Participants embark on a pilgrimage of faith, exploring how Unitarian Universalism translates into life choices and everyday actions. In each session, they hear historic or contemporary examples of Unitarian Universalist faith in action. Stories about real people model how participants can activate their own personal agency – their capacity to act faithfully as Unitarian Universalists – in their own lives, and children have regular opportunities to share and affirm their own stories of faithful action. Through sessions structured around the Unitarian Universalist Principles, Faithful Journeys demonstrates that our Principles are not a dogma, but a credo that individuals can affirm with many kinds of action. Over the course of the program, children discover a unity of faith in the many different ways Unitarian Universalists, including themselves, can act on our beliefs.

All sessions include hands-on activities as well as guided discussion, reflection, and self-expression to engage participants with various learning styles.  Each session of this program includes rituals: sharing opening words, a chalice-lighting, centering in silence before hearing a story, and singing.

Faithful Journeys will:

• Strengthen participants' Unitarian Universalist identity through exploration of people from our faith heritage and our contemporary communities whose actions have expressed their faith and our Principles and promoted positive change
• Help participants recognize and develop their capacity to be agents for positive change in the world
• Highlight ways the small and large choices we make represent our personal faith and beliefs
• Teach participants to understand our Unitarian Universalist Principles and apply them to faithful actions in their own lives
• Promote understanding of, and sense of responsibility for, the world's interconnectedness, and reinforce cooperation, nonviolence, and balance as necessary for our collective moral, ethical, and spiritual health
• Engage participants physically as well as mentally and spiritually through Move It! activities
• Foster the creation of a learning community in which everyone is respected, welcomed and honored — a community in which diversity is embraced, justice is practiced, and children learn, grow and have fun together.

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