With the start of a new church year, it was great to welcome back families with our pre-worship Children's Chapel. This is an experiment for the fall, and it was great to have so many join us to try it out. We will meet using the "Children's Chapel" link on our main. home page (ucmvt.org).
Pre-worship Children's Chapel will be on 9/13, 9/20, 10/4, and 10/18. 9:15-9:45am
We'll add more dates if it seems like families are finding it meaningful and fun.
We'll do breakout rooms for smaller group sharing when we have a big crowd like we did on this kick-off day. We hope to have fun, engaging sessions, with help from some of our Lifespan Spiritual Exploration volunteers and special guests.
- Several of you had your Family Chalices with you, to light the candle during our chalice lighting! Hooray! "We light this chalice, in celebration of Unitarian Universalism. We are a church of open minds, loving hearts and helping hands."
- Follow-up: take time to decorate it with the tissue paper... here's a how-to video. It's pretty quick and fun to do together. We cut some words out of UU world to put on ours after it dried--things that show our values as a family, like "care" "give" "balance." Family Discussion: What 3-4 words can we find in these magazines, or write on a small slip of paper, that we all agree are important to us to add to the chalice?
- "Water connects us. Church connects us." All people around the world of, any age, we all depend on water. It's sacred and that's why it is part of our annual UU water ceremony, helping us celebrate our return to our church family after a summer apart.
- We renewed these connections with break out rooms to share Joys and Concerns using the gems from your care packages. Some of the younger kids needed help clicking to accept the breakout room so thanks to parents who were nearby to listen for that time! Follow-up: consider doing gems of Joys and Concerns at dinner time, bedtime, or some other point in your day or week as a ritual of connection.
- Next week follow-up: Each person--parents welcome too--is invited to bring something that shows how they give themselves Renewal, or a recharge. We'll do a show and tell and talk about what things renew us when we're feeling like wilted flowers in some way.
- Examples: good book, hula hoop for play/movement. I might bring a song book since singing helps me renew. And maybe we'll try some body balance challenges for fun.
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