RECY (Religious Education for Children and Youth) Weekly 11.4.2011

By Rayna Hamre posted Friday, November 4, 2011, 12:01 pm

Dear OCUUC Parents-
Here are our highlighted activities for this busy fall 2011 week: Craft, Cider and Stories Night with Judi & Rayna on Sat. 11/19 rsvp requested; Talents and Services Auction THIS Sunday 11/6 after 2^nd service.

A big thanks to Merrie Lee, Heather, Vera Viana-Asper, Frankie Seigfried, Jade & Jeremiah, Gabrielle Block, and Birdie Reed for assistance with our special activities on Halloween Sunday. Our regular volunteer teachers jumped right in, too. Adults and young people had a fun day. We had a learning activity centered around our reverse trick-or-treat packets that were put together by the children and were sent home for each family.

Thanks for all you do~~

Rayna Hamre, OCUUC Director of Religious Education

Family Night of Crafts, Cider and Stories, Saturday November 19th, 4-7 p.m. Come for a cozy evening of crafts with Judi and stories with Rayna. Warm cider and fall snacks, too. All who are young at heart are most welcome! Please RSVP to Rayna (dreocuucorg) so we can plan supplies and food. dreocuucorg (dreocuucorg)
All children and youth are invited to sing in the Christmas Eve children’s choir. I will also have parts for hand percussion if they would rather play than sing:

Rehearsals will be Sundays from 1:00-1:45pm in the Gillan 3 classroom on these dates: November 27; December 4; 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)

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. Info flyers will be available at the RE Table.dreocuucorg (dreocuucorg)
Saturday, November 5^th Assist with our building and grounds clean up and maintenance.
9:00 am Work Party, OCUUC grounds
November 6th will be our all-church Goods and Services auction. I have been to some wonderful events over the years, including pizza making last month. Plan to offer an event and come for the fun! Contact Rayna or Merrie Lee for more information. dreocuucorg (dreocuucorg)
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.
June 20-24 2012, UU Justice General Assembly in Phoenix http://www.uua.org/ga/ This is our 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/