Closing (5 minutes)
Materials for Activity
- Altar or centering table
- Cloth for covering altar or centering table
- Chalice and candle
- Chalice extinguisher
- Copies of the Taking It Home section for this workshop for all participants
- A copy of the closing words you want to use
Preparation for Activity
- Review the Taking It Home section for this workshop and decide which extension activities you will encourage participants to do.
- Download the Taking It Home section to your computer, customize it for your group, and print out and photocopy it.
- Review the closing words. Decide whether you wish to use these, or another closing. Print out a copy of the closing words you will use. Place your copy of the closing words near the chalice.
Description of Activity
Gather participants around the altar or centering table. Affirm the good work that participants have done in this workshop.Hand out the Taking It Home section you have prepared. Invite participants to "take the workshop home" and explain the activities, as needed. Be sure to be inclusive of people with a variety of living situations—living alone, with a significant other, in a family, with housemates, etc.—in the way you explain the Taking-It-Home activities.
Invite participants to rise in body or spirit and join hands. Then, read aloud the closing words:
We give thanks for the transformative powers
at work in each one of us and in our congregation.
May we trust our powers and know the difference we can make
in the lives of one another.
May we live to make our dreams true.
Extinguish the chalice. Thank and dismiss participants.
Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.
