Family Ministry News

This Sunday is the Water Service: Wear Blue!

Next Sunday is Sing along Sunday! Bring an instrument

Save the Dates: Friction Farm Concert, Mabon Potluck, etc

Learning Resources: For Parents and RE Teachers

Photo Highlights: Sunday morning fun!

Key Aspects of the Water Communion:

• Individual Significance:Each person brings water from a place or event that holds personal meaning, such as a vacation spot, their home, or even the rain from their yard.

• Symbolic Merging:The waters are combined into a single, large bowl or vase, symbolizing how individual lives and experiences come together to form the larger community.

• Shared Journey:The ritual reflects themes of reunion, re-gathering, hope, and the refreshing nature of community and solidarity with all life.

• Congregational Connection:It serves as a way to reconnect after a period of separation, like the summer, and to welcome everyone back to the life of the congregation.

• Intergenerational and Interconnected:The service is often intergenerational, bringing people of all ages together. The combined water can also be used for other ceremonies or returned to the earth.

Parents and Caregivers are invited to participate in the first council meeting of the year. Join us for lunch while your kids enjoy time playing with their friends! Free childcare is available from 12-2PM.

Next Sunday, September 14th, families are invited to sing-along with musicians from Friction Farms during the service story time.

Then we will go downstairs to the Fellowship Hall to learn spiritual songs. Parents who play instruments are invited to participate!

We 💗 our FM volunteers, and need your musical talents!

9/13 - Friction Farms Concert 6:30-9:30PM

9/14 - Sing-along Sunday at UUFH

9/21 - Mabon Mandalas at 10:30, Potluck at 12

9/28 - Nechema Water Clean-up & Yom Kippur

10/5 - Feast of St. Francis & Pet Blessing

10/12 - Samhain Lesson

10/19 - Trick or Treating at UUFH & FM Halloween Party

10/26 - Retreat at the Mountain

Attending consistently is also a wonderful way to ground yourself, grow spiritually, and be in community with others who share your values and principles.

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Kids do best when they know what to expect, and when it comes to attendance, consistency is key.

Attending UUFH on a regular basis is a great routine for your family and an excellent way to instill the UU values you cherish into the minds and hearts of your children.

Love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values. The values we share include all the following, which we hold as inseparable and deeply interconnected:

• Interdependence: We honor the interdependent web of all existence and acknowledge our place in it.
• Pluralism: We are all sacred beings, diverse in culture, experience, and theology.
• Justice: We work to be diverse multicultural Beloved Communities where all feel welcome and can thrive.
• Transformation: We adapt to the changing world.
• Generosity: We cultivate a spirit of gratitude and hope.
• Equity: We declare that every person is inherently worthy and has the right to flourish with dignity, love, and compassion.

Our youngest Unitarian Universalist children learn these rainbow principles:

1. RED – Respect each person.
2. ORANGE – Offer fairness and kindness to all.
3. YELLOW – Yearn to learn together.
4. GREEN – Grow by searching for what is true.
5. BLUE – Believe in yourself and your ideas.
6. INDIGO – Insist on a peaceful, fair, and free world.
7. VIOLET – Value our planet Earth.

Kiddos select their "Helper Role Cards" before Chalice Circle and a Lesson about Buddha.

Intergenerational Fun in the Nursery!

Twins play and listen to a "Big Kid Friend" read-aloud for them.

Kids play together while grown-ups enjoy coffee hour and socialize after the service.