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1. Well, truth be told, I was drawn to the article — via UUpdates.net — by the title even before seeing who wrote or or before you mentioned me.

   As for the template: tell me more. Size, details.

   Comment by Scott Wells (Boy in the Bands) UGA '91 — August 25, 2008 #

2. I used to make my own, I’m a big fan of inserting tables in Word, and doing it myself created a focus on each week, as I typed in details (”Pentecost”, “School vacation week”).

   But for a more professional answer, there is always the UU administrator’s list-serve; they might have one.

   Comment by Elz — August 25, 2008 #

3. PB-

   I make a table in Word, but here’s my list, which might help you out.

   in peace,
   m

   Sept 7

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   Sept 28

   Oct 5

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   Nov 9

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   Nov 30

   Dec 7

   Dec 14

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   Dec 28

   Jan 4

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   Jan 25

   Feb 1

   Feb 8

   Feb 15

   Feb 22

   Mar 1

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   Mar 29

   Apr 5

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   Apr 26

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   June 7

   June 14

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   Aug 16

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   Aug 30

   Sept 6

   Comment by Michael — August 25, 2008 #

4. Ask a DRE. I guarantee any DRE at this time of year will have a crapload of Sundays-only templates for planning the curricula for all the RE classes. Mine are tables in Word, and I’d be happy to send them to you if you’d like - just email me. (thisgirlremembers at gmail dot com).

   Comment by ThisGirlRemembers — August 25, 2008 #

5. Excel would do this for you.

   Comment by Sara — August 26, 2008 #

6. I’m really tempted to write a little program that will figure out Sundays, and things like Easter too, for any year you give it, but I won’t have time to look at it for a few days.

   I got that you wanted 2008-9 but when exactly did you want your year to start? Beginning of September so it’s sort of academic year rather than e.g. Advent?

   Comment by Sarah — August 26, 2008 #

7. Huh! My comment from yesterday didn’t appear. I said that this post attracted me from UUpdates.net before seeing who wrote it or that my name was evoked.

   But what kinds of things did you want on the template? Size?

   Comment by Scott Wells (Boy in the Bands) UGA '91 — August 26, 2008 #

8. What, no liturgical seasons?

   Comment by Jane R — August 26, 2008 #

9. My first take: http://boyinthebands.com/archives/the-sunday-only-calendar/

   Comment by Scott Wells — August 26, 2008 #

10. We do an excel spreadsheet with all the info for Sundays - date, theme, music, RE, who’s doing announcements, reading, ushering, lighting chalice, etc. Then we print out only the cells needed for a particular group for meetings (worship cte, RE, etc.) - helps keep the staff coordinated and all our info in one place. I’ll email you this year’s sample.

    Comment by Rev. Perpetua — August 27, 2008 #

11. Back when I was doing the sacred work of the parish, especially the pulpit, I had a homemade grid with several categories for each Sunday: Common Lectionary, World Religions, Congregational Event, RE Event, UU History. World Events There are resources for each. This is my favorite link for interfaith calendar info:

    http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/ifpe9.08.htm

    UU history comes from Frank Schulman’s “This Day in Unitarian Universalist History,” from Skinner House.

    I made the grid with the Word function which says “Insert –> table” I then formatted the table with six columns and about twelve rows. I did not set up a grid with the whole year filled in, because I found it too detaching spiritually and overwhelming manually. Instead I tended to look ahead by quarters, and refresh at the beginning of each week.

    As the week wore on, and especially when it came time to write the sermon, I would look at this grid — which is quite busy much of the time — and cross out the categories that had not emerged as feeling high priority in parish life that week. Sometimes too many of them, of very different character, were all important and I tried to find a way to move some of them by drawing circles and arrows, with ideas for thematic bridges.

    When I was a DRE, the same grid was useful for the low attendance Sundays, such as school vacation weeks, when we needed to come up with special activities for multiple ages.

    Comment by Elz — August 27, 2008 #

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