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Each lesson title reflects a message or guidance from our faith about being a person of renewal:

This week, we are going into:

Week 3: Let Wonder Wash Over You

(Our UU First Source)

Next week is our RE service.

Week 4: Repair and Renew Your Relationships

(Yom Kippur)

Week 5: Love Who You Are

(Our UU First Principle - Inherent Worth)

Be sure to check out our service this Sunday right before Sunday school!

WELCOME

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Theme Angle for this week:

Our faith reminds us that wonder is a central source of renewal, so much so that we’ve put it in the first of our UU sources:

“Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life.”

So what’s one of the ways our faith guides us into becoming a people of renewal?

It tells us to “Let wonder wash over you!”

Religious Education Virtual Classes K-12th

Parents, please watch this video for the month of September.

Every month, our curriculum is set to a theme. This month, our theme is Renewal. Take a moment to watch this 2 minute video to learn more about our RE. Tune in on Sunday at 11 for Sunday School.

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All of us wonder about things. When we wonder we renew our sense of the world as a place full of surprises and that makes us feel grateful and lucky to be alive, just as our first UU source suggests. Stars make us wonder. Looking at stars puts things in perspective. Did you know there is a special wish you can make “on a star?” When you see the first star of the night, you can make a wish! That is one way our wonder can renew us.

Tune in Sundays at 11 a.m. for Sunday School!

Family Take-Home

Schedule a Night of Family Stargazing Experience some wonder as a family by using dinner time to talk about and learn about some star constellations. Then head outside when the sun goes down and find those constellations in the sky. Consider using one of the cool stargazing apps out there to assist you! A Guide to Family Stargazing

15 Best Stargazing Apps

Make a Star Jar! Bring some wonder of the sky inside your house by doing one of these awesome family crafts:

DIY Nebula Jar

Night Light STAR JAR

Calendar Connections

Parents!

Explore these calendars connections from national and cultural experiences. Click on the hyperlinks to gain insight while expanding your families perspective of what the world considers important.

For a print out/download, click the link below.

Have fun!

Calendar Connections

Autumn, also known as fall in North American English,^[1] is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice (December 21).

Rosh Hashanah starts today. It is said to commemorate the creation of the world and marks the beginning of the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of introspection and repentance that culminates in the Yom Kippur holiday, also known as the Day of Atonement.

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the two “High Holy Days” in the Jewish religion.

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Friend Jeanay Johnson here. I am the Religious Education & 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.