Wellspring Wednesday

​Wellspring Wednesday at Unity Church has long been a multi-generational opportunity to gather midweek at church for food, fellowship, and fun. While the church building remains closed due to the pandemic, we are unable to share a meal together but we continue to gather online for programming. Multi-generational chapel services are prerecorded and posted on the church’s YouTube channel each Wednesday for viewing anytime that afternoon or later; and Unity’s Religious Education program offers Our Whole Lives (OWL) classes for youth and periodic Tweens gatherings on Wednesday evenings starting in September.
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For adults, one or two live online programs each Wednesday will begin at 7:00 p.m., offering enrichment, spiritual practice and fellowship. I hope you’ll join us. If you haven’t yet participated in an online program using Zoom, church staff can help you get started. Descriptions and registration links for September’s programs are listed below. (Unless otherwise noted, you can use the registration link right up until the program starts to participate.) Also watch your daily email from the church for additional program options that may be announced as the month unfolds. 

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Wellspring Wednesday Offerings

October 21 • 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Restoring Broken Trust: Congregational Approaches to Reparations with Indigenous Peoples
Register: http://bit.ly/repairingbrokentrust
An evening of learning and conversation with presenter Jim Bear Jacobs, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation and cultural facilitator working to raise public awareness of American Indian causes and injustices. He is founder/convener of “Healing Minnesota Stories” and its Sacred Sites Tours  and serves as parish associate at Church of All Nations Presbyterian Church.

The Great College Search
Register: http://bit.ly/greatcollegesearch 
Can’t tell the SAT from the ACT? Got your Wheatons mixed up? Experiencing FAFSA freak-out? For high school families, finding a college can be a stressful for the whole family. Learn how to optimize the process and become a critical consumer of colleges. The four weeks will cover these topics:

• October 7: Getting ready for the college quest. Conducting a search.
• October 14: Creating a list of schools. Applying to the schools you select.
• October 21: Financial aid basics.
• October 28: Competitive Colleges: What, Why (or Why Not), and How

Sessions will consist of presentations (up to 75 minutes) followed by question and answer sessions and are for high school students and/or parents who are currently in or interested in starting a college search and application process. We’ll also try to raise up topics that might be of special interest to Unitarian Universalist searchers.

Unity Church member Craig Allen is a certified college admissions counselor and a member of the Higher Education Consultants Association (HECA) and the Minnesota Association for College Admission Counseling (MACAC).

October 28 • 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Housing for All: A Justice Issue
Register: http://bit.ly/housingjusticeforall
Join Rev. Rob Eller-Isaac and Beacon Organizer Elizabeth Tannen for a discussion about faith-based housing justice and the work that Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative is doing to address the escalating catastrophe of unhoused and unsheltered people in our communities. Learn about opportunities to support more permanent supportive housing as well as to advance statewide solutions. You’ll be offered space for dialogue and listening on how housing intersects with racial justice and land justice in Minnesota.

The Great College Search: Competitive Colleges
Register: http://bit.ly/greatcollegesearch