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  • A whole mini carrot cake centered on a small white plate, all sitting on a black countertop with white speckles. The cake has nuts around the outside, white icing on top, and a marzipan carrot embedded in the icing.
    We don’t try to be the perfect thing for everyone, all the time, because that’s impossible. Instead, we try to be who we are: Unitarian Universalists, who put love at the center of all we do.
    Time for All Ages | By Christian Schmidt | December 3, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Balance, Caring, Diversity, Hospitality, Identity, Living Our Faith, Playfulness, Relationships, Worship
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  • A wooden tabletop holds objects from the Deeper Joy RPG. At the bottom left is a colorful illustrated map labeled “Community Building Map to Deeper Joy,” showing locations like Healing Springs, Stretching River, Forest of Affirmation, and Covenant Lighthouse. Two white six-sided dice lie near the center. On the right, an open book titled “Lorekeeper’s Notes” shows a drawing of a whimsical airship. Golden sparkles float above the scene, adding a magical feel. In the top left is a character sheet
    Engage your UU community with an RPG that blends imaginative roleplaying with reflection and community-building for all ages. Embark on journeys in the world of Covenantia, and explore what it means to live out our UU values.
    Curriculum, Game | By Ember Oak Kelley | November 19, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Community, Covenant, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Leadership, Living Our Faith, Playfulness
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person or online. You'll need materials for making care packages and artwork, envelope and stamp money. Choose someone outside the gathering who could use extra love and send them a care package.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person. Participants contribute to shared purpose, express gratitude, and honor community bonds by contributing a meaningful medium, such as sand, to a shared container at the beginning of the event then taking some from the shared container at the end of the event.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: Any number, in person. You'll need warm water and individual containers; option to include soap and lotion. Participants practice self-care, expressing tenderness, and experiencing humility by washing their own or another's feet.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: any number, in person or online. Participants build confidence by receiving affirmation and widening self-understanding as others share what they notice about them or offering a blessing for them.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: 6+, in person or online. Receive appreciation, share kindness, and strengthen connections as participants rotate around concentric circles sharing meaningful compliments with one another.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The Forest of Affirmation is brimming with positivity. The trees whisper words of encouragement, and the air is filled with a sweet scent. The abundant trees indicate a place rich in support and affirmation.
    Parameters: 4+, in person or online. If group is large, divide into smaller groups. Participants celebrate each other after coming up with a cheer together.
    Game | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: any number, in person or online. Paper and writing utensils needed for the variation. Explore identity and begin sharing personal stories as participants say their name and a way to remember their name or something special about it.
    Game | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: 3+, in person or online. Paper, writing utensils or skribbl.io needed. There are speaking, art and writing versions of this game. Participants build a story together one sentence or picture at a time.
    Game | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: any number, in person or online. Appreciate beauty and collaborate on meaning making as participants find objects to add to a tableau and create a story about it.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • The blue, sheltered Bonding Harbor is where boats are anchored, symbolizing a place of safety, connection, and community bonding. It’s a snug spot for bonding with fellow adventurers and sharing tales of the high seas.
    Parameters: 4+, in person. Practice listening, choose when to lead or follow, and coordinate as a group as participants add layers of sound to a group rhythm.
    Activity | November 13, 2025 | For Youth, Adults, Multigenerational | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: Adult Faith Development, Community, Joy, Multigenerational Faith Development, Playfulness, Youth Ministry
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  • A shaggy, black, medium-sized dog wearing a purple harness sits alertly on the grass, with its face turned away from the camera. A leash from the harness is in a white person's hand; we see only their sleeve and a portion of their leg.
    Choice by choice, we make an effort to live out what we say we want, and who we claim to be.
    Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | February 5, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Animals, Faith, Integrity, Interdependence, Living Our Faith, Playfulness, Relationships, Religion, Worship
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  • A small box made out of wooden slats sits on a grassy lawn, with a light brown teddy bear beside it. The box has a black stenciled sign on it labeled “TOOLS,” and various tools — a hammer, pliers, snippers, a jar of nails, and others — are visible between the slats and over the edge of the box.
    An activity to help congregants of all ages remember the tools available to help get through difficult times.
    Time for All Ages | By Tara Humphries | December 10, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Creativity, Healing, Imagination, Interdependence, Mental Health, Playfulness, Resilience, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, Worship
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  • In a darkened room, a chalice glows on a desk, with six crayons arranged around it like the rays of the sun. The light from the chalice illuminates several objects on the desk, including a small framed “children’s version” of the seven principles, a polished spherical crystal, a LEGO figurine of a person in a jumpsuit, a flat white-and-silver dove ornament, several books, and a jar with stalks of dried lavender.
    Meet me in the heartbeat between what has been and what will be; meet me in the flicker of our eternal flame. We need not face this moment alone.
    Prayer | By Helen “HP” Rivers | December 3, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Change, Children, Community, Hope, Journey, Joy, Playfulness, Sorrow, Worship
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  • A group of half a dozen women, apparently part of a larger congregation, standing and singing in church. The three women in primary focus are clapping or snapping fingers.
    This liturgy provides words for a portion of a service devoted to hymn-singing. It should be possible to combine this with many of the usual elements of a congregation’s worship service. You will need to have an accompanist who can sight-read well, and it would be helpful to have a songleader.
    Script | By Kristin Grassel Schmidt | September 22, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Arts & Music, Community, Creativity, Music Sunday, Playfulness, Worship
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  • Close up of person resting their chin on their hands and looking off into the distance to our left. The scene is lit in black light, which makes glitter makeup on the person’s head and neck fluoresce in yellows and reds.
    This glitter that we share with each other today is a reminder that each of us is beautiful in our sacred imperfection, our ever-changing selves, our glorious plurality.
    Ritual | By Hannah Roberts Villnave, Kayla Parker, Caitlin Cotter Coillberg | May 23, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Gender, Identity, Inclusion, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Love, Playfulness, Pride Sunday, Respect, Sexuality, Wholeness, Worship
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  • Close-up image of several blades of grass coated in small ice crystals. The sun is visible between the blades, and the crystals create a small rainbow.
    Let us open all our senses and let our synapses spark one connection after another.
    Welcome | By Shari Woodbury | December 12, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Birth, Child Dedication, Children, Connections, Joy, Playfulness, Wonder, Worship
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  • A close up of a good dog's black nose, asking you to please boop his snoot.
    Carl the golden retriever learns about the limitations of the Golden Rule.
    Story | By Tiffany Fae Anderson | October 10, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Animals, Caring, Imagination, Playfulness, Relationships, Worship
    Worship element
  • From the back, a Black woman wearing a hat and a small Black child are seated in a church pew.
    God, Your creation is not yet done creating you.
    Opening | By Gretchen Haley | July 24, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: God, Goddess, Imagination, Immanence, Playfulness
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