Hello
Friends and Families of Westside!
Check out
the great events we have coming up (below)! And for our middle school youth,
this is an important Sunday to be in class. No lesson this week, but great
planning for our spring activities. See below for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. YOUTH-LED
SERVICE: March 3rd,
the WSUU youth will be leading a rich and expressive service. Be sure to attend
– you won’t want to miss this!
2. CHILDREN’S CHOIR: Please contact Lisa (l.maynard@comcast.net) or Liz (liz.bucklew@becu.org) to be sure your child participates in a musical adventure this
spring!
3. CRAFTS
AND COFFEE: Join us on Friday
mornings in the church library (3rd floor) from 10-12 to visit, enjoy
your coffee, and help to create crafts to be used in the RE program. Babies and
children are invited! Contact Stina Lane-Cummings (stina@kempf.com)
or Betsy Lowry (dre@wsuu.org).
4. DRUM ‘N
DINE: Bring the whole family
to participate in some great fun, drumming together this coming Wednesday,
February 27th at 6:30. Enjoy a potluck dinner!
THIS
WEEK:
Story Time: This week our children will share a story and snack together.
Please let the teachers in the class know if your child has a food allergy.
Spirit Play: This
week’s story is “The Rooster Who Learned to Crow,” a Yellow promise story,
which is our 5th principle – yearn to accept and learn about
ourselves and others. In this story, a young rooster grows up on a farm that is
always late because it had no rooster to crow early in the morning. All the
animals are excited for the rooster to be old enough to crow, but the rooster
is fearful that it doesn’t know how to crow and that his friends won’t like him
anymore. He does crow, of course, and the other animals give him the open
acceptance and love he is yearning for.
Kindergarten through Second Grade: “Wonderful Welcome”: This week’s class
in the Wonderful Welcome curriculum is
about the “The Gift of Friendship.” The Wonder Box has friendship bracelets in
it. The kids will hear a Native American story about a coyote who learns to
value his friends, and then role play with character puppets. (This is the same
story I told in the Story for All Ages a couple weeks ago.) Children will learn
that having friends and being a friend are an important part of who we are.
Third through Fifth Grades: “Love Will Guide Us”: This week in the Love Will Guide Us curriculum, the class will explore our first
Unitarian Universalist Source, “Direct experience of that transcending mystery
and wonder…” in a lesson titled “Awesome Love.” The class will experience the
mystery and wonder of different objects and learn that all of their varied
experiences and wonderings are “right” and true to them. Our first Source is
rooted in Transcendentalism, most notably in the thinking of Henry David
Thoreau, who taught us to live in harmony with nature, and Ralph Waldo Emerson,
who taught us we can directly experience the awe, wonder, and mystery in
nature.
Middle School: “Riddle and Mystery”: No lesson this
week. We have important possibilities to discuss, and plans to make! This week
middle school teachers and the DRE will facilitate planning for a social justice
project for the next few months. We will also talk about what our MS youth want
to do as a youth group for fun this spring. And we have two opportunities for
upcoming music and theatrical fun in our services – join our new band, and act
in a skit!
High School: “Our Name is Earl”:
Our next class will be
March 17th, since the youth are leading the service on March 3rd.
The teachers have added a youth class for March 24th so we’ll meet
twice this month. Mark your calendars!
Youth Group
will meet in the Social Hall from 7:00pm to 8:30pm, to make final preparations
for the service for March 3rd. Shelby and Joe will be advising this
week.
See
you Sunday!
Betsy
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