Youth Curriculum, 9-24-23
Announcements:
Youth & Family is hosting our annual Sunday afternoon at the Pumpkin Patch. Families will meet up at Hunter Family Farm on Sunday October 15th at 1:00 and enjoy a fall harvest fun navigating a corn maze and a hay labyrinth, going on a wagon ride, jump and tumble on the jumping pillow, adventure on an ATV and enjoy hot cocoa or cider on us. Look for details in your email.
Curriculum Overview
Youth embrace the idea of Love as the answer to any circumstance and play fun games that help them identify what love is by expressing what love feels like to them.
2023 Theme: Living Out Loud!
September Monthly Theme: Love Out Loud
Week 4 Value: Love Wins!
Affirmation: I let myself be seen for the lovable spark of Creation that I am!
Spiritual Lesson: Love Wins!
When we deeply understand and accept that we can never be separate from the Source of All We Are, we are then free to enjoy our human relationships more completely and with less fear that they won’t last.” Rev. Kathryn Brenson
Love is a special feeling that is beyond just liking something or someone. We express Love in many ways, from how we speak with others or ourselves to the extra care and consideration we take when expressing love through our actions. Love is spoken with respect and kindness, and its touch is tender and gentle.
When you act out of love, you let others know they are important and cared for and that they make a difference in your life and the lives of others.
Active Listening: Book/Music/Video
Meditation: Five Minutes of Self Love guided meditation
Book: Pete the Cat’s Groovy Gide to Love by Kimberly and James Dean
Book: I am a Lovable Me, Affirmations for Children by Sharon Penchina
Music: “I Love Myself So Much!” from CSL Teen Camps
Creative Expression – Back To School Spiritual Tool #4 – The Feelings of Love
We play a game where everyone is assigned an animal, and they find friends by sound who have similar animal characteristics. In their groups, they think of someone they love and describe how they feel when they are with that person. Each group shares their set of feelings, and we discuss how each group’s feelings are the same or different. We conclude with an I AM… statement to remind the youth to focus on the feelings of love to support them in the coming week.
Connecting/Spiritual Practice: Love Pizza
Love Pizza – we will draw pizza pie slices with markers, and in each slice, fill it up with words, pictures, or stickers that represent the qualities you identified from the group activity game we played.