We provide children and youth an opportunity to explore, reflect, and learn in a nurturing spiritual community. Unitarian Universalist religious education programs offer all ages, inspiring:

• Ethical growth – internalizing enduring values like justice, equity, and compassion, and gaining tools to act on them in everyday life.
• Social growth – connecting with peers and people of all ages on a deeper level. Finding acceptance among people who see beyond the superficial.
• Spiritual growth – feeling a connection with the sacred within, among, and beyond us.

Religious Education programs include more than classes. On a Sunday you might find the preschoolers singing songs about kindness, the 2nd graders engaging with a story about loss and bereavement, the 5th graders talking with a Muslim couple about Islam, or the 7th graders learning about responsibility in a lesson from our progressive sexuality education program. Many programs incorporate social justice activities, worship opportunities, service trips, fellowship, and fun.

Our Director of Family Ministries works with parents and other members of the congregation to lead classes. All volunteers who work with children have passed a background check. Teaching can be a very fulfilling way to deepen one’s own faith.

We are currently (2024) holding Religious Education for children on Sunday mornings and meeting Sunday afternoons for youth.

We invite you to explore these pages and contact our Director of Family Ministries, Kathleen Swift, to get connected: dfm@chaliceuucongregation.org.