The Within Phase of Beloved Conversations: Virtual will continue in the Spring Term. We would love to have you (and everyone you know!) join us for another term of this program, with a continued focus on personal learning and growth!
Kids and families, please join us on Christmas Eve at 3:30pm for a pre-service scavenger hunt. You’ll have some fun wandering the campus grounds searching for UUnique items! Be sure to come so you can get your warm cocoa and prizes! Check in at the Sanctuary Courtyard Landing.
World building and imaginative play: Join us in the Sanctuary to construct a new world. Bring a pillow and a blanket. What can we learn about community, individualism, and cooperation from building an epic pillow fort? Join us to play and see.
Please come for a information and conversation session about our winter programs, reopening the campus for worship, and an opportunity to social and connect as an RE community. Lunch Provided. Movie “Howl’s Moving Castle” will be shown in the North Room for kids to hang out while adults talk some!
Please bring proof of vaccination for you and your children (over age 4) for us to check! We’ll have registration available for RE classes as well. While parents are registering and providing proof of vaccine, children and youth will continue planning the Blessing of the Animals worship service, a short story telling of “The Great Kapok Tree”.
Middle and high school youth outdoors, along with youth advisor Mark Norelius, on a fun adventure into the wild woods of I-90. We would leave from ESUC and return by 8 pm. This youth outdoors program will include snowshoeing, sledding and dinner cooked over an open fire in the snow. You can bring your own equipment or check in with the church about borrowing equipment. We have snowshoes to share.
Register youth online and you'll receive the link to the parent orientation after signup. Learn more about OWL and how it will help your teen grow. You'll have an opportunity to reflect on your own experiences of learning about sexuality and meet the trained teachers ready to help your teens navigate sexuality in a values-centered class!
Join on the 2nd and 4th Sundays thru June for online and in person religious exploration. We’ll be learning about some of the foundational stories that help govern the wisdom of our Unitarian Universalist identity and have time for connection and sharing.
This in person class covers comprehensive human sexuality, including relationship skills, contraception, and navigating changes and sensation in a human body! A fun and engaging program for adolescence. Registration Required.
Please join Meaningful Movies Bellevue on zoom, Tuesday, January 25th, at 7:00 PM for the 2020 documentary: Healing From Hate - How young men get into -and out-of-violent extremism. In this 84 minute film, Healing From Hate examines the root causes of hate group activity through the bold work of those battling intolerance on the front lines, including Life After Hate, an organization founded by former Skinheads and neo-Nazis, now engaged in transforming attitudes of intolerance. Documenting a stunning era of hatred in America, Healing From Hate follows these reformers in their work to de-radicalize White Nationalists, and heal communities torn apart by racism. Afterwards, please join in our discussion group to talk about the film.
Join us as we discuss The Cold Millions by Jess Walter. An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams.
Join us as we practice KINDNESS this month with your friends and families by making craft kits for the junior orthopedic guild. Families will be assembling craft kits in Ziploc bags and may be cutting material needed to place in the Ziploc bags as well. If time permits families will be invited to make cards for children the Junior Orthopedic Guild serves.
Log on to connect with a volunteer team, schedule your volunteer dates, talk about curriculum, and ask questions of the RE staff. We will be introducing ourselves and introducing the curriculum that will be used. We will also be discussing safety and our principle and covenantal guidelines.
Please join in creating care packages to send to many of the young, emerging adults who are a part of East Shore’s congregation’s community and extended family! Please bring items to contribute to January 30 and February 6. On February 6, following worship, we will have a packing party to make and decorate 16 Emerging Adult Boxes.
Join on the 1st and 3rd Sundays thru June for outdoor programs. We have offerings for ages 5-8, 8-10, and 11-13 led by volunteer parents and teachers. We continue to wear masks and social distance at all times. Our core curricula center on Unitarian Universalist principles and the sources of wisdom from which those derive: world religions, our own direct experience, and the natural world of which we are a part.