This Week in RE, 5/20 COMING OF AGE!!!!

[Pam Howell]

Upcoming RE Events:

Want to know more about our Coming of Age Program?

This Sunday, at 10:15 - 10:45 in the Chapel, we will have a short presentation on our Coming of Age program here at First Parish.  Please come and find out more about this great bridging experience First Parish offers to our youth.  If you are considering becoming a mentor, this would be an informative meeting for you as well.

 

Two Youth Travel Opportunities Next Year!

Our UU Roots:

We are planning a Parent/Teen Pilgrimage to our partner church in Transylvania in July of 2013.  This trip is for Middle School and High School youth WITH their parent.  This will be a unique opportunity for Intergenerational Family Travel to our Unitarian roots.

Our UU Wings:

We are planning a Youth Service Trip to El Salvador in April of 2013.  This trip is for High School Youth and Chaperones.  

Interested in learning more?  Please come to an informational meeting on Sunday, May 20th at 5:30 pm.

Auction Item:  Intergenerational Monadnock Hike on June 2nd

All Day.

Please join Pam, her husband Mark and a few other kids and adults on a climb of Mt. Monadnock.  We will leave Concord around 9am, climb to the top of the Mountain and eat a bag lunch, then climb down and have a simple cook-out.  We have room for about 6 more people.  Cost? $25 a person. Best for a hardy 5 year-old and up.  No special climbing equipment needed.  Let me know if you want to join us.

YOU ARE INVITED!  INTERGENERATIONAL ART ACTIVITY 

June 5th from 4 to 5:30pm

Please join Pam, Jenny and a group of children and adults from First Parish as we travel to Newbury Court to join residents and friends there for an intergenerational art activity.  We will use scissors, paper, glue and have some good old-fashioned fun as we decorate the bags for the Caring Connection.  The Caring Connection uses these bags when they take food to parishioners who are ill or whose families are having a difficult time.  Don't miss it!  This is a chance to do something good for others while having fun getting to know each other better as well.

Youth Community Service

Looking for Community Service hours?  The First Parish Garden is perfect for teens.  Send me an email if you want to learn more about this opportunity for teens.

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This coming Sunday:

Regular Program for 0-1st Graders

2nd - 5th Spring Term, Week 3:  Earth Centered Practices, Honoring our Earth

Last week was a huge success and this week we will continue celebrating May Day by making Fairies, Creatures of the Wood, and Fairy Habitats.  We will be keeping wonder alive in this ancient art of engaging with the natural world.  Feel free to bring habitat supplies and acorn hats.....

6th (9am AND 11am), 7th (11AM) , 8th (11AM) Graders

Please come and support our 9th Graders.  We are reserving a pew for each grade level at these services.  Come for both services if you can.  Sit with your friends and hear the credos of the kids you will be seeing in Youth Group and who are going on the Service Trips next year. Remember, YOU will be doing YOUR credo before you know it.

9th Grade Coming of Age - 

This is the BIG Sunday.  Don't miss our Coming of Age service and welcoming our 9th Graders as young adults in our congregation.

Sunday Night Youth Group: The Heard - 

This is the big TriCon Ultimate Frisbee Championship!  Be there.  6:30pm.