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Religious Education & Faith Development
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at White Plains
February 20, 2022
2021-2022 RE Theme: Community, Wholeness, Discovering Our New Normal
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Urgent Need
Gus, Helen, and Julieta Caro, a CUUC family and RE teacher, lost their home and belongings recently when a fire burned through their New Rochelle apartment building.
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We are organizing support for the family. They are looking for temporary housing near New Rochelle so Julieta can continue in her elementary school. In addition, they need clothing, coats and other winter gear, school supplies, and personal items. Clothing sizes are women’s size M, men’s size M-L (34-30), and children’s size 12-14. Financial donations and gift cards are also welcome. Eventually, they will need to furnish a new home; we will share about those and additional needs as they arise. The family has their hands full managing immediate arrangements so we ask that donations and questions go through Caring and Sharing member, Julie Gans (julieagans@gmail.com & 914-830-0944). Thank you so much.
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Congregation Meeting & Vote
Members Please Attend & Vote
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Nominations for the Nominating Committee
Please consider serving in a CUUC leadership role! If you'd like to serve on our Nominating and Leadership Development Committee, or want to nominate another member (with their consent), complete our nomination application form (select an application to print, fill in, and mail; or an application to type in, save, and attach to an email). Send form to board chair Joe Majsak, either by email (jmajsak@verizon.net) or USPS mail (26 Blackthorn Lane, White Plains, NY 10606). Application deadline is Sun Mar 13. Contact: Joe Majsak (jmajsak@verizon.net, 914-281-3243). See our letter here.
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From the COVID Safety Team
CUUC Returns to In-Person
Worship and RE
Sunday, March 6th!
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Vaccinations, masking, and distancing will still be required, but we can now sing our hymns out loud (while keeping our masks on) instead of humming. We won’t be serving refreshments yet, but we will soon have a “Coffee-Free Coffee Hour” time after worship for socializing. We will continue to offer our online livestream of the worship so people may attend remotely. Click here to see the email message from the committee.
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Supporting Young People's Mental Health
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Nurturing Resilience
Knowing that our young people need extra support these days, we are introducing weekly resources for nurturing resilience and encouraging caring conversations between young people and their peers, and young people and trusted adults. Visit the growing list of resources here. |
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Week 5: February 20, 2022
5-7 Minute Video: Managing Intense Emotions
This is our fourth week sharing support materials from the Child Mind Institute’s California Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids Project. This series of free videos and print resources for parents, educators, and young people, available in English and Spanish, is designed to promote young people’s emotional health and help them thrive. The five video topics for children, middle school youth, and high school youth are understanding feelings, relaxation skills, understanding thoughts, managing intense emotions, and mindfulness.
Family discussion: We are inviting your family to watch and discuss one short video each week, during dinner or another family time. You can use the corresponding skill sheets, which offer key takeaways and skills to practice. This week, we encourage you to watch the fourth short video, managing intense emotions, and discuss it together. The suggested activity is learning that when big emotions take over, calming items can help bring us back to the present moment and ride out that intensity. Click the link below for the short managing intense emotions video and skill sheets for your child’s age group:
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Peer Pastoral Care Training
for Youth
Sunday, March 13th, 1:30pm, Online
We are working with the UUA to offer a series of interactive online workshops for youth to learn peer pastoral care skills - deep listening and sharing feelings.
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The first is March 13th at 1:30pm. Pastoral care is an essential part of religious community and an essential part of caring for each other as human beings. We each can be present to each other as we go through both the hard and joyful parts of life. Compassion, witness, listening, and empathy are gifts we can give each other. Sharing those gifts with others helps us learn to receive those gifts when we need them. Registration information coming soon.
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Youth Mental Health Training
for Adults
March 15 & 16, 12:00-3:00pm, Online
Additional Dates Available
Led by Unitarian Universalist Association Staff
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Youth Mental Health First Aid is a model of support developed by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. YMHFA is based on an action plan that 1) focuses on ensuring youth have a voice and a choice in their mental health care and recovery & 2) teaches people how to respond in a crisis or emergency situation. In this training you will learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental health challenges and crises in youth and practice applying appropriate steps to help youth.
The training totals 8 hours, which includes two hours of self-paced content and two three-hour, instructor-led group learning sessions on Zoom. Upon completion of the course you will receive a Mental Health First Aider certificate and access to a community forum with other Unitarian Universalist mental health first aiders. Register here. We invite you to forward your $40 receipt to Tracy for reimbursement.
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Story Time
New Story Starting
Mondays, 7:15pm Check In & 7:30-8:00pm Story
Zoom 6161 | Meeting ID: 616 163 6161 · Passcode: 468468
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Monday February 21st, Barbara will begin a new book, The Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit. Five children find a magic carpet, able to journey through time and space, and inside it a strange egg which hatches into the Phoenix, an ancient and honorable bird who helps them have adventures which never turn out exactly as planned. Our regular attendees are ages 10-12. All are welcome! With the start of a new book, it's a great time to join in! Contact: Tracy, cuucwptracy@gmail.com.
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LGBTQIA Workshop
Trends in Gender Identity, Intersectionality, and Neurodiversity
Sun Mar 6, 11:15am, Sanctuary and Zoom 2210
Childcare will be available
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Tony Arrien of the LGBTQIA Social Justice Team presents a workshop and Q&A session to share important trends relevant to teachers, administrators, employers, mental health professionals, LGBTQ allies, and UUs so we can become more aware, inclusive, understanding, supportive, and welcoming of diverse peoples, gender identities, and neurotypes, and appreciate the effect of their combined minority stress. We will learn about the emerging term “Neuroqueer.” Contact: Tony Arrien (arrien@optonline.net).
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Online Cooking Class
Great Family Activity
“Chef’s Knife Skills & 30-Minute Sauté Supper Recipe, with John Schwam,” Online, Sun Feb 27, 5:00pm, Zoom 7899
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Join this online congregation event to learn easy and fancy chef skills, and create a delicious sauté supper you’ve never had. John Schwam will share food prep techniques plus his recipe for Shrimp Creole Asiastique. Click here for the recipe and to learn more. Contact: John Schwam, jgschwam@gmail.com.
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Center Lane
Weekly Programming
centerlane@wjcs.com & 914-423-0610
~ Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30pm - TransParentcy (for youth and adults, meeting in separate groups)
~ Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm - Rainbow Squad! (for 5th-8th graders, ages 8-13)
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This Sunday
February 20th
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RE Classes on Break
Classes for 1st-9th graders do not meet February 20th and 27th due to the week-long school break. We look forward to resuming gatherings in person Sunday, March 6th, 1st-9th grade classes at 10:00am and childcare at 9:45am!
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In preparation for our return to in person gatherings, we ask families to send updated vaccination information to Tracy (cuucwptracy@gmail.com). We will continue using blue dots on nametags to indicate completed vaccines, which allow people of all ages to move freely throughout the building.
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10:00am Worship
Online
“Chimp Lessons” ~ Rev. Meredith Garmon
What are we? What sort of animal is the homo sapiens? As we continue to explore this question, what insights arise from research on our chimpanzee cousins?
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