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  • Prayer for a Drop in the Bucket: Blessed are the droplets, for they shall fill the bucket to overflowing. Blessed are they who know there is a bucket, for they shall be filled with hope. Blessed are they who can see beyond their lifetimes, for they shall walk in faith that their work will not be...
    Utility | October 9, 2024 | From The Mosaic
    Tagged as: Anti-Racism, Faith Development, Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
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  • “To be free, you must embrace / the breadth of your own existence / without apology, even if they try to take / it from you. / You must know, not that you / can do whatever you want; you are not / a kudzu vine, eating entire hillsides for / the purpose of feeding your own lush life...
    Utility | October 9, 2024 | From The Mosaic
    Tagged as: Anti-Racism, Faith Development, Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
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  • Light chalice and listen together: “We Can Do Hard Things” by Tish Melton; Death by a Thousand Cuts by Derald Wing Sue; Centering and Why It Matters…
    Utility | October 9, 2024 | From The Mosaic
    Tagged as: Anti-Racism, Faith Development, Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
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  • Opening words: “Woodland You” by Jarod K. Anderson; Note: The question this session will explore is, “What would it take to co-create an explicitly anti-racist Unitarian Universalism?”
    Utility | October 9, 2024 | From The Mosaic
    Tagged as: Anti-Racism, Faith Development, Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
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  • Having Been the Other: “May what we know of suffering, redemption and salvation bring us to Love. Having been the other, may our hearts exclude no one. Having been the slave, may we long to be no one’s master.” —Rev. Natalie Fenimore
    Utility | October 9, 2024 | From The Mosaic
    Tagged as: Anti-Racism, Faith Development, Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
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  • Come Into This Place By Margaret Weis; Check In Question: What is one thing that makes a space feel safe to you? How frequently is that something you think about?
    Utility | October 9, 2024 | From The Mosaic
    Tagged as: Anti-Racism, Faith Development, Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
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  • Standing tall on the far right edge of the map, the red and white Covenant Lighthouse beams with a bright, guiding light. It’s the trusty beacon that helps everyone navigate through stormy seas and stay true to their principles.
    Works well: with members who connect with imagery. Draw the outline of a body on the paper. Inside the the body participants add images and drawings that represent belonging. Outside the body they add images representing exclusion.
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Standing tall on the far right edge of the map, the red and white Covenant Lighthouse beams with a bright, guiding light. It’s the trusty beacon that helps everyone navigate through stormy seas and stay true to their principles.
    Works well: when using From Many to One or the Ideation Activity. Optional: share a list of needs (search "universal needs") and gifts (search "talents and skills for community") for members to choose from. Framework: Our covenants are our promises to each other. One of the things that makes...
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Standing tall on the far right edge of the map, the red and white Covenant Lighthouse beams with a bright, guiding light. It’s the trusty beacon that helps everyone navigate through stormy seas and stay true to their principles.
    Works best for: A group where some people are dominant speakers and others’ voices go unheard, a larger group, a group that has difficulty coming to agreement. Each person writes down a few key points they would like included, the group elects delegates to synthesize.
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Standing tall on the far right edge of the map, the red and white Covenant Lighthouse beams with a bright, guiding light. It’s the trusty beacon that helps everyone navigate through stormy seas and stay true to their principles.
    Works best for: with members who've built a covenant before, a group of less than 8 people, when you have time for discussion. Start with a blank page and whatever is in the minds of participants. The group goes through four stages of ideating.
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Standing tall on the far right edge of the map, the red and white Covenant Lighthouse beams with a bright, guiding light. It’s the trusty beacon that helps everyone navigate through stormy seas and stay true to their principles.
    Works best for: a group that's never covenanted before and needs a lot of guidance or a group with a very short amount of time to build a covenant. Add, change and rearrange is the name of the game. The facilitators of the group provide a starting point for the covenanting process.
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Dramatic cliffs towering above the crashing waves. The Cliffs of Exclusivity suggest the danger and challenges of exclusivity.
    Parameters: more than 5 people, an open space. 2 players hold hands or connectors to form the amoeba. The amoeba approaches other players and absorbs them by taking their hand/connector. The game ends when all players have been absorbed. There are lots of variations.
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Dramatic cliffs towering above the crashing waves. The Cliffs of Exclusivity suggest the danger and challenges of exclusivity.
    Parameters: 1 or more people in person or online. Reflective prompts inviting participants to remember moments when they truly mattered. Through writing, doodling, or daydreaming, they explore what it feels like to be needed, valued, and woven into a sense of belonging.
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Dramatic cliffs towering above the crashing waves. The Cliffs of Exclusivity suggest the danger and challenges of exclusivity.
    Print and post the Coffee Hour Caution flyer in the space you gather after worship! Advice for greeting young adults at church.
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Dramatic cliffs towering above the crashing waves. The Cliffs of Exclusivity suggest the danger and challenges of exclusivity.
    Parameters: 1 or more people, in person or online. Access to decision-makers to support changes. How accessible/inclusive is the path to the meeting space?
    October 1, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • two female appearing humans holding hand made candles
    While all churches often struggle with summer attendance and engagement, small congregations often find this to be a particular challenge. Here is an innovative way that two small congregations outside of Toledo, OH found to engage their members over the summer.
    Congregational Story | By Central East Region of the UUA | September 23, 2024 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Family Programs, Multigenerational Faith Development
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  • The Canyons of Deeper Sharing are twisty, turny, red rock canyons are depicted with deep, winding paths filled with sparkling water, symbolizing deep and meaningful sharing.
    Takeaways may include: naming preferences and opinions, learning about opposing preferences and opinions from others, exploring differences. Parameters: more than two people, in person or virtually. Review the covenant....
    September 20, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Stretching River meanders from the Healing Springs, stretching out across the map. It’s a wild waterway that connects every corner of the land. This represents a continuous flow of growth and exploration.
    Parameters: more than 2 people, in person and/or virtually. Plan an event together! You group could plan an hour long experience, a half day, an overnighter or a weekend experience. Consider how to make it inclusive, safe, accessible, sustainable and equitable.
    September 19, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Stretching River meanders from the Healing Springs, stretching out across the map. It’s a wild waterway that connects every corner of the land. This represents a continuous flow of growth and exploration.
    Parameters: more than two people, in person. Access to a kitchen and cooking equipment. Depending on the capacity and skill level of your group, decide which tasks you as facilitator will hold and which the group will hold. In the end consider, why is food important in community?
    September 19, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Stretching River meanders from the Healing Springs, stretching out across the map. It’s a wild waterway that connects every corner of the land. This represents a continuous flow of growth and exploration.
    Parameters: more than 2 people in person. It's possible to do a ropes course with a group of wide ranging abilities and bodies. This is a list of questions to ask before designing or booking an experience.
    September 19, 2024 | From Deeper Joy
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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