Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and LED battery-operated candle Bell or chime Preparation for Activity Have name tag materials out for all participants to create a name tag. Description of Activity Briefly introduce the idea of miracles and the miraculous. Tell the group...
Try to leave yourself five minutes before the class in which you are not worried or preoccupied—five minutes to center yourself and sink into the topic of miracles. Find a comfortable position. Take three deep breaths. Feel the details of your body—where it is touching the chair, how your feet...
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
Once you have chosen a leadership team, an age group, and a schedule for the program, sort out the program logistics and identify connections you can make with the wider congregation and community. Meeting space and other requirements While the Miracles program will work in any meeting space,...
The eight-week program invites you to creatively integrate Miracles into your congregation’s religious education and programmatic calendar in a variety of ways, such as: Offer Miracles in summer, when weekly attendance tends to dip. The sessions would provide a vibrant, interesting experience for...
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. — Walt Whitman Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. — Albert Einstein IN TODAY’S SESSION… we talked about miracles: what we...
Taking It Home
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May 13, 2015
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Families
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Miracles
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. — Walt Whitman Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. — Albert Einstein It is inherently Unitarian Universalist to explore the...
Miracles can be implemented in whole or in part, but we suggest you use the eight sessions in the order provided. The program’s flow takes participants from conversation about miracles to observation of miraculous moments, to a range of activities that engage them as agents of miraculous personal...
This eight-session program invites a prolonged encounter with awe and wonder. Stories from our UU Sources and hands-on activities engage a wide age span of participants to discern miracles, experience and express awe and wonder, and discover their own agency for miracle-making.
Curriculum
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Adrianne Ross, Chris Jablonski, Miriam Smith, Susan Lawrence
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April 28, 2015
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Multigenerational
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Miracles
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
Determine the schedule. Decide whether you will offer the program for ten consecutive weeks, once a month for ten consecutive months, or on another schedule. Set the dates and times. Take holidays and three-day weekends into account to ensure that most participants can attend all scheduled...
Each congregation has its own approach to structuring adult programs. Some congregations offer programs on Sunday mornings, gathering adults before the service, after the service, during a second service, or between two services....
All ten workshops in the Spirit in Practice program follow a similar structure. Between an opening and a closing ritual, participants engage in up to five activities. The opening includes a chalice lighting, and the closing includes an extinguishing of the chalice....
Unitarian Universalist Principles There are seven Principles which Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote: The inherent worth and dignity of every person; Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our...
March 5, 2015
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Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
March 5, 2015
| From
Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
March 5, 2015
| From
Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
Determine the calendar schedule for workshops. Enter the information in the congregational, district, or group calendar. Sample announcements are offered as Workshop 1, Leader Resource 1. Invite participants. Make an effort to personally invite individuals to participate. If appropriate, also use...
March 5, 2015
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Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults