This page was updated 11/12/2009

Nursery Care is available from 9:45 AM to 12:15 PM.

Conversations on Youth RE

If you’re a parent of a middle school age child, you’re invited to join a conversation on a new RE class being planned for them beginning in January.  We’ll meet in the Choir Room during social hour on Sunday, November 22.  So, bring your coffee and snack and bring your adolescent children along with you.  We want to learn what interests you have and how you'd like to help.  Maggie Thorn is helping set up the program and recruit teachers, so let her know if you’d like to get involved.

Creating Home (ages 4-6)

A Tapestry of Faith Program

This program helps children develop a sense of home that is grounded in faith.  The children will explore questions about the purpose of having a home and the functions a home serves for us as humans and for other animals.  The program speaks of home as a place of belonging and explores the roles each of us play in the homes where we live.  It introduces the concept of our congregation as a “faith home” which shares some characteristics with a family home.  Like a family home, a faith home offers its members certain joys, protections, and responsibilities.

The sessions include stories from Unitarian Universalist and other traditions, hands-on activities to make learning accessible to individuals with various learning styles, and structured opportunities for questioning, reflecting, and self-expression.  The program introduces children to our Unitarian Universalist heritage including rituals, songs, traditions of our faith, and stories about Unitarian Universalists whose words, songs, and deeds have helped to shape the faith home that participants share.

Moral Tales (ages 2nd to 6th grade)

A Tapestry of Faith Program

Every day, our children go forth into a complex world where they are often faced with difficult decisions and situations.  Moral Tales attempts to provide children with the spiritual and ethical tools they will need to make choices and take actions reflective of their Unitarian Universalist beliefs and values.  The three units focus on seeking truth/discernment, considering what love would do, and bringing justice to the larger world.

Each session has a central story in which participants meet real and fictional heroes and heroines who have displayed moral courage and spiritual greatness.  The stories draw upon many of our Unitarian Universalist sources, portraying moral dilemmas and paths to goodness and justice through a variety of cultural and religious lenses.  Yet every story resonates with Unitarian Universalist principles and purposes which are intentionally integrated into the sessions.  In this way, participants will develop awareness and understanding of other religions as they strengthen their own identity as Unitarian Universalists.

All sessions include hands-on activities to make learning accessible to individuals with various learning styles as well as structured exercises for questioning, reflecting, and self-expression.

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