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Parents may chose to celebrate the adoption of their son or daughter. Partners who have sadly decided to separate from each other may want to lift up that sad and difficult event within the arms of respectful ritual. Our teens go through a Coming of Age program which takes a year to complete. It is concluded by a moving ritual conducted and designed by the young folks themselves as part of their process. Some folks on their death bed have asked for rituals of blessing and reconciliation, and sometimes those who retire from their livelihoods request ceremonial marking of that transition.
You are welcome to talk with the ministers or lay leaders about any of these rituals, and how they have experienced them in their lives. We are congregation in the "free church" tradition, meaning that we are responsible for creating on our own the rituals that sanctify and uplift the transitions in our lives. You are welcome to become a part of that sacred, most human process.
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