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Religious Education ("RE")
"...Explore the material and psychological distractions that prevent
us from caring for the Earth, and to acknowledge the connection between our lifestyle choices and the
condition of the Earth . . . Clarify earth-related values . . .Explore the meaning of sustainability, to
consider the ties between lifestyle choices and their impact on the earth . . . Religious education is
key to learning about the complexities of the environmental ~ Green Sanctuary
Program Manual
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Tapestry of Faith: Gather the Spirit
Fall 2010
Religious Education, Social Justice and Green Sanctuary team members will be
reviewing and modifying this UU curriculm in hopes of offering the eight-week course either early next
fall. "Gather the Spirit is an eight-session, multigenerational program that teaches stewardship with
a focus on water. Stewardship can take many forms: donating money to our congregations and to causes
we care about; volunteering to teach, to lead or to physically maintain our congregations; helping to
meet the needs of others and protecting our shared resources in our local and global communities. Perhaps,
today, there is no more compelling focus for our stewardship than the clean, drinkable water all life on
Earth requires. Through a lens both scientific and religious, using activities a wide range of ages can
do together, this program addresses the importance of water, the inequity of access to clean water, and
actions we can take as Unitarian Universalist stewards."
Be on the lookout for announcements in the future.
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BUF Peace on Earth Camp is Back!!
August 2-August 10
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BUF‛s Peace on Earth Summer Camp is entering its second year.
The 2010 Peace on Earth Camp Curriculum will feature "water" as our theme for activities.
With respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we all are a part, we
will help take care of our world with an emphasis on habitat, sustainability and peace.
For more information, click here on our camp
brochure!
This year we will be tromping in the woods, scooping up pond water and looking into the lake
with our home made waterscopes. We will even put on a play! Please search your home and basement for
any items on this list to donate or loan. Please place any items in the bin in the foyer or feel free
to call Lori (220-7586) if you need an item picked up. In addition to some more common items, we are
also looking for 2-3 microscopes to borrow for 1-2 days for pond water examination.
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Material Donations
- White water painting paper (large size)
- Clean trash (boxes/containers & creative items to build a sculpture)
- Heavy paper plates
- Plastic serrated knives
- Paper towels
- Old fabric towels
- Old adult-size shirts for paint smocks
- Aluminum (foil is fine) pie plates (10)
- Eye droppers (5)
- Pieces of Styrofoam and cardboard
- Nylon stockings
- Plastic bottles with lids
- Cardboard tubes (mailing tubes or paper towel or wrapping paper tubes)
- Toothpicks (3 boxes)
- Masking tape
- Empty, clean milk or juice bottles or coffee or juice cans
- Lots of blue fabric for theatre performance set
- Lots of cardboard (flattened) for constructing theatre sets
- Fabric (large) remnants to make theatre performance costumes
- Spray bottles (clean for water)
- Pipe cleaners
- Eye droppers
- Large jars with lids
- Old nylon stockings
- Peanut butter
- Bird seed
- Disposable gloves (30 sets)
- Tooth picks
- Water balloons
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Financial Donations: (Note Summer Camp in check memo line)
- Scholarship Fund (Camp fee is $75 per child)
- Roll of large/wide butcher paper (to draw outlines of campers’ bodies on)
- Money to purchase 36 colored bandanas ($1 each)
- Money to purchase 30 Journal folders (pocket folder with 3 clasps)
- Money to purchase 15 Curriculum binders
- Money to purchase 36 plastic pin-on Nametags
- Sharpie markers
- Large flip chart with lined paper
Loans: (Label with name & phone number to be returned)
- 20 old sheets (they may get dirty!)
- Two 1-gallon buckets
- 3 Broomsticks
- 3 5-gallon buckets
- 2 step ladders
- Small kid tent
- Book: The Rainbow and You, by Edwin C. Krupp and Robin Rector Krupp
- Book: Swimmy, by Leo Lionni
- Glue guns
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No events planned at this time. Keep checking back!
To see our children's past green events click here.
To see our adult past events click here to see the past events page.
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