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We help kids struggle with the hard stuff: Big Questions, death, oppression, sex, spirituality
 From September through mid-May we offer Sunday School at both the 9:15 and 11 am Worship Services.
For the summer, we switch to one worship service at 10 am.
Watch for the Fall registration form on the news feed for children, youth and families on the home page just beneath the slide show on the right.
If you would like to volunteer for any of these classes or in any other aspect of our ministry with children and teens, check out our Volunteer Opportunity Page.
Check the calendar and latest news for children, youth and families on the home page just beneath the slide show on the right
9:15 am groups:
Preschool (ages 3 to 5) - Chalice Children: UU chants and fingerplays, sharing circles. Helps children feel safe and develop UU identity
*Kindergarten/1st Grade - Love Surrounds Us: Explores all the Principles in the context of Beloved Community. Faith in Action Projects allow kids to act out that love in community.
*Grades 2-4 - Love Will Guide Us: Explore the UU Sources as guides for life. The emphasis is on love, as the group explores the Big Questions. It also includes Faith in Action projects.
*Grades 5 & 6 - Heeding the Call: Qualities of a Justice Maker: explores linked oppressions in our society, and encourages personal growth in values that counteract the marginalization of others. Choice of several projects.
11:00 am groups:
Preschool (ages 3 to 5) - Chalice Children: UU chants and fingerplays, sharing circles. Helps children feel safe and develop UU identity
Kindergarten - Web of Life: Kindergarteners explore nature outdoors most weeks, answering the Big Questions by observing the cycles of nature and through reading Charlotte's Web.
*Grades 1 & 2 – Love Will Guide Us: Explore the UU Sources as guides for life. The emphasis is on love, as the group explores the Big Questions. It also includes Faith in Action projects.
*Grades 3 & 4 - Love Connects Us: Explores the important ways UUs live our faith in covenanted community. Moved by love and gathered in spirit, we embrace our responsibility toward one another and the world at large. Features Faith in Action projects.
*Grade 5 - Riddle & Mystery & Sections on Judaism from Bibleodian: Bibleodeon: Riddle focuses on the Big Questions. It is followed by an interactive introduction to important stories in the Hebrew Bible . Skits, role-play.
*Grades 6 & 7 – Heeding the Call: Qualities of a Justice Maker: explores linked oppressions in our society, and encourages personal growth in values that counteract the marginalization of others. Choice of several projects.
*Grade 8 - Our Whole Lives (OWL): A values-base, comprehensive sexuality class, OWL gives participants skills and practice in living their Unitarian Universalist values in the real world. It addresses the attitudes, values and feelings that youth have about themselves, relationships and sexuality. This is a closed group and requires parents to attend an orientation session.
Grade 9 - Coming of Age: Rite-of-passage program encourages youths to explore their own religious beliefs and learn more about living as a UU both within this congregation and in the larger world. Participants will be invited to join the church at the end of the year and share an expression of their current beliefs with the congregation in worship.This requires a major commitment on the part of the families. Parents must attend an orientation session.
*Grades 10-12, Sept.-Dec. - Our Whole Lives: See 8th Grade OWL for details. The team is developing the curriculum to meet the needs of the individuals in the group and to add up-to-date information that includes the changes that electronics have brought.
*Grades 10-12, Jan-April - Sharing the Journey - a High School Covenant Group: Explore issues of significance in the lives of high school youth. Uses talk, favorite music, and self-expression. With shared youth/adult leadership intimacy and ultimacy.
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*Tapestry of Faith - Embodying a faith development focus for our congregations, Tapestry of Faith is a series of programs and resources for all ages that nurture Unitarian Universalist identity, spiritual growth, a transforming faith, and vital communities of justice and love.
*Our Whole Lives (OWL) - our nationally recognized, comprehensive, values-based sexuality curricula for is offered each year. See the OWL Brochure for information.
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