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School of Service
We serve the servers.
Join our courses to up-level your service-directed life of purpose, with peers and mentors, in service to the Supreme Being.
In early 2022, Urantia University Institute’s Board was curious to embark upon the development of an untouched aspect of UUI’s mission: Service. That same year a generous award by the Crestwood Foundation made it possible to move forward with the School of Service and its beta course and emerging social transformation community network.
We are inspired by this admonition from paper 28, regarding what the revelators call the "privilege of service."
Service—purposeful service, not slavery—is productive of the highest satisfaction and is expressive of the divinest dignity. Service—more service, increased service, difficult service, adventurous service, and at last divine and perfect service—
is the goal of time and the destination of space.
The School of Service's motto is, "We serve the servers." Our courses and Service Leaders help you to identify your unique talents and give you guidance of how best to use them to add value to the Supreme Being. We are excited about serving with you!
A course in UUI's School of Service
Life on Purpose:
Living Service
highlighting
Art of Universal Language
Begins May 4, 2024
Are you ready to use your unique talents for the greater good in loving service?
Join your service peers in the upcoming 7-month course — May-November 2024. The Orientation is May 4. See below for more information.
You'll receive access to all the content from two UUI Self-Directed courses, Life on Purpose: Living Service and Art of Universal Language. You're also invited to join monthly, online gatherings to keep you forward-moving and held cheerfully accountable in your service-inspired life, with Service Leaders available to you for specialized guidance.
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Self-Directed course material is accessible at your convenience
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Monthly Zoom gatherings are held on the 4th Saturday of each month
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In-person service project activity is encouraged with peer empowerment and available mentorship
COURSE DETAILS
Orientation: May 4 at 9a PT / 10a MT / 11a CT / 12p ET
Monthly Sessions: May 25 - November 23, 2024 — On the 4th Saturday of each month
Time: 9a PT / 10a MT / 11a CT / 12p ET (90-min sessions)
Monthly Themes:
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May 25 - Preparing for Service / Preparing through Intention Setting
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June 22 - Service as an Individual / Existing in Full Presence
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July 27 - Service in & through Families / Awareness of Audience
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August 24 - Service to Friends & Co-Workers / Inquiry at the Fore
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September 28 - Service in Communities & through Careers / Consciousness of Universal Values
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October 26 - Service as a Global Citizen / Exchanging Language
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November 23 - Service Celebration!
Service Inspiration
With God the Father, sonship is the great relationship. With God the Supreme, achievement is the prerequisite to status – one must do something as well as be something. —UB 115:0:1
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. —Viktor E. Frankl
Religion influences social reconstruction directly because it spiritualizes and idealizes the individual citizen. Indirectly, cultural civilization is influenced by the attitude of these individual religionists as they become active and influential members of various social, moral, economic, and political groups. —UB 99:3.3
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. —Mahatma Gandhi
...the spiritual renaissance must wait for the coming of these new teachers of Jesus’ religion who will be exclusively devoted to the spiritual regeneration of humanity. And then these spirit-born souls will quickly supply the leadership and inspiration requisite for the social, moral, economic, and political reorganization of the world. —UB 195:9.4
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take the steps to greater service!
1. Register for the course!
2. Join the Orientation on May 4 or watch the recording provided after that date.
3. Before attending the first session on May 25, take the survey and begin contemplating your unique life on purpose: living service.
4. Review the course material before each month's Zoom gathering. The two courses are found in the Self-Directed Study section of UUI's online campus and will be available to registrants on May 4.
5. Join the monthly gatherings beginning May 25, each 4th Saturday of the month. The sessions are 90-minutes, featuring:
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A welcome + intention setting
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An introduction to the session’s theme
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Breakout rooms with a Service Leader
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A large group reflection discussion
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A Q&A for your service project
The final session in November is structured differently as a sharing circle, highlighting your service progress and project. Alumni and Service Leaders from the 2023 course will be invited as a reunion to share in the excitement!
6. In the time between the monthly Zoom gatherings, connect with the available Service Leaders and your class peers for questions and supportive empowerment!
Gatherings in
English
On-going Support
Service
Community
No pre-requisite
