Dear OUUC Families,
Our brand-new Religious Education classroom wing has been going up since last summer, and now it is actually time to do some remodeling on our existing classrooms and finish up what is going to be a wonderful new space for us all.
But – we aren’t going to get to that new space without some disruption, and we’ve just been notified by the contractors that we won’t be able to use our classrooms at all in February, and possibly for two weeks of March.
After surveying families and checking our options, the Transition Team and I have decided we need to just shut-down RE for this month. In the meantime, please bring your children to worship services. I will have Fidget Bags for them, and we’ll be making an effort to make the services more child-friendly.
The nursery will still be available, for children 0-4 years old. Because the space is small and limited, we will be enforcing that age-limit.
The 1st-3rd grade curriculum Superheroes: Bible People, will be photocopied and sent home so families can do those lessons at home if they wish. The 4th-6th grade curriculum Journey to Jerusalem will be resumed after the space is available again.
Middle School and High School groups have their own special arrangements, so check on those if you have children in those groups.
I hope we will have some kind of party (such as skating or bowling) scheduled this month, so the kids get a chance to see their friends and have some fellowship time. More details TBD.
Thank you all for your flexibility and patience. As inconvenient as this is, we are so close to being done with a building project that has been years in the planning, and we can all look forward to that fabulous new space being available soon!
Sara Lewis, DRE
Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation
