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		<title>HELP FOR HAITI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can children do to reach out to children whose lives are impacted by a disaster? Many, many things, we are discovering. Our children surprise us with the level of their compassion and willingness to put forth effort to make a difference. The children who attend the Children’s Chapel at Seattle Unity are reaching out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2010/03/08/help-for-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Our Unbirthday Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Each year on the Sunday before Labor Day, and often on the Sunday after New Years Day, I plan an unbirthday party for the children at church. This is one of their favorite events.   Here’s  run-down of how ours went this year.   As the children starting arriving I told each one that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/09/09/our-unbirthday-party/</link>
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		<title>Seattle Unity Church Picnic 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when the sky opens and the rain pours down in buckets just when you are getting set up for the yearly church picnic at Denney Park? At Seattle Unity the volunteers, under the leadership of Jeannie Strawn and Rymii Kiao, recreated all the features of the successful picnics of past years by moving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/07/14/seattle-unity-church-picnic-2009/</link>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year I had several good ideas for Father’s Day gifts for the children to make on Sunday. That’s unusual because usually I don’t have even one.  My first idea was a jar full of affirmation strips. The kids would decorate a baby food jar, including the lid. They would then roll up strips of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/07/13/fathers-day-2009/</link>
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		<title>Moving Up Sunday 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  No other Sunday that I plan evokes the range of feelings in me than the Sunday we honor the children and youth for their growth and development. I am awed by the movement of Spirit in each one as they get bigger, accomplish more, acquire new knowledge and blossom each in their own way. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/07/13/moving-up-sunday/</link>
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		<title>Mark Stanton Welch at Seattle Unity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An incredibly awesome opportunity presented itself after the Youth Team Conference in January. Realizing that Mark Stanton Welch would be in Washington for the Unitreat at Cispus in June, I checked to see if he’d like to come to Seattle Unity to do some music and/or some healing work. He said “yes!” and so we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/07/13/mark-stanton-welch-at-seattle-unity/</link>
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		<title>Music to My Ears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryan, a new boy came to Children’s Chapel on Sunday.  Ryan’s grandma brought him. He fit right in and seemed to have a great time. At the end of the service, his grandma asked him if he would like to come again. He nodded his head “yes” very eagerly and said he really would. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/05/28/music-to-my-ears/</link>
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		<title>Happy Mother’s Day 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children love creating surprises for their moms so on Sunday we warmly greeted the moms as they dropped off their children but quickly shooed them out of the Children’s Chapel. The children got busy assembling gifts for their mothers. No peeking, moms!   Their project made use of a collection of small wooden spoons I’d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/05/14/happy-mother%e2%80%99s-day-2009/</link>
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		<title>Bleach Blessing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the swine flu so prominently in the news, the staff and volunteers in the Youth and Family Ministry program wondered how our Unity families would react. Would they stay home? Would they mention their concern?   We did what we do each week. Each Sunday afternoon we wipe all hard surfaces and toys with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/05/07/bleach-blessing/</link>
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		<title>Toddlers Galore!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first came to Seattle Unity about four and a half years ago, the nursery/toddler room was actually scary. Among other things it was in the farthermost distant room in the whole church, downstairs in the basement and down a winding hallway. It was dismal and dreary. Most parents were uncomfortable leaving their little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://childsspirit.com/blog/2009/04/27/toddlers-galore/</link>
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