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Writing Prompts for the Family

What is your favorite way to spend a lazy day?
Have you ever spoken up when you saw something going on that was wrong?
Write a diary/journal entry, dated 10 years in the future.

Religious Education Virtual Classes K-12th

This week’s focus is on what expands our perspectives. Click on the flyer above to be directed to the chat!

What we will discuss this Sunday is about our own unique understanding of the problem and solution. Put simply, we have tended to see “separation” as the problem and “re-connection” as the solution. What grabs our attention and breaks our hearts as UUs is seeing how the world separates or disconnects people from their deepest selves, life’s gifts and each other.

● And so UUs respond by helping people restore those three sacred connections.

● Another way to put this is to say we offer people three “lifelines” that help people reconnect to:

their deepest self (self)
life’s gifts and joy (life)
and needs greater than our own (others)

Key moments in UUA history

1992 - The General Assembly commits the UUA to becoming “racially and culturally diverse” and in 1997 votes to become an “anti-racist, multicultural association.” Anti-racism training is incorporated into governance, staff, and ministry training.

1995 - The UUA launches its website, UUA.org. The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists is formed as a representative body of UU groups that now includes more than twenty countries.

Healthy Resources

How to help students manage fear and anxiety about returning to school

Almost every student experiences nerves when they start a new school year. What happens if they can’t find their classroom? What if they don’t have any classes with their friends? What if the teacher doesn’t like them? These are all very real concerns during a standard school year – but this is not a standard school year. Parents are helping their children cope with new-year jitters while also assuring them that they are safe from coronavirus.

This year isn’t going to be easy for you or your child and you may have some difficult conversations ahead of you. Here is how you can help your child manage fear and anxiety about returning to school during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Free counseling is available for children, youth and families

in Pinellas and Manatee County.

Our counselors are available to help kids manage the transition back to school, as well as any other difficult situation children and families are facing. We offer in-office sessions for those who are comfortable meeting in-person, as well as virtual counseling sessions for those who would prefer to meet on-line.

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Please review this website for your local food locations for Pinellas County Schools. Schools are providing food pick ups until August 19th! This week is the last week until the system changes again. For more information about the updates of the schools, click the video.

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Friend Jeanay Johnson here. I am the Religious Education Coordinator & Communications Coordinator at UUSP. This newsletter is put together by myself using family based resources from SoulMatters and many more. If you have any submissions for the RE weekly newsletter, please submit your information to email me by noon every Tuesday to have it posted to the newsletter for Friday's e-print.