994) and Earth Prayers From Around the World, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991). A children's book on world religions is The Kids Book of World Religions by Jennifer Glossop (Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press, 2003). Seekers (7 yrs. - 9 yrs.) Room 30 This week we celebrate the intersection of awe and science with a star theme. We'll hear about Maria (Mar-eye-a) Mitchell, a UU Astronomer, and make a rocket. Questers (9 yrs. - 11 yrs.) Room 27 What motivates people? What about you, what makes you tick? We’re going to search for some answers about why people act the way they do. We’ll try to figure out why we ourselves act the way we do. And we’ll think about what makes outstanding UUs do the things they do. In between we’ll do an Energy Burner called Dynamic Questions. Jr. Youth Group (11 yrs. - 14 yrs.)) Room 29 We're going GREEN! Our next social action project involves working with the Green Sanctuary Team. This week we'll learn about and make some decisions about making and selling Green Cleaning Products. Then get ready for some fun! We'll play some games and get to know each other better! Youth Group (14 yrs. - 18 yrs.) Room 28 Get ready for a morning of fun! Rev. Kathie, Cindy and Matt have planned some great spiritual activities for today! Coming of Age February 5, 2012 in room 29. |