Children & Youth

Based on the premise that children learn best through experience, this program helps nurture spiritual growth, creativity and a sense of community through imaginative activities and rituals such as rhymes, fingerplays, and story time. This curriculum includes lessons that introduce children to concepts such as birth and death, dreams and the natural world. Children will be introduced to the basic concepts of UU principles as they imagine, create, and play together. 

Kindergarten- First Grade

Wonderful Welcome

The Wonderful Welcome curriculum engages and challenges leaders and children alike to explore how and why we are willing to welcome others into our lives. We welcome not only strangers, but family, our peers, our neighbors and even entities that are not people such as our animal friends and nature itself. Children will explore their UU identity as each week they are introduced to a ‘gift’ which life gives. Children will play games, read stories, and create projects together.

2nd-3rd and 4th-5th Grade

Moral Tales

The Moral Tales curriculum brings stories and UU identity to life. Each session has a central story in which participants meet real and fictional heroes and heroines who have displayed moral courage and spiritual greatness. They will hear about characters who have struggled, but who have chosen justice, goodness, and love. The stories in Moral Tales 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. Children will have the chance to participate in activities, discussions, read books together, and do projects. This is a fun curriculum with many opportunities for children to make connections to our UU faith. 

Middle Grades 6-8th 

Amazing Grace

 Amazing Grace intends to help 6th-8th graders understand right and wrong and act on their new understanding. Its purpose is to equip them for moving safely and productively through the middle- and high school years, when they will be continually tugged toward both ends of the ethics continuum. Through their involvement in Amazing Grace, youth will discuss some of life’s ‘big questions’, and come to recognize and depend on their Unitarian Universalist identity and resources as essential to their movement toward understanding, independence, and fulfillment of personal promise.

High School

This year, the high school group will be coordinating their Sunday Lessons with the Share the Plate schedule in the sanctuary. The hope is that the youth can learn more about the mission and vision of these organizations that the congregation has voted as worthy of our support. They will also be focusing on each UU principle through discussions and projects. 

Youth In Action

Wednesday Night Youth Group – Beginning in October- Watch for Details Coming Soon

Youth In Action is a youth group composed of middle and high school students with a focus on Social Action and Social Justice themes and activities. We will meet on Wednesday evenings beginning in October. Please watch our website and Newsletter for further information. During the Youth In Action meetings, youth are encouraged to participate in activities which get them involved in the community. Last year they picked the themes and focus in the areas of: LGBTA, Homelessness and Hunger, and Animals. The leaders allow for the youth to contribute their own ideas and passions to help drive their own activities. Youth will have ownership over their choices of what they choose to do as projects.