Greetings CYM Families & Friends!
A family and fellowship filled Sunday is awaiting us all this Sunday! Come and join the UUSE tradition of an annual service devoted to holiday music! It’s a family favorite guaranteed to lift your spirits and your toes. After service, you are invited to a potluck lunch on the Garden Level!
Here’s what’s happening in Children & Youth Ministry on Sunday, December 15, 2024 @11 AM:
All Congregation Worship
All children and youth are invited to join their families in the Sanctuary for the entire worship service this Sunday. The nursery is open and available for children age 3 and younger.
Sunday Service: “Dona Nobis Pacem” - All congregational Holiday Music service.
Through music and song, story and homily, we celebrate the season and articulate our many-faceted prayer that peace may prevail. Join us!
Coordinators: Mary Bopp, Emmy Galbraith, Rev. Josh Pawelek
Nursery: Childcare is available in our Nursery on the Garden Level at 11 AM for children 3 and under. Care is provided by two regular childcare staff including our Nursery Coordinator Molly, our Nursery Assistant Lilly-Rose. Our nursery staff have grown up at UUSE, and are equipped with loads of experience, patience, and creativity to keep our youngest UUs safe and engaged. Families are always welcome to tour and stay in the nursery at any time.
High School Youth Group (Grades 9-12): HSYG Holiday Party! Please send your youth with a wrapped present (approx. $20 value) for a Yankee Gift Swap (financial support available, just reach out to Michelle.)
CYM Potluck Lunch @ 12:30PM (Garden Level) open to all! Folks without children in CYM are also welcome to attend! An excellent opportunity to share conversation across generations. This week we will host a discernment taskforce conversation over lunch. RSVPs preferred but not required for this engagement opportunity.
Junior Youth Group: Will meet after a quick bite at the CYM potluck lunch at 12:30PM. The Junior Youth Group will then meet from 1PM-3PM on the Garden Level.
Affirmation: UUSE’s ongoing intergenerational Affirmation class will meet from 1PM-2:30PM in the Sanctuary. Please review the previously distributed information in Josh’s email to prepare for the meeting.
End of Year Programming:
Sun 12/22: Regular CYM Programming Pre-K through 8th grade @ 11AM
Tues 12/24: Christmas Eve Service @ 7PM (Families welcome!)
Sun 12/29: One service @ 10AM to reflect on the year’s end (Families welcome!)
*NO CYM programming including NO nursery care available 12/29
Sun 1/5: Regular CYM Programming Pre-K through 12th grade @ 11AM
UUSE Happenings:
December Engagement Opportunities
to discuss UUSE’s relationship with the UUA
We invite YOU to participate!
We would like to encourage everyone to participate. All voices are important –including those of folks who don’t see themselves as having strong views on the issues and those who haven’t been involved thus far. When we all share our views and listen to the perspectives of others, we develop a richer understanding of who we are as a congregation.
Come share your perspectives on A2 and the UUA and deeply listen to the views of others so that we are able to find a way forward as a unified congregation. Thematic analysis of the notes capturing the major ideas shared in each session will be presented in a final report to the congregation recommending ways forward.
Three more Focus Groups
Focus Group (3-hour commitment) with an outside facilitator
Highly participatory structured whole group conversation (8-10 participants)
· Sunday, Dec. 15, 3-6 pm
· Monday, Dec 16, 1-4 pm
· Saturday, Dec. 21, 1-4 pm
One more Task Force Led Conversation
Dec. 15 at the CYM Potluck after the 11 am service
Folks without children in CYM are also welcome to attend! An excellent opportunity to share conversation across generations. RSVPs preferred but not required for this engagement opportunity.
If you need childcare for any of the above opportunities, please let us know when you sign up.
Please sign up as soon as possible -- with a preferred choice and a back-up choice
by emailing monica.vanbeusekom@gmail.com OR
by texting or calling Sid Soderholm at 301-789-8638 OR
by signing up in person after services on Sundays
And lastly, if you haven’t been to CYM yet this year, please join us this Sunday! Children in the Nursery through 12th grade need to be registered every year for the Children & Youth Ministry program, so please register here if you haven’t already. Thank you!
With Love and Gratitude,
Emmy Galbraith
Cell: (860)576-7889
CYM Committee Members:
Desiree Holian-Borgnis, Chair
Michelle Spadaccini
Paula Baker
Sudha Sevin
Committee email: uusecym@uuse.org
Angela Attardo, CYM Program Assistant
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