United Church of Christ
United in Spirit and inspired by God’s grace, we welcome all, love all, and seek justice for all.
The Minnesota Conference United Church of Christ (UCC) equips a courageous Church alive with Christ’s transforming love.
Three Wonderings
1
I wonder about a time when you felt you were not enough? I wonder how you found strength, courage, or self-compassion to make it through?
2
I wonder about a time when you have experienced the danger and smallness of the world? I wonder where you saw truth and love show up at these times.
3
I wonder what Jesus’ willingness to make the ultimate big risk for the sake of love, and truth, and justice teaches us about God? About ourselves?
Caring for the Common Good Project
Decorate and Share Tear Off Posters
Inspire your whole community to do big things for the world, one small action at a time. Print your favorite posters from this collection. Invite students to decorate tear-off posters and share them on public cork boards around your community.
Materials: Choose among 8 unique poster designs, Markers, crayons, or colored pencils, Scissors
How to: Decorate posters!
- Brainstorm ideas to fill the blank tabs
- Share completed posters throughout your community
Contemplative Movement
Outdoor Explore
What:
- Hold hands as you walk wherever the Spirit leads.
- Notice how it feels to be held and guided by Love.
- Wonder: toward what “something big” might Love lead you, if you developed the courage to follow?
- How might you speak truth, share love, and overflow with grace to live into the something big toward which God is calling you?
Creative Project
Breaking Unity Bread
Materials: Whole wheat & white flour, baking powder & salt, olive or canola oil & hot water, honey & molasses, mixing bowl & measuring utensils, baking pan & oven
How to: Bake Unity Bread with this recipe.
- Offer gratitude for each of the elements and humans that contributed to the ingredients and baking.
- Explore how this unity is an expression of Divine Love.
- Share bread saying words like, “This is Love, baked, broken, and shared for you.”
Books
The Empty Pot by Demi
The Blessing of Grace by The Rev. William Sloane Coffin
May God give you the grace never to sell yourself short;
Grace to risk something big for something good; and
Grace to remember the world is now
too dangerous for anything but the truth and
too small for anything but love.