Welcome families!
Our Religious Education classes and meetings teach our Unitarian Universalist principles and values, and promote understanding of world religions.
Children and Youth will begin each Sunday in the sanctuary then leave after the Time For All Ages. They will proceed to Room 10 for Children’s Chapel, Choir Practice, Pageant Practice, Social Justice Work, or Community Building with the Coordinator of Religious Education or Lead Volunteer Helper while the teachers are able to remain in the worship service until 11:15 (approximately the end of the sermon).
Classes are held from 11:15-12:00 in classrooms. Parents are welcome to visit with the adults after service until classes have ended.
It’s Time to Register for the 2026–27 RE Year!
It’s time to register children and youth for the upcoming Religious Education (RE) year. Please complete a registration form for each child or youth in your family.
Youth are encouraged to complete their own registration forms as an opportunity to practice taking responsibility for their personal information. Mistakes are no problem—the form can always be reviewed and updated together.
Please complete all registrations by Wednesday, August 19. We know this is one more form to add to the pile, and we greatly appreciate you taking the time to complete it. Early registration helps get the year organized and ensures that families receive the right information.
A Few Important Notes
- Please register your child even if they are younger and may not regularly attend RE yet. Having everyone registered helps create accurate age groups and ensures information reaches the appropriate families.
- This registration form covers all RE programs and activities throughout the year, including Sunday morning RE, special events, camps, and other activities.
- OWL is the exception and requires a separate registration process.
Thank you for helping get the new RE year off to a great start! Your quick response makes a big difference as preparations get underway for a wonderful year of learning, growing, and connecting.
Register by clicking here.
Chalice Children
(2-3 yrs of age)
Rainbow Connection, our new curriculum, introduces preschoolers to UU values such as respect, fairness, caring, responsibility, and trustworthiness through engaging stories and age-appropriate activities. Children explore these ideas through popular storybooks, songs, games, crafts, and free play. The class provides a fun, welcoming environment where children can build friendships while beginning to understand the values that help us care for ourselves, others, and our community.
Spirit Play
(PK-1st grade)
Children explore our Unitarian Universalist values through Montessori-based storytelling and opportunities for extension activities. Stories are shared using manipulatives, which are then kept on the shelf for exploration. These stories are from many different faith traditions as well as our Unitarian Universalist traditions, and are followed by questions allowing children to wonder.
Explorers
(2nd-4th grade)
Children in our this class will explore what it means to live their Unitarian Universalist values through stories, hands-on activities, games, art, and meaningful conversations. Woven Faith helps children discover how compassion, curiosity, courage, and community are woven together in everyday life. As they build friendships and ask big questions, they’ll learn that each person has unique gifts to share and that we are all connected in creating a more loving and just world.
Middle School
(5th-7th grade)
Our Middlers (upper elementary/middle school) program for the coming year is also from the woven Faiths Curriculum. This curriculum explores our UU faith through historical milestones—from space exploration and Mary Moody Emerson to the 1980 Water Ritual and Pete Seeger—inviting youth to create rituals, connect with nature, and practice accountable. We prioritize fun, connection, and relevance—helping Middlers explore real-life challenges with tools grounded in Unitarian Universalist values.
Options for families with younger children.
For our Wee Worshipers (birth-2 yrs), We offer the opportunity to remain in the worship service and sit in the first row on the far right side of the sanctuary, where they may play on the rug, dance, sing, and enjoy the service. Families may also choose to go into the Family room directly behind the sanctuary, where they can sit and listen to the worship service while the children play with age-appropriate toys.
Wee Worship
We have a “Wee Worship” area with books, puzzles, and toys for our youngest congregants in the Sanctuary.
Childcare
Childcare is available for children 2-3 years of age. The nursery is staffed by childcare workers every Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Family Room
Across the hall from the kitchen is the Family Room. Parents who wish to take their infants or young children out of the service for any reason may go into the family room to continue to see and hear the service while tending to their child’s needs.
Activity Folders
Should your family choose to keep children in the sanctuary during the service, activity folders are provided for children (or adults, for that matter!) who need something to do with their hands during the service. Please help your child put the materials back into the folder and return the folder at the end of service.
8 Principles of Unitarian Universalism
The foundation of our religious education programming.
1st Principle: We believe that each and every person is important.
2nd Principle: We believe that all people should be treated fairly and kindly.
3rd Principle: We believe that we should accept one another and keep on learning together.
4th Principle: We believe that each person must be free to search for what is true and right in life.
5th Principle: We believe that all persons should have a vote about the things that concern them.
6th Principle: We believe in working for a peaceful, fair, and free world.
7th Principle: We believe in caring for our planet Earth, the home we share with all living things.
8th Principle: Journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.
