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BRIDGES
Bringing
Religion Into Daily Growth, Experience, and Service
Our BRIDGES Covenant
We will nurture each other’s spiritual growth through common worship experiences, shared inquiry and service activities, and supportive interactions.
We will nurture each other’s spiritual growth through common worship experiences, shared inquiry and service activities, and supportive interactions.
The BRIDGES Vision and Mission
The BRIDGES Program of the First Unitarian Universalist Society projects a vision of congregational life with religious inquiry at its center. This religious inquiry is a lifelong journey of each with the support of all and an ongoing journey of all informed by the unique gifts of each. We envision a church family – adults, children, youth, couples, single parents, individuals – growing in the liberal faith together. Such growth, we believe, is grounded in experience and in experience-centered learning; in life lived as an intentional pilgrimage, an exploration of the present and its possibilities which leads toward a larger life for ourselves and for all, a pilgrimage that “reveres the past, but trusts the dawning future more,” a pilgrimage in which we make the road by walking.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
BRIDGES A
10 – 10:45AM Adult and Children’s Religious Education Classes
11 – 12PM Family Worship Service (Children leave at 11:20AM for Children's Chapel)
BRIDGES B
11:30-12PM Children's group RE activity
12 – 1PM Social Hour (coffee & refreshments)
ACTIVITIES FOR ADULTS
For the adults, the BRIDGES A (10-10:45AM) period is for adult RE sessions, committee and group meetings and other activities. The main advantage is greater potential for participation because more members and friends of the congregation will have access to these events. For this reason, we encourage other groups and committees to consider aligning themselves to this time slot. Currently, the following regularly scheduled meetings occur before BRIDGES A:
- 9:00 – 10:00AM Building and Grounds Committee (FH)
- 9:30 - 10:45AM Adult Discussion Group every Sunday (RE parlor)
- 9 - 10AM Membership Committee 3rd Sunday of month (FH)
There are other be adult RE sessions taking place during BRIDGES A (10-10:45):
- For every Sunday in September, the following are scheduled:
- 10-10:45AM Choir (Sanctuary)
- 10-10:45AM Adult RE sessions on the monthly theme: Peace (FH)
- 10-10:45AM BRIDGES Conversation (FH)
- Once a month, the following are scheduled:
- 10-10:45AM Green Sanctuary 3rd Sunday of month
- 10-10:45AM Leadership Roundtable w/ Comm. on Ministries (FH)
ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
For the children, the 10-10:45AM period will have RE classes on a monthly theme for three age groups/grades: K-3, 4-7, and 8-12 (youth group). The 4 & 5 yr. olds will gather in the RE Kitchen for “Chalice Children” (a new offering to help our young people get to know one another, our church, and Unitarian Universalism.
10:45 is a time of Transition/Break. Then, everyone will join together for the Worship Service at 11AM in the Sanctuary.
Following the all ages part of the Worship Service, the children will go downstairs to the Fellowship Hall for Children’s Chapel and then a joint children/adults activity.
NURSERY
The professionally staffed Nursery will be open 10AM-12 noon for those too young for children’s programs.