Dear friends,

As we seem now to be deep in a political season based on creating division and false dichotomies of us versus them, I invite you to pause for a moment to consider how we, as a congregation, have bridged what seemed like divisions. 

We are literally reaching around the world to help keep people from slavery.  We are reaching our brothers and sisters in Flint to ensure that children have clean water and health care.  We are reaching out to brave visionaries who speak the truth about human unity.  In a season of false dichotomies, we are a congregation living a message of oneness.

There is another area where we must now reach across and build bridges: and that is our youngest members.  We speak so often of delight in welcoming families with young children, and now I invite you to walk this talk by offering just one hour to our youngest members.  In the upcoming weeks, Sarah and I will be asking every member (who has been in the congregation for at least 6 months per our Safe Congregation Policy) to spend 1 hour with our delightful youngest members.

We live in a world where we are taught about division, divisiveness and lack of reaching across boundaries.  We are a UU congregation, countercultural, and bridge builders!

Thank you for your amazing generosity in helping model for the world in both talk and walk how to explore the "unity" in Unitarian.