Our religious education class for children takes place at 10:00 a.m. following the Sunday morning devotional. We strive to provide an informative and fun Unitarian Universalist educational experience.
We spent last year studying the Unitarian Universalism curriculum, Around the Church, Around the Year, written by Jan Evans-Tiller. This is great material that takes us through why we go to church and what our holidays mean. The last handout is Sophia Lyon Fahs’ Each Night a Child Is Born Is a Holy Night.
For so the children come
And so they have been coming.
Always in the same way the come—
Born of the seed of man and woman.
No angels herald their beginnings
No prophets predict their future courses
No wise men see a star to show
where the babe is that will save humankind
Yet each night a child is born is a holy night.
Fathers and mothers—sitting beside their children’s cribs—
feel glory in the sight of a new life beginning.
They ask where and how will the new life end—will it never end
Each night a child is born is a holy night—a time for singing
A time for wondering, a time for worshipping.
~Sophia Lyon Fahs
What a wonderful sentiment! Each child is wonderful and special! And that is our goal as we work with your children-to make sure they know how special each child is.
As a congregation, we hope to pursue the Unitarian Universalist Association’s program to be identified as a green congregation. This summer we have been doing our part by raising our awareness of the earth and how to protect our environment. We have used two Unitarian Universalist curriculums, Honoring Our Mother Earth and Caring for Our Planet Earth, both written by Tirrell H. Kimball and printed by Green Timber Publications. To these we have added A Child’s Introduction to The Environment written by Michael Driscoll and Professor Dennis Driscoll.
This fall, our younger children will be studying from The UU Kids Book by Brotman-Marshfield with stories about many famous UU, what we believe, and how to best honor those beliefs. We are very excited about expanding our program to include a teen group. Unless our teens have other ideas, they will be studying Religion in Life written by Wayne B. Arnason and edited by Joseph Shea. The goal of this program is to help them learn about our faith-our beliefs, history, structure, and programs and to develop their own theology.
See you Sunday morning!
Ann Malpass, Worship Task Force