UU Festival Outline

Welcome

• Intro to activity 1

• On the cards provided, using a single word or a single picture, name four things that completes the following statement, this fellowship is ?

• Hold onto your cards until after dinner.

Chalice Lighting: tonight, we celebrate the stories of our past, present and future. We begin by naming the founding members of this congregation.

Candle lighting: Ask people to light a candle for a past member who has made a difference in your life, if you can not name a past member, name someone who made a difference from your spiritual or religious past.

Activity

• Have your cards? (25minutes)

• Please stand and look for another group whose cards match yours as close as you can get. Children please do participate, younger ones may want to leave and play in the Beatrix Potter (room 1). We have stories and craft activities for you.

When you find a group, please sit with them; on newsprint please write a simple statement together that completes the following statement the First Unitarian Society of Westchester is? (10 minutes)

Continuum Questions:(10 minutes) True or False, Agree or disagree

UU Identity questions

UU Squares

Story of Flaming Chalice (read or tell one of versions of the origins of the flaming chalice) available at uua.org/faithworks

Closing Ritual/ extinguish the chalice, remind people in order to continue in our chosen faith, we need each person’s gifts to sustain us, may the light of religious community and freedom to choose continue to burn, May we continue to flourish, may we sustain a future together.