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Welcoming Children with Special Needs: A Guidebook for Faith Communities by Sally Patton (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2004) provides a thoughtful perspective and specific approaches for inclusion in religious education. Ideas pertain to multiple special needs and are applicable to...December 10, 2011 | From Gather the Spirit -
Gather the Spirit includes eight 60-minute workshops. They may be used in order or independently. Within the workshops, it is suggested that you use the core activities in the suggested sequence; however, most activities can be used out of sequence. Gather the Spirit is very flexible....December 10, 2011 | From Gather the Spirit
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Unitarian Universalist Principles and Sources 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 growt...December 10, 2011 | From Gather the Spirit
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Gather the Spirit is highly flexible and rich in possibilities. So make choices: Do not try to do everything. Then plan and prepare, plan and prepare, then plan some more. Make use of the ideas offered below under Before You Start. Plan tight, so you can present loose....December 10, 2011 | From Gather the Spirit
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The options for scheduling Gather the Spirit are many. It can be used on Sunday mornings as a multigenerational program sandwiched between larger segments of the congregation's religious education year....December 10, 2011 | From Gather the Spirit
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Establish a registration system for Gather the Spirit with your director of religious education. You will need to know how many participants to expect at your first workshop, their ages, their allergies and their special needs. Publicize the program in congregational newsletters, website, worship...December 10, 2011 | From Gather the Spirit
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Date Name Address City, State, Zip Dear [participant’s first name], Welcome to our From the High Hill group workshop, and congratulations! You will participate in an exciting and introspective process that will inform and support you as you rediscover your life and write your Odyssey. You will be...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill -
Prelude Have musicians play a medley from the songs that will be sung. Welcome and Announcements Lighting the Chalice Have the group say in unison Reading 683 in Singing the Living Tradition, "Be Ours a Religion" by Theodore Parker....December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Evaluations help us know how to do it better next time—what worked and what didn’t work well, and why. And, they provide feedback about our success as a facilitator. Here are three methods for evaluating your program: Create a numerical assessment. Ask participants to rank, by specified numbers,...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Working alone or with one other person can be an interesting and effective way to engage with the High Hill program. Collaborating with another person, particularly if you live in an area that does not have a Unitarian Universalist congregation, can be a wider and more affirming experience than...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Here are some things to consider if your group—whether for convenience or to minimize expenses—chooses to meet locally, and stay in their own homes: Do we want to meet in a home, in people’s living rooms? Do we have a living space among us that is large enough to accommodate us all, with...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Become closer to my sister. Learn Spanish. Plan one last trip to Kentucky. Write one great poem. Talk to my Uncle Vern. Hold an historical gathering with my family, and travel to where each of us was born. Expand my photography. I want a great body. Get back to painting. Research my father’s...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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“The Layers”. Copyright (C) 1978 by Stanley Kunitz, from THE COLLECTED POEMS by Stanley Kunitz. Used by permission of W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. Stanley Kunitz was a 20th/21st- century American poet, named American Poet Laureate in 2000. I have walked through many lives, Some of them my own,...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Date Name Address City, state, zip Dear [use first name], Congratulations! And welcome to our High Hill group!...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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[Insert the name, address, email address, and phone number of the sponsoring organization or individual, e.g., your congregation's letterhead.] Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. — PEANUTS, a comic strip YES! I want to come! Please register me for the From the High Hill program. Enclosed you...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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I like the quote from Mary Oliver's poem, "The Summer Day:" Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life? I'm not afraid to ask that question and not vague about my answer....December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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(My mom and dad) met at Edison High School in Minneapolis. I think their lockers were near one another. After high school, Dad joined Roosevelt's CCC, cut timber and built roads in northern Minnesota, and joined the Marine Corps in 1939. He wrote......December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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On a cold sunny day the year 1944, a child was pulled into the world by an intoxicated Dr. Sweet in the town of Ritzville in the state of Washington... the first ten years were spent living on a farm seven-and-one-half miles from town. The house was old, but mom made it comfortable and it was...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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I was born into a beautiful old house, four stories if you counted the full basement and attic, which I did. There were beveled glass French doors at the entrance to the living area, a playroom/music room, a dining room, huge kitchen, three large bedrooms upstairs, a walk-through coat closet, and...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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As I contemplate the 51 years that have elapsed since my arrival on that presumably cool 24th day of November in 1946, I'm reminded that we all have our story and perhaps the telling of this story will remind me of who I am. A glance at my ancestry, at least as much of it as I'm aware of will...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill