Over 60 people joined us last Sunday for a fantastic trip to Carver Hill Orchard in Stow to share lunch and pick some delicious apples together. Weather was beautiful, apples were bountiful, and fun times were had by all! Enjoy the photos!
Over 60 people joined us last Sunday for a fantastic trip to Carver Hill Orchard in Stow to share lunch and pick some delicious apples together. Weather was beautiful, apples were bountiful, and fun times were had by all! Enjoy the photos!
We ended our fantastic programming year last Sunday with games and fun in each classroom, and a celebration outside with bubbles and ice cream! Please enjoy the photos from this joyous day, and scroll down for a quick video and video slideshow!
WCUC children & youth led us in a wonderful service on June 3rd. See some highlights below!
To celebrate the upcoming Minute Man March on May 5th, our combined Multiage and Middler Sunday school classes met on Sunday to celebrate our abilities, disabilities and VisitAbility! Visitability is a term used to describe a measure of a place’s ease of access for people with disabilities. We acted out a story about a young girl named Libby who used a wheelchair, and after her best friend moved to a new house, she wasn’t able to go visit her because there were stairs up to every entrance and the bathroom doorways were too narrow. But instead of feeling sad and frustrated and powerless (and invisible), Libby fought for VisitAbility in her neighborbood – successfully lobbying to build a new housing development with VisitAble houses for people of all abilities! She dreamed she had a Cape of VisitAbility that allowed her to fly all over the world, and all the other children had capes too!
To measure the visitAbility in our own church, our children split up into four teams on a scavenger hunt throughout our building? Do you know how many visitAble entrances we have? Do you know how many visitAble bathrooms we have? What accommodations do we make for people with visual and hearing impairments? What else could we be doing to make our building and community more visitAble?
After our scavenger hunt, we explored writing in Braille and the children then started creating their own Capes of VisitAbility to wear during the Minute Man March. We will continue painting these capes this coming Sunday, along with welcoming two very special visitors from Minute Man Arc who will come talk to us about their experiences. Come VISIT us on Sunday to learn more!
Take a peek into the Multiage class from this past Sunday as we celebrated the Easter resurrection story! Here’s what we were up to:
Enjoy all the photos of our wonderful Easter celebration!
On Maundy Thursday we gathered for a simple supper and communion in North Hall, travelled to explore prayer stations in the sanctuary, and ended with shared prayer and song. Thanks to all the cooks, servers, musicians, cleaner-uppers, and many other helpers who made it possible!
Palm Sunday presented an incredible opportunity for children of all ages to explore the stories of Holy Week together, so the teachers decided to create a free-flowing, open door format that allowed our children and youth to engage in a variety of activities across a variety of classrooms. And it was a wonderful success! After a whole-group opening with darkness, silence, story, and candles (including a trick candle!), the children were free to explore in four different classes: painting kindness rocks in the Youth room, building Jerusalem and playing games in the Preschool/K room, dancing in the Middler room, and art explorations and prayer reflections in North Hall. There are a LOT of pictures documenting all the experiences of all the children – please enjoy them all!
Thanks to our musicians and teachers for guiding us and to David for capturing these photos!
Take a look at these photos of all ages worship from March 4th!
On Ash Wednesday, we gathered for dinner, fellowship, and several forms of prayer. See photos below!