Religious Education News
Unitarian Universalist Church of Canton
RE Mission

Our religious education program works to create an accepting environment that empowers children and youth to explore their spirituality, celebrate diversity, and live our Unitarian Universalist values.
 
Family Ministry

We believe that families play a vital role in furthering this empowerment to explore and live our UU values. We are excited to support our families by offering ideas from the UUA's Tapestry of Faith program as well as graces and thought provoking questions related to the topics introduced during Sunday religious education classes. We hope you find this new initiative enjoyable and spiritually fulfilling for your whole family.

In RE Next Week
Our children and youth will play a matching game, hear a story about promises, consider conscience and it's effect for goodness and justice, observe pollinators at work, continue OWL and go canoeing.
RE Committee   
Wil Rivers, Chair 
Todd Moe, Council Liaison 
Jeff Frank
Arthur Freeheart
Esther Katz
Anna Sorensen
Jenn Whittaker
For the Week of September 24, 2017
A Table Grace:
We dedicate this meal to our hopes and dreams for the future.
We dream of a world not threatened by destruction.
We dream of a world in which all people are free to be themselves.
We dream of a world at peace.
~ Jewish Tradition--Adapted from an Haggadah of Liberation
Chalice Lighting:
May the light we now kindle
Inspire us to use our powers
To heal and not to harm,
To help and not to hinder,
To bless and not to curse,
To uphold the Spirit of Freedom!
~ Peter Teets 
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Please consider utilizing these ideas to deepen and inspire your faith during the week.

Family Discussion -  Talk briefly about the Unitarian Universalist seventh Principle, "respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part." Share your thoughts and beliefs.
A Family Ritual - Gratitude circle. Gather around a chalice or candle. Light the chalice or candle, and have each family member light another candle from it. Take turns naming things that humans receive from nature using the phrase, "I am grateful for ( )." End the gratitude circle by saying together, "In this web of life, we are all one," and blowing out the candles.
Welcome to 2017-18 RE
 
We would like to welcome our new and returning families.  Please click here to learn more about important details for each of our classes, to register your child(ren) for class and to see who is part of our religious education ministry team.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Carol Zimmerman at [email protected] or 315-386-2498.