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Religious Education at Restoration

Children's Religious Education Program

Welcome to our new Religious Education Coordinator, Katie Lerner!

Classes are held from 11 am - noon. Many Sundays, the children participate in the first part of the regular church service before moving to their classrooms.

Shown at right: Children rehearsing for a song at Christmastime.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. - Paul Tillich

We began RE school year with the question, "Where do we come from?" Some of our own answers included: our mothers, Philadelphia, the Big Bang, meiosis, apes, God and Star Island. Where do you come from?

Now we've begun filming our inquisitive news show WCUU (Wisdom of the Community is Unitarian Universalists) and asking typical UU's what they feel are the answers to life's big questions. And we'll be discovering our answers to the question, "What are we?"

Sometime in November we will be having a Saturday adventure to a local farm for a Harvest Day including a social action project of helping to clean up the orchard's fallen apples. We will take the apples and make them into applesauce to be donated to a local organization. Stay tuned for more information.

We need yoUU! We need your help for the best RE program we can have. Would you like to teach RE? Would you be available volunteer in the nursery? Can you contribute snack for our kids on Sunday? Are you able to help with creative activities? Do you have your own story to share with our children? If any of these apply to you please contact me at religioused@uurestoration.us

    All Souls Day Celebration

Pictured are some of our children (and adults) who came to our All Souls Service in costume

    Bridging Ceremony for Our Graduating Youth: 2010

Adult Religious Education

• Listening to Our Lives: The Rev. Kathy Ellis will lead this nine-session adult spiritual development group. Participants will grow in spirit and fellowship throught focusing on questions about Inspiration, God, Community, Suffering & Death, Spiritual Practice and Living our Gifts.

  Daytime group meets on Thursdays, 1 - 3 pm for nine weeks beginning on October 6, 2011.

  Evening group meets on Thursdays, 7 - 9 pm for nine weeks beginning on October 6, 2011.

• Soul Collage Spiritual Retreat: The Rev. Ellis is a trained facilitator for this creative, visual spiritual practice. Come to a fun and meaningful day of learning about ourselves, our spiritual journeys and about other all through imagery. Saturday, October 15: 9:30 am - 4 pm in Fellowship Hall.

• Golden Rule Now: We are challenged to put the Golden Rule as a conscious touchstone in our daily lives and to embed this moral principle into our political process. Led by Pat E. and Mark P. Mondays 7 - 9 pm: October 17, 24, 31 and November 14, 21 & 28.