HP Rivers

  • Story-Based Online RE Lesson Plan – “Wilma Jean the Worry Machine”

    Chalice Lighting Check In How are you doing? What’s one awesome or interesting thing you’ve done or learned since social distancing? Story Wilma Jean the Worry Machine Follow Up & Activity What is something you’re worried about? Write down each worry on a post-it, stick to a window, board, or piece of paper. Then, put…

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  • Virtual Lesson Plan for Ostara with COVID-19 Tie-In

    Feel free to use or adapt this lesson plan with attribution. Email me at uuctdre2810@gmail.com with any questions or concerns. CHALICE LIGHTING CHECK IN What is something good that happened this week? What is something that you worried about? STORY Adapted from The Ostara Bunny by Rev. Christina Leone Once upon a time, a long,…

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  • A Message to the Children & Youth of UUCT Regarding COVID-19 Closures

    UU congregations and religious professionals are welcome and encouraged to use or adapt this video and/or script however they see fit. Feel free to email me at uuctdre2810@gmail.com with any questions or concerns. Hey friends! I’m Helen. I’m the Director of Religious Exploration at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee. My pronouns are she/her/hers, and…

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  • Rebecca’s Garden

    Rebecca’s Garden Written by Helen Rose For the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee’s Flower Communion Sunday, March 8, 2020 From the first day they met, Rebecca and Rachel were inseparable. As children, they were the best of friends, and as they got older, they fell in love. They were married in the mountains in the…

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  • Affirmations to Our Inner Children

    On Sunday, February 16, 2020, I asked the congregation of UUCT to write down a message they wish they had heard when they were younger. These affirmations to our inner children were written on small wooden hearts, which were then assembled into a chain that will be placed in our new Religious Exploration classroom, so…

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  • The Inherent Worth and Dignity of Donald Trump

    When we teach our children the 7 UU principles, instead of “we affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of all people” we simplify it a little bit and say, “each person is important.” In my opinion, that first principle kind of covers it. If we acknowledge that each person is important, that we…

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