Religious Education News Unitarian Universalist Church of Canton
RE Mission Our religious education program works to create an accepting environment that empowers children and youth to explore their spirituality, celebrate diversity, and live our Unitarian Universalist values.
Family Ministry
We believe that families play a vital role in furthering this empowerment to explore and live our UU values. We are excited to support our families by offering ideas from the UUA's Tapestry of Faith program as well as graces and thought provoking questions related to the topics introduced during Sunday religious education classes. We hope you find this new initiative enjoyable and spiritually fulfilling for your whole family.
In RE Next Week
Our children and youth will be participating in a fun day. Weather permitting we will go outside. If not, we will have Memorial Day inspired crafts, games and more.
RE Committee
Wil Rivers, Chair
Todd Moe, Council Liaison
David Bradford Arthur Freeheart Sally Hoose Esther Katz Rhonda Rodriguez Anna Sorensen Jenn Whittaker
For the Week of May 21, 2017
A Table Grace:
Loving spirit be our guest.
Dine with us, share our bread
That our table might be blessed
And our souls be fed.
-By the Rev. Gary Kowalski, sung to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
A Chalice Lighting:
"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can't strike them all by ourselves; we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle would be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.
For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul."
~ from Laura Esquivel's novel "Like Water For Chocolate"
This Sunday our children and youth participated in our White Supremacy Teach-In during worship.
Family Discussion - During a shared meal, discuss what actions you can take to minimize white supremacy in your home and neighborhood.
Family Support - Click here to download a copy of Teaching Tolerance's "Beyond the Golden Rule - A parent's guide to preventing and responding to prejudice" Webinar Series - Click here to view the Getting to the Root - White Supremacy Webinar Series from Church of the Larger Fellowship.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Carol Zimmerman at
dre@uucantonny.org or 315-386-2498.
