Youth and Family

 EARTH DAY 2024
REDUCE   REUSE   RECYCLE
        REVEAL the BEAUTY
Dear Youth and Families,
     In honor of Earth Day, the Youth of VCSL are engaged in several projects dedicated to the Art of Recycling: Creative Transformations.  With donations of used “stuffies”, we are restuffing with washable “fill”, cleaning each and donating them to the VCSL Circle of Blessings as well as making gifts for friends and family.  Each child will be choosing one of these to take home.  Also, we are creating from discarded materials, fabric, boxes, ribbon etc. our own Recycling Friends.  We look forward to sharing a few of these with the congregation on Sunday.    The overall lesson is that there is beauty in the art of seeing things in a new way.  Something once considered junk, unimportant, useless, can become a Work of Art through the eyes of love and creative thought.  
We can apply this lesson to our lives and our relationships as well.  Let’s continue to see with new eyes and open hearts.
Love and Light,
Suzy and the Youth and Family Team

ABOUT OUR YOUTH PROGRAM

The Youth Program is open to all pre-school to high school ages and will feature a new curriculum developed by Suzy Thatcher, an educator with 33 years of classroom experience, and Bill Hadrys, RScP, who brings 15 years in Scouting leadership to the revitalized Sunday morning teachings. Suzy’s extensive educational background brings a passion for the arts and in combination with Bill’s love of nature and scouting; they are working together to create a supportive environment for our children so that the attributes of kindness and gratitude can emerge.

The children often get a chance to interact with our kindness ambassadors, Waldo and Emma (the bunnies!).  Kindness in caring for animals is an unconditional commitment and this empathy toward animals extends into other relationships.