Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Growing the program

The RE program believes in teaching the children and youth about stewardship, and our latest fundraisers have been an enormous success.

Our dog biscuit fundraiser for the UUFC auction netted $98.50. We pre-sold $50 worth of biscuits, and the others were sold at Trading Post. Max did a fabulous job of helping us sell those. If you have pictures of your dogs enjoying the biscuits, let us know! We'd love to see them!

Our trick or treat event was also a great fundraiser. We had great fundraisers: King Tut, Rainbow Dash, a renaissance woman, a transformer, several princesses and even Sergio Romero (the Argentinian futbol goalie) helped collect money to buy some plants for the South Carolina Botanical Garden. We hope to buy a few plants in honor of John Turner. We collected $98.72 and Carolyn rounded that up to an even $100.

Thanks for your support of the RE children's fundraising efforts. We are happy that the children and youth can participate in growing the congregation in many ways, including financially supporting the fellowship.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Trick or Treat!

On October 26, bring your pocket change! We will be trick or treating for the South Carolina Botanical Garden. We've done trick or treat for other organizations in the past, but decided to collect for one closer to home. The students have recently worked in the butterfly garden and wish to support this great organization!

So, enjoy the costumes and help the kids have a successful event!

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Namaste

If you missed out on the dog biscuit auction item, we have others left for sale at Trading Post! So far, the dogs who have gotten their biscuits have given them two paws up. We will have a table set up on October 19. Go by and get a bag of three very large biscuits or ten smaller biscuits for only $5. The money raised goes to the trading post funds. The teens will be happy to help you with these. So, go by and see a teen and buy some treats for your favorite dog.

Our sessions on Hinduism is off to a great start. The early learners were introduced to the world's oldest living tradition. If you see an early learner, greet them with a "Namaste." The teens got to cook, making a side dish of fruit, potatoes and sweet potatoes, with Indian spices.

And, if you missed the picture opportunity for the time capsule, you can still email a picture to sarahjaeschke at gmail dot com, but do it very soon. She will be putting this together in the next few days.

Monday, October 6, 2014

A Few of Their Favorite Things

UUFC is creating a time capsule and we want the children and youth to be a part of it!

We know that special objects are just that and we don't want them to part with anything they love. Instead, we want to take a picture of them with their special object. It should be something that has meaning and importance to them. They might also wish to consider, as one teen put it, finding an object that they would be proud to show off when the time capsule is rediscovered.

On October 12, the children and youth should bring their special object to class. We'll then take a picture of each child with their object and maybe find out why the object is important to them.

Teens will be cooking at Founders' House, so our photographer will come by around 11:20 to take any pictures.

Children in the nursery can participate too! We will get their pictures either before or after the lesson.

If you can't be there on Sunday, feel free to send us a picture instead. Use this email: sarahjaeschke at gmail dot com.

And that's it! We will take the pictures and create a collage to add to the time capsule.

Thanks in advance for the help with this fun project.