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Each lesson title reflects a message or guidance from our faith about being a person of :

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Our faith reminds us that deep listening to people is important, so much so that we’ve put it in the second of our UU sources: “Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion and the transforming power of love.”

But it’s not just prophetic people, it’s also wise people. And our faith tells us that some of the wisest people are older people, or as our faith calls them, Elders. They have many years of life experience.

Listening to their many journeys helps us navigate our own.

So what’s one of the ways our faith guides us into becoming a people of deep listening? It tells us to

“Listen to those who have come before! Listen to the Elders!”

Religious Education Virtual Classes K-12th

October Introductional Video for Parents

Parents, please watch this video for the month of October.

This month we’re exploring the many ways our UU faith invites us to become “A People of Deep Listening.” Deep listening brings us into the realm of compassion. Deep listening points out the importance of listening to your heart. Our sessions are centered around four listening lessons or invitations our faith makes. It invites and calls us

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K-5th Grade Lesson

We light a candle in remembrance of those who have died. For us UU’s, late October can be a time for remembering those who have passed on, recently and a long time ago. UUs are not the only ones that use this time of year to think about those who have died. For instance, Halloween was born from Samhain, an ancient Pagan holiday, when the boundary between the living and the dead grows thin. And the Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and Mexican communities in the United States to remember and honor ancestors who have died. Remembering those who have died is a way of listening to and letting their voices live on. It’s a way of saying “Their light never fully goes out.”

Remembrance Sharing Ritual Talking Points and Takeaways:

Let’s share and listen to some stories from each other.

Activity: Invite your children to find photos or memorabilia which reminds them of someone (or some being, a pet, for instance) who has died. One by one, each child shares their photo or memorabilia and a short description of who they are missing. Share what they meant to them or something that person or pet has done that will live on-explain that the wisdom and memories that outlive a person, or a pet, are their legacy.

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What is UN Sunday?

United Nations Sunday celebrates the work of the United Nations and your Unitarian Universalist Office at the United Nations (UU@UN). Each year we encourage congregations to have a service and/or event to celebrate! We create a collection of UN Sunday Resources (check them out below) which highlight our suggested theme and provide readings, an RE curriculum, planning timeline and checklist, order of service (including hymns), and more. Our UN Sunday theme is based on the April Intergenerational Spring Seminar topic. The 2020 theme is All In for Climate Justice: People, Power, Planet.

Additionally, we ask congregations to dedicate their UN Sunday offering to support the work of the UU Office at the United Nations. We depend on individual and congregational support to keep this work going.

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Friend Jeanay Johnson here. I am the Religious Education & Communications Coordinator at UUSP. This newsletter is put together by myself using family based resources from SoulMatters and many more.

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