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    Materials for Activity Name tags, durable or single use Bold markers Paper and pen/pencil for sign-up sheet Small table Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Place name tags and markers on table. Optional: Arrange for child care during the workshop. Description of Activity If guests are...
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Consider how you came to join the congregation. What factors influenced your decision? What has it meant to you since? How has your spiritual journey been shaped by your congregational membership? How has your life been changed? Has membership met your expectations? How has it fallen short? Share...
    December 9, 2011 | From The New UU
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    Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 2 Activity 1: Sentence Starters 10 Activity 2: A New Small Group 20 Activity 3: Rights and Responsibilities of Membership 15 Activity 4: Review of the Parking Lot 15 Activity 5: Joining the Congregation 10 Activity 6: Hopes 15 Closing 3 Alternate...
    December 9, 2011 | From The New UU
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    There is nothing in all the world so important as to be loyal to this faith which has placed before us the loftiest ideals, which has comforted us in sorrow, strengthened us for noble duty and made the world beautiful. — Olympia Brown, 19th-century Universalist minister This culminating workshop...
    December 9, 2011 | From The New UU
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    Talk with lay leadership and the minister to discover the answers to these questions. This discovery process will give you a starting point for understanding the structure of your congregation and making it transparent for newcomers....
    Leader Resource | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    The idea of congregational self-governance developed on this continent because the Puritans who arrived from Europe wanted to have responsibility for their own churches, not to have bishops dictate their practices....
    Leader Resource | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    A covenant is not a contract, but rather a voluntary relationship. The idea of a covenant has biblical origins and traditionally includes the understanding that the relationship is sacred or blessed....
    Handout | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Acceptance, Business Meetings, Community, Connections, Covenant, Democracy, Discernment, Diversity, Faith, Freedom, Governance, Immigration, Unitarianism
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    From Our Covenant: The 2000-01 Minns Lectures, The Lay and Liberal Doctrine of the Church: The Spirit and the Promise of Our Covenant, by Alice Blair Wesley (Chicago: Meadville-Lombard Press, 2002). Used with permission.Religiously, Unitarians are directly descended from the Puritans and Pilgrims...
    Story | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 2, Our Congregation's Structure Organizational chart or summary for your congregation Preparation for Activity Complete Leader Resource 2, Our Congregation's Structure, with help from appropriate leaders in the congregation. Make...
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Covenant as Promise Newsprint, markers, and tape Pens or pencils Optional: Your congregation's covenant Optional: Copies of Singing the Living Tradition for all participants Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 1, Covenant as Promise, f...
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Activity time: 15 minutes Preparation for Activity Invite the president, or a past president, of the congregation to address the group for no more than ten minutes. Meet with the leader a few weeks in advance to discuss their presentation....
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Story, "The Founding of the Dedham Church" Preparation for Activity Print out the story "The Founding of the Dedham Church" and copy for all participants. Practice reading the story aloud. Find out how your congregation was founded. If there is a...
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Post blank newsprint. Description of Activity Introduce the activity by providing a bridge from the Opening with these or similar words: Our opening reading spoke about a free church....
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Governance for Unitarian Universalist Congregations is a handbook which has information about both the history and practice of governance. Go… and Ministry: Rethinking Board Leadership, by Dan Hotchkiss (Alban Institute, 2009) and All Are Chosen: Stories of Lay Ministry and Leadership, Margaret L.
    December 9, 2011 | From The New UU
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    Review with your co-facilitator(s) how each activity went. What worked well? What might you do differently another time? Review the Parking Lot questions. Have you answered all the questions? What remains?...
    December 9, 2011 | From The New UU
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    Activity time: 3 minutes Materials for Activity Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, or copies of Singing the Journey (supplement to the hymnbook), for all participants Optional: Keyboard or other musical accompaniment Preparation for Activity Determine whether you will sing one of the hymns o...
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Activity time: 2 minutes Materials for Activity Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook, for all participants Chalice, candle, and lighter, or an LED battery-operated candle Appropriate stand or small table for the chalice Cloth or decorative covering for chali...
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Materials for Activity Name tags, durable or single use Bold markers Paper and pen/pencil for sign-up sheet Small table Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity If you have not done so already, create a sign-up sheet with columns for name, address, phone, and email information and place it...
    Activity | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
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    Consider your own history of participating in congregational governance. What roles have you held? How have you felt about your participation? How has your participation shaped your relationship with your congregation? With other members? Has it shaped or influenced your theological understanding?
    December 9, 2011 | From The New UU
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    Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 2 Activity 1: What a Free Church Means to Me 10 Activity 2: The Founding of the Dedham Church 25 Activity 3: Covenants Within and Beyond Our Congregation 35 Activity 4: Learning from Leadership 15 Closing 3 Alternate Activity 1: Covenant as Promis...
    December 9, 2011 | From The New UU