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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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    Youth Ministry Advising offers a full complement of tools and strategies for youth advisors and religious educators, ministers, and other adults who are committed to a dynamic vision of youth ministry.
    Item | By Lifespan Faith Engagement | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Young Adults, Youth Ministry, Youth/Teens
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  • A stream cuts through a verdant hillside. Text pasted over the image reads, "The Stream: UU Youth Leadership and, below that, "An Ecosystem for Liberatory Youth Community."
    ...I hope to offer dreams for a future of Youth Leadership that is slowly emerging. The upheaval of many systems in recent years brings possibility. We can both honor and value the contributions of the past while meeting our youth in this moment–their moment– to create something new.
    Leader Resource | By Ember Oak Kelley | April 18, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Youth Ministry
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  • A family with teenage children smiles together.
    “Lifespan Faith Engagement” means accompanying those who are coming of age in a dying and transforming world to be meaning-makers and agents of change. We are here to support religious professionals and lay leaders of all ages to do just that.
    Utility | April 10, 2025
    Tagged as: Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35), Youth Ministry
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  • A whiteboard with a bunch of pastel post-it with ideas around a quarter-sheet with "What should UU Institutions be doing to support BIPOC youth" written in purple Sharpie.
    A report on the 2024 Thrive with DRUUMM YaYA Convening to hear from the community about BIPOC UU youth and young adult ministry, including planning process and dreams for the future.
    Utility | By Nico Van Ostrand | March 17, 2025 | For Middle School, High School, Emerging Adults (18-24) | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: BIPOC Experiences, Faith Development, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Identity Formation, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Youth Ministry
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  • A wide shot of a pond surrounded by trees and shrubs, in a green season.
    Ember Kelley writes, "I’m a survivor of the youth leadership-to-seminary pipeline. In elementary school, I made a statement that would end up shaping the course of my entire life. When asked about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I dared to name “Pastor” ...
    Leader Resource | By Ember Oak Kelley | November 20, 2024 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Leadership, Youth Ministry
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  • White background with an orange flame in the middle with a white hand in front of it. Reads: Live a Life on Fire: Change the World with your Love. CERSI 2025
    Summer Institute 2025 is please to announce that our theme speaker this year is Rev. Joanna Fontaine Crawford.
    Feature | By Central East Region Summer Institute | October 28, 2024 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Family Programs, Youth Ministry
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  • More than a dozen UU youth create a tunnel/bridge by reaching forward and holding hands high so that bridging youth can travel through the created tunnel.
    These bridging resources provide faith development and ritual of transition for UU youth who are transitioning to the first stage of adulthood. One of many "rites of passage," bridging holds a special place in the heart of congregational life.
    Curriculum | By Eric Dew Bliss | October 23, 2024 | For High School, Emerging Adults (18-24), Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Youth Ministry
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  • A group of youth of color hang out!
    Subscribe to the newsletter, connect to BIPOC YEAs and programs across UUism and at General Assembly, consult with UUA staff.
    Utility | October 22, 2024 | For Middle School, High School, Emerging Adults (18-24)
    Tagged as: BIPOC Experiences, Faith Development, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Identity Formation, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Youth Ministry
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    Gentle darkness, soft and still, bring your quiet to me.
    By Shelley Jackson Denham | October 1, 2023 | From Life
    Tagged as: Adult Self Knowledge, Nature, Winter
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    "It was like we were all transported to a common place that was peaceful, happy, and alive. To me, that’s creating Beloved Community."
    By Staff Writer | April 26, 2023 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Community, Creativity, UU Beliefs, Youth Ministry
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