Cottage Party Notes 7
Yearn For Spiritual Development
• Activities for intergenerational participation
Church movie gatherings/church socials
• Happy with RE Kids program, especially the diversity of topics
• Adult RE Programs
Exciting, meaningful
Wish for more diversified schedule
• Ongoing collection of Spiritual Questions as a resource for Spiritual Development topics
• Enjoy the Format of Cottage Parties. Perhaps as a variation on covenant groups there could be regular gatherings involving ritual, prayer and a topic (perhaps from the above resource


Yearn for Community Presence
• Is there, could there be a Social Justice Committee?
• How IS our Voice expressed to the larger community?
• How express our moral values
• Don’t let the “right wing” claim higher spiritual/moral ground
• Ad campaign to get the word out about who we are, what we represent


Blue Cards
It might be useful to have a shorter newsletter that came out twice a month
For community outreach, our church could be a destination place for Harvard Square and Cambridge
• Exhibits of early Cambridge history
• Community bulletin board
• Start/end point for public walks and tours
• Wish there was more integrity in appreciating traditions. Many times feeling culturally amputated, or that it’s a “check-off” that we’ve included something, regardless of how much we might have missed the essence of it.
• More opportunities to connect spiritually with nature
• More lay involvement in church services (families/couples/individuals) doing readings or lighting the chalice regularly
• No Easter Bunny in the Church Service on Easter
- posted by Bruce Hoppe @ 2:58 PM