Following the service this Sunday (June 14th) we will be planting the rest of the vegetable plants in our Stone Soup garden. While the adults will be hard at work in the budget meeting, the children and youth will be getting their hands dirty!
I am excited to announce that the Flint Journal has asked if they may come and take pictures of our garden and our enthusiastic gardeners during this work party as well!
If you or your child are interested in participating, please contact Amy Derrick and plan to bring a trowel so that we can ensure that there are enough tools to go around.
Thanks and see you on Sunday!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Teacher Celebration and Flower Communion
This Sunday, we will be honoring our Lifespan Learning volunteers as we celebrate our annual Flower Communion service. This service also marks the end of our program year until September.
If you or your child would like to participate in this Sunday's service, please plan to arrive at 9:30 AM to rehearse! We will need people to help with readings and to help present flowers.
If you volunteered to help in our lifespan learning program this year, please attend this Sunday so that we may thank and honor you for your participation in this important part of our ministry!
See you on Sunday!
If you or your child would like to participate in this Sunday's service, please plan to arrive at 9:30 AM to rehearse! We will need people to help with readings and to help present flowers.
If you volunteered to help in our lifespan learning program this year, please attend this Sunday so that we may thank and honor you for your participation in this important part of our ministry!
See you on Sunday!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Congrats, Coming of Age youth!
June 7th was a very special day as we celebrated the accomplishments of our youth who completed our 2009 Coming of Age program. The youth, along with their mentors and two facilitators, met every Sunday evening from January to June and examined so many issues; from life and death, to ethics, to ideas about God.
Our youth, ranging in age from 12 to 18, have all written their statements of faith and presented them from the pulpit during the Sunday service.
This Rite of Passage is celebrated in many UU churches and is a great example of why so many people have found a home in our faith; we have reached out to our youth at an age where they have begun to ask some serious questions about life and their purposes. We understand that, as Socrates said, "wisdom begins in wonder," and that the ability to question and to challenge ought to be celebrated rather than fought.
We also understand that there are always more questions to be asked and more wisdom to be gained. I hope that our youth have inspired us each to contiunue along our own spiritual journeys.
Thank you to everyone who made this program possible; it was truely a volunteer effort! We cannot do this without the talents of all of our members!
Our youth, ranging in age from 12 to 18, have all written their statements of faith and presented them from the pulpit during the Sunday service.
This Rite of Passage is celebrated in many UU churches and is a great example of why so many people have found a home in our faith; we have reached out to our youth at an age where they have begun to ask some serious questions about life and their purposes. We understand that, as Socrates said, "wisdom begins in wonder," and that the ability to question and to challenge ought to be celebrated rather than fought.
We also understand that there are always more questions to be asked and more wisdom to be gained. I hope that our youth have inspired us each to contiunue along our own spiritual journeys.
Thank you to everyone who made this program possible; it was truely a volunteer effort! We cannot do this without the talents of all of our members!
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