Worship Calendar
All our services begin on time at 10:30 am and are generally over at 11:45, give or take a few minutes.
April 3rd: Stewardship: Caring for Our Beloved Community
Rev. Peggy Clarke kicks off our annual Pledge Campaign.
April 10th: Science, Religion and Unitarian Universalism
Brian Cole and Don Redpath ask questions about how we know and what we believe.
April 17th: Ministry: Serving Our Beloved Community
Rev. Peggy Clarke leads a less traditional service to help us all consider the future of ministry at 4th U.
April 24th: Easter Sunday
Join us at 6:00 am on the Hudson River for a sunrise service. At 9:30 we’ll have our traditional Easter Brunch and the Easter Service, including a New Member Joining Ceremony, starting at 10:30.
May 1st: Service Planning Service
Run by the Worship Committee.
May 8th: Raising UU Children
Melissa Cole presiding.
May 15th: Animal Blessing
Organized by Gretchen Ostrander. Bring Your Pets!!
May 22nd: Coming of Age
Rite of Passage.
May 29th: Informal Service
June 5th: Religious Education Recognition Sunday
June 12th: Flower Communion
Rev. Peggy Clarke presiding.
Jan 18, 2011 @ 12:06:16
It would be nice to see a list of upcoming special evets like spahgetti game nigh, Seder, tag sale posted well in advance so people can make plans. Also, I think we need to tell people explicitly how to find the blog and how to sign up. I only found out in a roundabout way.
Jan 18, 2011 @ 14:48:57
I agree. The page What’s Happening at 4th U is meant to do that, at least until we have an updated website where these things can be posed. I will post anything that comes to me, so please send whatever you’ve got!
Feb 02, 2011 @ 21:00:51
Hello, All–I learned on Sunday that I have hospitality this coming Sunday (2/6/11) but have just been invited to a family gathering in NYC on Sunday morning. Sunday is bring in lunch, and I’ve never done one, so I don’t know if it’s coffee & bagels as much as it is set up and clean up. Would anyone be willing to trade spots with me? I would be forever grateful.
In fellowship, Annie Chesnut
Feb 06, 2011 @ 22:24:15
It occurs to me that we have had training seminars for segments of the population that some of our fellow congregants might not be acquainted with in order to become a welcoming congregation. This being said I need to point out that we now have many children that are already part our Fellowship which are part of an unrecognized group. This group is children who have trauma histories. A child with a trauma history is a child who is either from the foster system, adopted, or had any type of major childhood crisis. Think PTSD. The reason I point this out is that when speaking with many of these children you must understand that if confronted, these children will immediately go into survival or “flight” mode. This is their past blueprint. When they are in a survival state many call this dysregulation. The reason for the terms regulation and dysregulation is so we do not become judgmental with identifying feelings. When a child is dysregulated it is not the time to teach a moral lesson. This can only happen after the amygdala has had time to return to a state of equilibrium and balance. No amount of logic can pull a child out of their already overwhelmed state. Children are not all the same. Just as all adults are not the same. When in doubt and you feel a moral lesson is called for, speak to the parents NOT the child directly.
Feb 06, 2011 @ 22:40:09
Mollysue–This is complicated stuff, and I’m not sure what you are referring to here when you refer to ‘moral lesson’–do you mean an adult correcting a child because of some perceived misbehavior?
Feb 06, 2011 @ 22:47:03
Yes, that is exactly what I mean.
Feb 07, 2011 @ 12:44:53
I have never found ‘church’ to be an easy place for kids–while my (now grown) children didn’t have the challenges you mention, they had their own emotional & health challenges that made them ‘different.’
Whenever there are people convinced that their method of interacting with children is the only one with value, when generations are freely mixing, or when folks–for whatever reason–feel free to tell everyone’s kids what they should and shouldn’t be doing, there’s the potential for misunderstanding.
This sounds like it might be a topic for the [adult] group as a whole.
Mar 10, 2011 @ 05:45:05
For all who are raising or teaching children:
Who remembers Raffi or Baby Beluga?
CHILD HONOURING – HOW TO TURN THIS WORLD AROUND
Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Edited by Raffi Cavoukian and Sharna Olfman.
The Philosophy:
http://childhon.sc25.info/covenantprinciples.html
Mar 13, 2011 @ 17:54:49
This is great Molly! Thanks for posting.
Jun 03, 2011 @ 20:32:58
Everyone, please come to the service on Sunday, June 5th, for R.E. Recognition. This service will be honoring all the teachers who have taught this past year, as well as the children in the Religious Education program. This is an annual service that proves to be an important one for every person in the congregation.