Community and Service
Bridges Program
Building Community Through Service
Everyone is part of a community. You’re in community at school, in your neighborhood, among your friends, within the city, and at church. In this milestone you will focus on learning about the communities you are in and finding creative ways to serve within your communities.
What do I need to do?
You have seven goals made up of 12 learning experiences to complete in this milestone. If you complete a learning experience for one goal, it counts for that goal only (so, no double counting!). Everyone who achieves this milestone needs to complete four core learning experiences: Lay Leader, Service Learning, Volunteering & Community Service, and UU Service Committee.
Take a look at the list of learning experiences and mark the ones you might be interested in.
3.1 Learn the skills necessary to live in a diverse community including service, conflict resolution, caring, relationship building, compassion, and acceptance. (complete at least two)
☐ Art of Communication
☐ Assertiveness
☐ Caring for people
☐ Caring (overview)
☐ Celebrate Everyone
☐ Creating Peace
☐ Dealing with Conflict
☐ Dealing with Difference
☐ Emotions and Expressions
☐ Encouraging Others
☐ Healthy Communities
☐ Healthy Relationships
☐ Healthy Schools
☐ Letter writing
☐ Men in Community
☐ Organizing Organizations
☐ Problem Solving
☐ Public Speaking
☐ Roberts Rules of Order
☐ Social Work
☐ Women in Community
☐ Youth in Community
3.2 Be committed to service within our church community and understand the role that service and lay leaders play in the daily life of our church. (complete at least two)
☐ Lay Leader (required)
☐ Celebrate our Congregation
☐ Church Administration
☐ Church Finances
☐ Church Life
☐ Church Music
☐ Congregational Topics
☐ Ministry
☐ Worship Leader
☐ Worship Music
☐ Worship (overview)
3.3 Be familiar with our local community and demonstrate commitment to service within the city of Detroit. (complete at least one)
☐ Being Neighborly
☐ Community Groups
☐ Celebrate Detroit
☐ Detroit History
☐ Outdoor Fun Detroit
☐ UUs in Detroit
3.4 Know how to organize and carry out service learning projects. Experiment with building and sustaining a project.
☐ Service Learning (required)
3.5 Demonstrate commitment to community service on a regional, national and international level. (complete at least two)
☐ Canadian Friends
☐ Celebrate Michigan
☐ Celebrate America
☐ Celebrate North America
☐ Citizenship
☐ Community Issues
☐ International Organizations
☐ Michigan History
☐ Outdoor Fun Michigan
☐ World Community
3.6 Complete at least five community service projects that are reflective of UU principles. (Complete at least three)
q Volunteering & Community Service (required)
☐ Fighting Able-ism
☐ Fighting Homophobia
☐ Fighting Poverty
☐ Fighting Racism
☐ Fighting Sexism
☐ Fighting Xenophobia
3.7 Be familiar with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and complete at least one project which is connected to their current work.
☐ UU Service Committee (required)