Dear Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers, and everyone with a commitment and passion for the children, youth and families at First Unitarian:
We hope you have had a restorative summer generously sprinkled with wonder and joy. You may know that Tim Versteeg has moved to Texas to take a position with the UU church in San Antonio. The CYRE transitional team has been hard at work collaborating with our new settled minister, Reverend Danie Webber and our church community to prepare for 2024-2025 and we are looking forward to welcoming you back.
We invite you to reconnect with us on Sunday September 8, when we’ll we begin our church year with our Ingathering Service including the Blessing of the Backpacks.
Ingathering Water Communion Service
September 8, 2024 @ 10:30 am
An Invitation: Water Communion service is a traditional service for Unitarian Universalist communities, where we witness the blessings of the community gathering together like many trickling streams into a flowing river. We invite you to join us for this ritual of coming together, by bringing some water from your world. Maybe it’s from your garden, or your swimming pool. Maybe you have been working to protect our sacred waters, or you have been playing by the water. And perhaps your relationship with water is strongest from the taps in your house. You can bring tap water to symbolize any water from your travels that you didn’t collect. As we come together this Sunday let us consider how we interact with water in our life, and how it can serve as a metaphor for invitation into community. This multigenerational service will be led by Rev. Danie Webber.
Please bring refreshments, nut-free goodies or fresh fruit for a potluck coffee hour following the service.
Blessing of the Backpacks. In this multigenerational service we will also have our traditional Blessing of the Backpacks. Backpacks, suitcases, purses, totes and “invisible backpacks” will be blessed and participants will receive a small token to remind them that the love of our community accompanies them as they start school, work or simply enter Autumn.
Keep an eye on your inbox as more details about September are to come, including ways to honour The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
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Warmest regards,
Your Co-Chairs Mary Eve and Tanya Collins and the CYRE Team