Youth GroupSunday Schedule
This summer the Youth Group will be joining the rest of RE for the Practices of Spirituality program.
Practices of Spirituality Program Schedule: June 21st: Labyrinth June 28th: Yoga July 5th: Meditation July 12th: Interpretive Dance July 19th: Yoga July 26th: Qigong (kids will be in service the first 15 minutes) August 2nd: Prayer August 9th: Poetry & Song August 16th: Yoga August 23rd: Qigong August 30th: The Environment September 6th: Spiritual Readings September 13th: RE Kick-Off Open House During the school year, our youth group functions with an open forum format. This means that the group is run by the Youth in an open and judge-free format where everyone has a chance to talk. What the youth decide to put into the program is what they will get out of it. They decide what they would like to learn and talk about and come up with the means to do so. We have recently applied this format to Neighboring Faiths. Neighboring Faiths is a curriculum based on exploring different Religions. The teens decide on which faiths they'd like to explore and how they'd like to utilize the curriculum lessons into the open forum format. Our Youth advisers are there as supervision and to make sure things stay on track as well as provide any guidance the youth may seek. The month of March was focused on Buddhism. The Youth group visited the Kadampa Medidation Center for their service 'Prayers for World Peace' as well as heard from our own congregation member who has been practicing Buddhism for 40 years and holds a meditation group here at UU Sarasota. April & May were focused on our Annual Youth Pancake Breakfast and our involvement with the Harvey Milk Festival! We will resume Neighboring Faiths in September! |