"TAKE BACK YOUR TIME"
 

"Take Back Your Time" is a collaboration between the Massachusetts Council of Churches and the national "Take Back Your Time Day" organization.   The aim of Take Back Your Time  is to draw attention to imbalances in work and leisure in American cultural life.   It offers a special opportunity for MCC congregations to engage in theological reflection and personal practice relating to Sabbath observance. 

Choose four windows of time between October 24, Take Back Your Time Day, and December 31, 2007 to:

• rest body and mind

• reflect on life's deeper meaning

• reconnect with family, friends, and community

• reclaim time

• revive energy for life

• renew your relationship with Jesus Christ

• recreate balance

The materials below will help in planning four windows of time.
 

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Materials will enclosed in our Fall "Intersect"and will l be mailed to local churches in ample time to make good use of them during Take Back Your Time Day on October 24 through the end of December, 2008.  

Please give us your feedback  by completing this survey.

   Please use this bulletin insert for your congregation.  It includes spiritual reflections, social justice analysis, bibliography and ideas for follow-up.

Display this poster in your church to inspire you congregation to participate in "Take Back Your Time" day on October 24.

These are additional materials from 2005 and a handout from 2006 that may also be of use for your congregations.

Sample Press Release for churches, clergy associations and councils of churches.

Read a report on the ways some of your colleagues have implemented this program.

If you want to give increased visibility to Take Back Your Time/Take Four Windows of Time, here is a proclamation you can invite your mayor and/or local government officials to endorse.

Time Poverty Fact Sheet

Ideas for families to take back your time offered by the Massachusetts Council of Churches

Sermons and Meditations

For additional posters and information visit http://www.timeday.org/four_windows.asp

                For additional information visit www.timeday.org