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This Week in Religious Education

What is happening for children, youth, and families at OUUC

This Week inReligious EducationWhat is happening for children, youth, and familiesat OUUC

Happy Mother's Day

This Sunday is Mother's Day, a day with connections to our Unitarian history through Julia Ward Howe and her call for mother's to use their voices to call for peace and an end to war. Join us this Sunday to explore that and more.

Supply Drive for Our Spring Service Project

The kids started working on their service project last Sunday, and now they need your help! We're doing a supply drive for two different aspects of our project, and we need:


  • sandwich size zip lock bags
  • Individually wrapped non-perishable snacks, such as:
  • granola bars
  • crackers
  • cookies
  • sparkling waters
  • 1st Aid supplies such as:
  • band aids
  • disinfectant
  • blister and foot care items
  • chapstick
  • sunblock
  • Oral Hygiene items such as:
  • toothbrushes
  • tooth paste
  • dental floss


Look for our collection bins in the Commons and the RE Entry Hallway!

This Sunday, April 28th, 2019

9:15


  • Nursery Care
  • Spirit Play for All Ages: A story for Mother's Day


11:00


  • Nursery Care
  • Spirit Play for PreK: A story for Mother's Day
  • Labyrinth Learning for 1st-5th grades: Day Three of the Spring Service Project, with guest speaker Dr. Samantha Ritchie
  • No middle school group


12:15

  • The last potluck lunch of this church year - all welcome!


12:30

  • No youth group meeting

12:45

  • Adult Soul Matters Meeting

Sunday and Every Day: Taking It Home

We continued the spring service project last Sunday, and learned about Florence Nightingale.


Discuss it at home:


1. What is "medicine" anyway? How do we take good care of people in our society, and how are we failing to take care of one another?

2. Our 1st Unitarian Universalist Principle is 'The Inherent Worth and Dignity of All People". How does that Principle relate to the topic of medicine and health care?



Faith in Action:


Gather up some supplies for the children's supply drive! They will be building little 1st Aid and Oral Hygiene Kits, and also are collecting snacks to donate to the Olympia Free Clinic to help feed hungry volunteers there.

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Chalice Camp Registration is Open Now

Chalice Camp is our week long day camp, for ages 5-10. It's a fun week of friendship, songs, crafts, and learning about earth care and social justice. Registration is now open!


https://www.ouuc.org/education/chalice-camp/

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Summer Religious Education Volunteers Needed

The children have chosen the "Maker Space" program for the summer, so each Sunday from June to September we need volunteer "Guest Makers" to demonstrate a hobby, skill, or craft. Do you knit? Make Robots? Upcycle plastic bags into useful items? Please share your skills and enthusiasms with the kids! Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0e4ba4a82da31-summer2
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Applications Now Accepted for OWL Facilitators

Our Whole Lives (known affectionately as "OWL") is our sexuality education program, designed jointly by the UUA and the United Churches.


If you are interested in becoming a trained OWL facilitator, applications are now being accepted. Contact Sara at dre@ouuc.org to apply.


We are particularly in need of facilitators for the elementary grades, but all applications are welcome.

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Save the Date: Middle School Conference

Rising 6th-8th graders, save the date for the annual Puget Sound Unitarian Universalist Middle School Conference: September 27-29


You can learn more about Middle School CON here

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Please Give Us Your Feedback!

Please help us reflect and evaluate on our children and youth programs. Respondents will be entered to Win a Prize!


Fill out the (short) form here: https://www.ouuc.org/education/children-and-youth/2019-children-and-youth-program-evaluation/

Not registered yet for this year's RE programs? It only takes a couple minutes!

If you have not already done so, please take some time this week to complete the registration form for the new program year.


Children's Registration


Youth Registration

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Yours in Faith,

Sara Lewis, credentialed religious educator, master level

Director of Lifespan Religious Education


Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10am-2pm

Available by appointment: Saturday through Thursday

Sabbath Day (when I will not check email or respond to calls): Friday


olydre@gmail.com or dre@ouuc.org

360-786-6383 x. 102