Goals (Creating Home)

Creating Home will:

Guide participants to identify the characteristics of a home and the functions a home serves
Help participants articulate and affirm the location and the members of their individual family homes
Provide opportunities for participants to observe homes in nature and investigate how different kinds of animal homes provide security and sustenance for their inhabitants
Build participants’ vocabulary of faith and religious language
Draw connections between participants’ family home experiences and the roles, responsibilities, and rewards of belonging to a “faith home”
Help develop participants’ sense of belonging in their Creating Home group and in the larger congregation
Introduce practices from Unitarian Universalist heritage – such as the spiritual rituals of hospitality, saying grace, lighting a chalice, and sharing stories – and invite participants and their families to consider using these on their own
Provide multiple opportunities for participants to practice artistic self-expression and have fun.

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Last updated on Friday, May 17, 2013.

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