A New Gardening Project
This year, as we prepare to host Framingham’s Indigenous People’s Day celebration in October, we will transform our herb garden boxes into a small “Three Sister’s Garden.”
The garden will draw upon Native American traditional gardening methods, planting corn, beans, and squash together in mounds. The corn provides a stalk on which the beans can climb; the beans provide nitrogen; the squash creates a ground cover that controls weeds and keeps the soil moist.
The garden will be planted in stages, beginning with the corn, followed by the beans and eventually the squash. Our young people will plant and tend the garden throughout the summer.
Confirmation
Over the last eight months, our Youth Spiritual Exploration group has been meeting monthly. We’ve played silly get-to-know-you games. We’ve talked about friendship, forgiveness, and grace. We’ve talked about our favorite super-heroes and how Jesus turns the idea of superhero upside down. We’ve explored artwork depicting Jesus, noticing which ones resonate and which ones we find jarring. Some of us attended the Family Service Project Trip.
Out of our experience this year, two of our young people – Celia Whiteman and Larkin Whitehurst – have chosen to be confirmed. With their mentors, they are preparing Expression of Spiritual Exploration and participating in a service project. On Sunday, June 14, we will confirm them in a special, joyous worship service.
Youth Spiritual Exploration
Sunday, May 31 – 5:30-7 pm (note different time)
Sunday, June 14 – 10 am Confirmation