Spiritual Exploration
September 2023
Spiritual Exploration Leadership Changes
The Board was happy to announce that they have hired Tatum Barnes as the new Director of Spiritual Exploration.
He will bring the children to the SE classroom on Sundays during the service.
We all thank Monica for filling in over the last months.
She wrote:
Dear North Chapel Community,
Thank you so much for welcoming me as a part of your community and giving me the opportunity to work with, play with and laugh with our youngest friends here. It has been an honor to serve the North Chapel youth!
Lots of love, Monica
September 8, 2022
A Letter from Chloe Powell, Director of Spiritual Education
Dear Families,
It has been a pleasure to get to know the children and families of the North Chapel over the past year. This summer, many were away, but we had a lot of fun, mostly outdoors, learning and growing together-- growing our gardens! We had some competition to eat our food from the resident groundhogs on the property, but we have happy cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, zinnias, and even maple trees (ask Elliot about them) . When I was away a couple weeks, we had guest leader Adrian Tans, who many of the kids know from the Woodstock Library, who has been a great resource to me in finding books for our lessons.
This fall we’ll celebrate bounty and do some cooking projects together. We’ll do a focus on my favorite folktale “Stone Soup” in preparation for a play and stone soup celebration later in the season. This story teaches us the valuable lesson of sharing the little we have-- It is also story of improvising, and thinking outside the box.
If your kids are new to the program, or haven’t been in a long time, please come say hi before the service, so that we can make them more comfortable leaving with me. If you want to be in touch with me about attendance, my email is clovermont@gmail.com, and my cell number is 802-999-3391. It can be helpful to know who to expect for my planning purposes, however drop-ins and new friends are always a welcome surprise.
We hope to see you soon,
Chloe
OWL (Our Whole Lives) Grades 4-6 & 7-9
Our Whole Lives (OWL) is an age appropriate sexuality education curriculum that helps participants of all ages make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health and behavior.
We hope to be offering OWL at North Chapel soon. Stay tuned.
