First Sundays for Families - Theme of Creation/Creativity

Come at 9 am to be part of the All-Ages Pop Up Choir (no experience/reading skills necessary)
 

Are You Feeling Creative? 
 
Creativity requires believing that we have the power to make and to shape reality. Therefore, creativity can be a powerful antidote to our feelings of helplessness and victimization. Even if all we can create is a note to someone we love or dinner for ourselves, taking creative action helps us remember more of who we are.
 
Mark Nepo writes, “Creativity never leaves us. Its call simply keeps changing.”
 
As systems and institutions are being challenged and beginning to crumble, I am eager to focus attention on what we want to create, as individuals and as a community.

Again, Mark Nepo, “For every wholehearted leaning in, life leans back into us, bringing us more alive. Just as we need oxygen to breathe, we need the creative flow to keep our heart alive.”

On this first Sunday of October, we will invoke the creative flow that keeps our hearts alive.
 
I hope to see you there!   

Barbara 

This Month's Art Project: 

We are all born with a seed inside us.  A seed full of potential and power.  Many indigenous cultures teach that the purpose of our lives is to tend to that seed, so that it can flourish.  With guidance from Kim Puckett of CASS, children and youth will explore this idea through a creative project. 

Kim Puckett, founder of CASS is a lifelong maker and community builder rooted in the Pacific Northwest. She has a Master’s in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education from Lewis & Clark College. She and her husband Brian moved to Skamania, Washington in 2016, where they live with their two dogs and two cats.

In 2019, Kim founded Expressatory, a creative studio offering workshops for all ages. When the pandemic closed its doors, she reimagined its purpose—birthing the Community Art Studio of Skamania (CASS), a nonprofit dedicated to redistributing repurposed art materials and providing free and low-cost creative experiences throughout the Gorge.

Kim’s artistic practice centers on exploration of many mediums, but her true passion lies in sharing—supplies, skills, and the joy of making. Through CASS and CASS Mobile Art, she continues to nurture connection, healing, and creative equity.

Spiritual communities come in all shapes and stripes. If you're looking for a group of folks who live by deed, not creed, then come check out the Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at our First Sundays for Families services.

What is First Sundays for Families? Every first Sunday Service of the month is geared towards engaging young minds and hearts with age-appropriate topics along with an all-ages pop up choir open to all early comers. Sermons are based on our theme of the month with a story exploring that theme for kids, along with a Children’s Guide who will give kids the opportunity to play and engage downstairs while the service finishes up. Service begins at 10 am, but come at 9 am to join the Pop Up Choir for People of All Ages. No need to be able to read music or words, just come at 9 am to learn the song and then sing during service!

We are also collecting responses to our Family Needs Survey. If you can please fill out our survey and share this link with other local families, it will go a long way towards informing our future family-focused programming. LINK: tinyurl.com/HRFAMILIES

More information on the Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship can be found at mcuuf2.org