This Week in RE, 5/13

[Pam Howell]

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trip meeting

newbury court craft

Pam Howell

Director of Religious Education

First Parish in Concord

20 Lexington Road

Concord, MA  01742

978-369-9602  

[Pam Howell]

Upcoming RE Events:

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.

 

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.

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

This week, we will be 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 Grade Youth Group - Social Action:  Organic Gardening for Social Justice

Our 6th graders made so much progress last week!  This week, they will be planting POTATOES!   Planting and harvesting potatoes is like magic: you hide one in the ground and come back in the fall to find many.  The fishes and the loaves?  Maybe!

Please wear gardening gloves, bring a rake and a big shovel (leave outside on the front porch of the Meeting House at 5 minutes past the hour (9:05 or 11:05)) and dress appropriately for the weather.

7th Grade - Neighboring Faiths 

No meeting this week, but next week (May 20th) they will sit together to watch their UU peers in the Coming of Age service at 11am

8th Grade - OWL

Next week (May 20th) they will sit together to watch their UU peers in the Coming of Age service at 11am

9th Grade Coming of Age - 

Our 9th Graders will are working on their credos.....!

Sunday Night Youth Group: The Heard - 

No meeting this week because of Mother's Day.  Next week is the big TriCon Ultimate Frisbee Championship!

Pam Howell