- Our regular programming will begin Sunday, September 7, 2025 and will continue through to May 17th, 2026.
- Two worship services are offered most Sundays at 9:00am and 11:30am. Youth Religious Education and Adult Learning are offered at 10:15am.
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Visitors may drop into any of the classes or join us for worship at any time.
- Nursery care is provided during both services and the education hour.
Holiday weekends there may be only one service at 10:00am and no education hour. Nursery care will be provided during the service. - Children and Adults attend the Sunday service together. We sing together, share the joys and concerns of our lives, reflect together in silence, heed the wisdom of ancient and modern words, and listen and respond to thoughts from the minister or others.
- In the classroom, the children and youth interact with their peers using age-appropriate lessons that emphasize self-reflection, kindness, acceptance and delight in the mysteries of our world. They are encouraged to create their own spiritual paths based on our seven principles and interaction with parents and peers. We strive to include children as much as possible in every element of church life. We celebrate special seasons and events with a variety of rites, stories and music, together with our children.
- Register your family for Youth Religious Education here and we’ll add you to the distribution list for classroom links and weekly updates.
September – May Sunday Mornings
Pre-School and Kindergarten
Chalice Children
This program delves deep into our Unitarian Universalist faith. It strives not just to teach about our faith, but also to provide experiences around the strength of community, the wonder and awe that transcend everyday understanding, and life issues we all share. Early childhood (the years between ages 3 and 5) is filled with curiosity and wonder. In a group setting, with loving adult guides, young children can engage in spiritual seeking, develop their openness to sharing, and experience the benefit of a supportive community. Their time in Chalice Children can set a pattern for the rest of their lives and bring lasting benefits.
1st & 2nd grade
Looking Inward
Each of us holds a unique light. By learning to look inward, we begin to notice our thoughts, our feelings, and the values that help guide our choices. In this curriculum, children will explore who they are, what they care about, and how they can bring love and kindness into the world—starting with themselves.
This theme-based curriculum is designed to explore self-awareness, emotional understanding, personal values, and the spark of the sacred within each of us. Grounded in UU Principles and Shared Values, this program invites children to gently begin the lifelong journey of spiritual and emotional exploration.
3rd & 4th grade
Spirit of Adventure
Exploring our UU identity, learning takes place from physical movement, challenge, and adventure. This curriculum teaches UU identity without the usual arts and crafts projects. It includes activities like dissecting a computer, building cantilevered architecture using graham crackers, interviewing a sports coach, eating smoked oysters and singing Jingle Bells in “dog” language!
Themes they will explore include medicine, food, holidays, science, building, exploring, web of life, and sports. All of the Spirit of Adventure lessons have built-in “teachable moments” about UU
identity. For example, sports can be used as a valuable way to translate our Values and Principles for children. Good sportsmanship and teamwork offer important parallels to the UU way of being in the world.
5th & 6th grade
Amazing Grace: Exploring Right and Wrong
This curriculum helps fifth and sixth graders understand right and wrong and act on their new understanding. It equips 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 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.
7th & 8th grade
Coming of Age: Deepening Ties within Your Congregation
The Coming of Age (COA) program guides adolescents on a journey with opportunities to explore their identities, beliefs, Unitarian Universalist faith, relationships with others, and their connections to the world. The overarching goal is to provide youth with the tools to begin intentionally shaping their own spiritual lives and encourage youth to create their own “empowering stories.”
We help our young people grow and develop in their Unitarian Universalist faith by exploring the values and beliefs they hold at this point in their lives and by identifying intentional steps toward connecting with our congregation in ways that may help sustain a lifelong Unitarian Universalist identity and practice.
The COA program is designed to acknowledge the transition between childhood and adolescence. It is a vibrant program focusing on the youth themselves and each unique journey. COA is a transformative experience as we create a space and time for deep authentic relationships among youth, facilitators, mentors, and the congregation.
Elements of the Program
During the COA year youth experience learning, testing, ritual, and celebration. The program includes ceremony, sessions tackling life’s “big questions”, an overnight Chalice Circle retreat in the fall and Wilderness Retreat in the spring, weekly games, exploring religious beliefs through many forms, including art & music.
9th – 12th grade
High School Youth Group
The theme based sessions will be filled with creative, high quality worship, games, meditations, reflections, stories, art engagement, discussion starters, etc. Each session is built around our monthly themes to ensure that your youth are part of the wider theme conversation happening all around the congregation.
Our core youth program for high school students provides experiences in community building and fellowship, worship and congregational engagement, social action, UU values, and youth-led sessions exploring the monthly themes and other topics of importance to our youth and their world. Youth and advisors work jointly to plan and participate in social action projects, leadership development, and opportunities for worship.
Youth Group is a wonderful experience for teens – it broadens their perspectives and gives them a comfortable atmosphere in which to discuss the issues they are dealing with, as they become adults.
High school-age UUs put our faith into action every day by daring to be real, showing acceptance and support, leading with courage, and acting for justice.
After all, what is religion for if it isn’t about changing your life—and changing the world—for the better?
Register your family for Youth Religious Education here and we’ll add you to the distribution list for classroom links and weekly updates.
You may contact our Director of Religious Education, Steve Cooper, to learn more about any of our youth programs.