RECY (Religious Education for Children and Youth) Weekly 11.25.2011
Dear OCUUC Parents-
‘Tis the Season! Preparations are moving into high gear for our Christmas Eve Pageant, Would You Like to Hold the Baby. Please see details below and jump in on the participation if you can, this is a wonderful evening of family and church bonding and holiday fun. Beth Syverson will be leading the choir and pageant, and I am coordinating the acting roles. The acting roles are NON-speaking parts. We have the costumes, we just need participants of all ages to join us that evening. There are several rehearsals for the choir, see details below, just one for the actors on Thursday Dec. 22nd. Pizza dinner and more fun that evening, 6:30 p.m.
Religious Education is currently looking at adding a full RE program to our first service time on Sundays. Please send any thought, ideas or comments to me, we want to hear from you. The target date for beginning this pilot program is February 5 2012.
Note the link to sign up for Camp de Benneville Pines winter camps below. The camps fill quickly, particularly Sr. High Camp, so get your registration money in soon. Some scholarship money is available through OCUUC, contact Rayna for more information.
Thanks for all you do~~
Rayna Hamre, OCUUC Director of Religious Education
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- Rehearsal for the Christmas Eve children’s choir. All children are invited to participate:
Rehearsals will be Sundays from 1:00-1:45pm in the Gillan 3 classroom on these dates: November 27; December 4 (in the Sanctuary); December 11; December 18
The children’s choir will sing at the Christmas Eve service which will be on Saturday, December 24 at 7pm. There will be a rehearsal around 6pm that night. The Christmas Eve service this year will be the “Would You Like to Hold the Baby?” pageant, which involves children, youth, and grown-ups acting out the nativity story. Children can participate in BOTH the pageant and the children’s choir if they wish. MusicDirectorocuucorg (MusicDirectorocuucorg) or dreocuucorg (dreocuucorg)
- Non-speaking, December 24th pageant parts available. Please contact Rayna or sign up at the RE Table on Sunday:
Mary, Joseph, Donkey, Innkeeper & Wife, Stable girl, Shepherds, 3 Wise People, Dove, sheep, cow, cats, horse & barnyard animals
- Backstage help needed:
Costume & mask helpers (night of the performance), staging coordinators, prop assistants, clean up and set break down(at least 4 helpers needed) dreocuucorg
- Winter Jr. High OWL. The UU Fellowship of Long Beach will be hosting Jr. High Our Whole Lives (OWL) for grades 8-9 (grade 7 on a case-by-case basis). This class will be held from late January to early March 2012. OWL training teaches young people to be responsible and become knowledgeable about their bodies and sexual choices. Contact Rayna or Merrie Lee if you are interested and would like more information. See attached, and info flyers will be available at the RE Table with the dates dreocuucorg (dreocuucorg)
- Registration is ongoing for winter camps at de Benneville Pines. Sr. registration goes fast, sign up asap http://www.uucamp.org/
- Ongoing. Families are invited to bring non-perishable foods and toiletry items for the Share Our Selves (SOS) little green shopping cart on the patio. Goods will be dropped at SOS each week.
- Share Our Selves (SOS) adopt-a-family. Information on the patio for adopting a family for the winter holiday
- June 20-24 2012, UU Justice General Assembly (GA) in Phoenix http://www.uua.org/ga/ GA is the yearly general conference for the entire UU denomination. This year it is being held in Phoenix, and this is a wonderful opportunity for our families and youth to attend. We hope to have some fund raisers this year to help send our youth to Justice GA. Here is is a link to the new UU Justice GA blog http://immigrationjustice.blogs.uua.org/
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