Adult Faith Formation

At Unity Church, adult faith formation is a double helix, with strands of faith formation and antiracist multiculturalism joined together to build a more loving and effective life. Director of Membership and Hospitality Laura Park and congregant Angela Wilcox introduce this double helix. 

This page offers you practices that can help you build that loving and effective life: within, among, and beyond. Ready to develop practice for your own double helix? This worksheet can help you get started. 

WITHIN

Develop a personal spiritual practice that helps you find and keep your balance.

Personal spiritual practice

Attend Worship
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Join a Chalice Circle

​Participate in the Wellspring Program
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Do Spiritual Direction
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Teach Children’s Religious Education

Personal antiracist multicultural practice

​Take the Intercultural Development Inventory

Create an IDP (Intercultural Development Plan).

​Alfonso Wenker from Team Dynamics talks about why set goals in this way and suggests a practice of noticing. 

AMONG

Develop the skills of small group intimacy that let you go deep quickly with strangers.

Practice among us that help us go deep quickly

Small group practices in a Chalice Circles and Fellowship Groups.

Opening practices in our meetings:
Lighting a chalice
Doing an opening reading
Checking in with one another

​Pilgrimage
Transylvania, Boston, Bolivia
Sacred sites in the Twin Cities

Antiracist multicultural practice among us

​Anti-Racism Literacy Partners
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Minister of Faith Formation KP Hong talks about the presence we can bring to this work among us and how we can be with the discomfort together.

Alfonso Wenker from Team Dynamics talks about how this is heart work, not head work.
This graphic represents the practices that emerged during small group discussions at SoulWork.

BEYOND

Let the compassion that rises from doing your work within and among lead you to bless the world.

Bless the world with prophetic ministry

​Our beyond practices live right at the intersection of the double helix, as prophetic ministry that enlists antiracist multiculturalism:

​Engage with Community Outreach Ministry Teams. Serve as a Worship Associate, Teaching Associate, Chalice Circle facilitator, Congregational Care Associate, board member, Welcome Team member. 

Bless the world as an antiracist multiculturalism practice

Bring your Unitarian Universalist faith identity and values to your whole life and the way you live it.​