Dear Families and Congregants, Back-to-school season is a time for new beginnings at church, too. The summer months offered Ms Leah and me an opportunity to design a 2024-2025 calendar of experiences and activities for children to learn about themselves and others and the world we share. This will be our second year implementing the Soul Matters Religious Education curriculum. Last year’s Soul Matters framework, called “The Gifts of Our … Continue reading Invitation

Dear Families and Congregants, I am happy to report on recent successful endeavors in RE that UUFS folks will be able to participate in again this month. On a lovely Tuesday evening in June, Cora and Julianna Walker, their mom Clara, and myself, along with another local parent and his son, lent a hand in support of food security at Sunnyvale Community Services. SCS holds a monthly family volunteer night … Continue reading Heritage

Dear Families and Congregants, Freedom is our watchword at UUFS in July. Participants in the Sunday Morning Children’s Program will be at liberty to play outside with wet and messy substances banned during the colder months inside. That means bubbles and sprayers and sandcastles–hooray for summer! Free expression will play a role, too, as we open our time together each week with an improv game. Also in July, we will … Continue reading Freedom

Dear Families and Congregants, June’s theme is renewal. This is the season in Religious Education to appreciate the learning and development of children and youth during the past church year and to recommit ourselves to a sunny future of awakenings, realizations, understandings, and deepening spiritual awareness. Re-energized, children in the Sunday Morning program will explore their gratitude for parents, celebrate LGBTQ+ pride, and learn about solstice traditions, while youth will … Continue reading Summer Renewal

Pluralism is the next term expressing a Unitarian Universalist value to study this year. We’ll kick off the month’s theme with the simple but profound recognition that different people may see the same thing differently. Children in the Sunday morning program will compare what they each see in pictures that viewers tend to perceive in one of two ways. One common example of an optical illusion like this depicts two … Continue reading Pluralism