Adult Faith Development Upcoming Classes - November
Estate Planning for Unitarian Universalists
55% of adult Americans do not have a will. If you die without an estate plan, the state will decide what happens to your estate. No one’s “estate” is too small that you don’t need (or shouldn’t have) a plan. Estate planning does not have to cost a fortune! Planned giving is a great way to support the charities that are near and dear to your heart. In particular, there are great vehicles to support the future of TJMC by making gifts to the Endowment Fund. This can be a simple bequest or through gift arrangements that provide you with income now, throughout your life. Come prepared to take notes and bring your questions!
Leaders: Rosalie Simari, Stephanie Lowenhaupt, and Art Sherwood
Rosalie and Stephanie will give an overview of estate planning and Art, a retired Estate Attorney, will give information on wills, charitable gift annuities and pooled income funds.
Location: Social Hall
Date: November 19
Times: 10-11:30 AM
Fee: $5
Number of participants: 5 minimum
Bringing it Home: Creating a Rich Home Environment for the Young Child
Are you the parent of a young child (0-6) or an expectant parent? Would you like to know more about how to make your home a warm, loving, nurturing place for you and your young ones?
Come join in this exploration of both Montessori and Waldorf approaches to early childhood. The first session will include a brief introduction to the Montessori and Waldorf approaches to early childhood and the second will offer practical ways to blend these approaches to create a rich, peaceful, and empowering home environment for young children. Come and learn simple, wonderful techniques that you can employ in your own home and make some new friends and connections… and bring your questions!
Leaders: Cynthia Jordan Fisher is an AMI Montessori Assistant to Infancy (birth to 3 years), DONA certified Postpartum Doula, teaches parent/infant and toddler classes and has a small Montessori Infant Community program in Ivy. Dianne Bearinger is an experienced Waldorf Preschool Teacher, Parent-Toddler Teacher, DONA Certified Postpartum Doula, Home school Teacher and mother. Their work together blends these two wonderful approaches to early childhood.
Location: Parlor
Dates: Saturdays November 5 & 12
Times: 10 AM-NOON
Fee: $10
Number of participants: 5 minimum, 30 maximum
Simply Pray
In 2005, Skinner House Books published Simply Pray: a Modern Spiritual Practice to Deepen Your Life. In this book Rev. Erik proposes a particularly Unitarian Universalist approach to prayer — a functional, structural approach that allows each practioner to bring her or his own theological colorings to a practice that can be as easily adopted by Atheists as Zoroastrians. Come and learn more. [Participants will have the opportunity to create their own UU Prayer Beads.]
Leader: Erik Walker Wikstrom
Erik Walker Wikstrom is the newly settled minister of TJMC. Before this he has served two other UU congregations for a combined total of approximately thirteen years, and served for three years on the UUA staff in Boston. He brings a passion for our faith and its history, and a certainty that knowing where we’ve come from is an essential foundation for building our future.
Location:
Date: Wednesday, November 16
Times: 7-9 PM
Fee: free of charge
Number of participants: 4 minimum, 20 maximum
Pre-Holiday Renewal for Body & Spirit
Come join together for two hours on a Saturday afternoon to pause and reflect on the values that will guide you through the holiday season and touch base with your body so you can honor it during this coldest, darkest time of year. Alex McGee, TJMC’s Ministry Associate, who has also been teaching yoga for many years and practicing contemplative prayer in groups, will lead simple movements, shared reading for prayerful reflection, questions for journaling or drawing, and simple chanting.
Leader: Alexandra McGee
Alex, has a Masters of Divinity from the UU seminary Starr King School for Ministry, with an emphasis in pastoral care, Sanskrit, and Hindu theology. She serves as our quarter-time Ministry Associate.
Location: Sanctuary
Date: Saturday November 19
Times: 1-3 PM
Fee: free of charge
Number of participants: 5 minimum, 50 maximum
Please register no later than November 15 so that we can plan accordingly.
Microwave Cooking Made Easy!
Learn to reduce the use of conventional stovetop cooking by switching to microwave cooking. It saves time, energy (both yours and electrical and gas energy) and is safer for young children to be around. You can use the same dish to cook, serve, and store food. No more washing pots and pans! Bring 3 favorite recipes to convert.
Leader: Johanna Woodchild
Johanna has been cooking exclusively with a microwave oven for the past 19 years.
Location: Main church kitchen
Date: Saturday, November 12 Time: 11-1 PM
Fee: $5
Number of participants: 1 minimum, 12 maximum
The full AFD Prospectus for fall 2011 is available. To register, see the form on the last page.
You may register online here.
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