This church year our elementary school age children will be exploring the UUA Tapestry curriculum Moral Tales at their 11:20 class during our service. This program is one of the new curricula from the UUA Faith Development program called Tapestry. Tapestry is a series of curricula that spans the age groups from toddlers to adults and is available on line at the UUA website, uua.org.
Moral Tales prepares children for our complex world by providing them with moral and ethical tools based on our Unitarian Universalist values. The first five sessions contain the "Seeking Truth/Discernment" thread. During these classes children will learn to listen to their inner voices with guidance from our teachers. The second six sessions contain the "What Would Love Do?" thread. Here children will practice using loving decision-making tools. These classes focus on relationships with ourselves, each other, and our world, including our Earth. The final five session contain the "Wider World" thread. These classes focus on taking action and incorporating goodness and justice into their lives and relationships.
We chose this curriculum because we are an intergenerational community of learners. Our youth and adult program also contain classes that focus on relational tools to better connect us to each other through love and justice.
Our adults are exploring Building The World We Dream About, which is an anti-racism, multicultural program. Through this test curriculum they are examining themselves, our church, and our world through the eyes of many cultures. Our youth are exploring How Do I Fit Into This Church. By exploring the structure of our church they are becoming more familiar with how they are and can become more connected to each other and other age groups here at Throop.
