This Year in Family Ministry
We have an exciting year planned!
CLICK HERE for the 2016-2017 overview of classes, youth groups, and support for volunteers and parents, as well as many important dates. We look forward to growing and learning with you this year!
Volunteer in RE
The RE Family Ministry Team is recruiting volunteers for next year. Contact Tracy Breneman (
[email protected]) or April Castoldi (
[email protected]) to volunteer for Children's RE (
click here for a description of our exciting new multi-age class), Coming of Age, Junior or Senior Youth Group, Class Assistant or RE Family Ministry Team. We are especially looking for people to help with the children's multiage Exploration Stations, which include arts and crafts, a reading corner, and role plays to practice using new language and skills. Your participation makes this important ministry possible. Thank you!
Friday Community Night
Begins September 16th
Community Nights are coming to FUSW! Twice a month on
Friday
evenings, our building will be hopping. We are hearing that you want opportunities to deepen relationships at FUSW and feel the vibrancy of our community so we are creating space for us to gather every other Friday night for informal fellowship, small group ministry and youth groups. Congregants of all ages are welcome and we hope that having multiple activities occurring simultaneously will make it easier for families to participate (e.g., while youth are in youth group, parents can attend a ministry group, team meeting or enjoy informal fellowship time).
The first Community night is Friday, September 16. The
Junior and Senior High Youth Groups meet at 7:00pm The Men's Group and Social Justice Team meet at 7:30pm. Community dinner is open to everyone and begins at 6:30pm. Bring your dinner and share in fellowship. .We look forward to deepening the ties of community with you!
Click here for the schedule. To schedule your group in a classroom on Friday night, contact Tracy Breneman (
[email protected]) or Margie Nugent (
[email protected]).
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Anti-Bias & Justice Workshop
You are invited a special workshop on Saturday, September 24th at FUSW. Rev. Dr. Hope Johnson and Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward will lead us in a day of learning and exploring anti-bias and justice work as it relates to our RE ministries. Our focus this year is Love and Justice. We are framing our work with Cornel West's quote, "Justice is what love looks like in public." The workshop is intended to help us create a common starting point, and support volunteers and families in important conversations you may be having about bias and oppression. We will develop a shared language and lens, explore identity and privile
ge, talk about what it means to participate in the work of justice making with children and youth, and affirm ways to support each other in our own learning. We invite RE volunteers, youth (especially youth!), parents and all FUSW congregants for this day of shared learning. Click here for a flyer. Click here to register. We hope you will join us!
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THIS SUNDAY
September 11, 10:30am
Ingathering
Family Worship
Bring water that represents your summer
Stay for the lunch potluck to celebrate our 160th anniversary
Childcare is available in
room 5 with Brenda Caronia
and Laurie Schneider.
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Contacts
Director of Religious Education, Tracy Breneman. Use e-mail if you can wait one or two days for a response. Tracy does not see e-mail Sunday mornings. For time-sensitive matters, call her home office, 914-402-4430.
RE Family Ministry Team Chair, April Castoldi
Youth Group Advisors,
Jen Rohr & Betsy Kates
First U Minister,
Rev. Peggy Clarke
& 914-478-2710
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