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REACH Spring 2000
CONTENTS
ADULT
CURRICULUM
LEADERSHIP
PARENTING
SOCIAL JUSTICE
TEACHING
WORSHIP
YOUTH
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Joan Caly, Gerri Farrell, & Eva Ceskava Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington, Long Island, NY We honor those who for fifty years have worked to make our religious education programs strong, relevant, and fun. We have been blessed. We honor those who have supported the free and responsible search for truth and meaning in our program, the fellowship, and in their lives. We have been blessed. We honor those who believed in the growth of the spirit and who encouraged others of all ages to find their own spiritual strength. We have been blessed. We honor those who have shown us that the divine is to be found in our relationships with each other no matter what our age. We have been blessed. We honor those who volunteered their talents and energy -- sacrificing vacation and sleep and even time with their own families for the benefit of the Religious Education Program. We have been blessed. We honor those who, on chaotic Sunday mornings when teachers called in sick, the nursery floor flooded, and the furnace refused to heat the classrooms, remained a non-anxious presence, our calm in the storm. We have been blessed. We honor those who nurtured the bonds of family that kept us returning to our religious home. We have been blessed. We honor those who got calluses on their fingers telephoning for volunteers, carpal tunnel syndrome typing Beacon articles, but who never tired of smiling, whose hearts only grew larger. We have been blessed. We honor the commitment of those early Religious Educators whose dedication and dreams brought us to today. We have been blessed. We honor our more recent Religious Educators who carry on our dreams for ourselves and our children, and who also dream new dreams. We have been blessed. Never doubt that a group of intelligent, thoughtful, energetic, and caring people can create a religious education program of substance and worth. Indeed they have. We have been greatly blessed. During this 50th LREDA year celebration, these words seem very appropriate. |
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