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.
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.
Join us as we practice LOVE this month with your friends and families by making dog and cat blankets for animals in shelters waiting to be adopted! Once you have signed up for our event below please sign up to donate materials as well! Our goal is to make 50 blankets and your help is needed to reach this goal. All blankets will be made with material donations provided.
East Shore Middle and High School Youth & Families, At the request of some of our January snow shoe outing participants, we are planning a bike ride around East Shore!
Join us inside as we practice COLLABORATION this month with your friends and families by making an emergency kit and an evacuation plan for your community! Make sure to stick around at the end for a short reflection time. During this time we will reflect as a group and share the service we did, how we felt, and how we can continue building on our character and be of service to others.
This week for RE, we have two options, including a special extended event for All Ages outdoors. We will form small teams to work on native plant restoration projects throughout our grounds. Bring a picnic lunch, some clothes you can get dirty, and a pair of gloves. We’re also hosting a first ever plant swap. Plant swaps are a money-free tradition to exchange mostly, but not exclusively, perennial plants that are often divided and dug up at the turns of the season.
East Shore's Community Mural Project is our main community action project for 2022. Come participate in this collaborative project that explores values, creativity and nature. The Community Mural Project - People of all ages and abilities can get involved here, use this link to sign up. On June 20-25th, we'll prep and paint the mural background. On June 27-July 1, we'll paint the mural in collaboration with campers. Speak with Doug Strombom if you have any questions about the community mural project.
