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Lifespan Religious Education for Children and YouthRegular Sunday Morning Religious Education Classes for preschool through senior high are offered from September through May. Classes begin at 10:55 and end at 12:15. All young people children attend a brief children's message in the sanctuary with their families each week from 10:55 – 11:15. First Hour Programs Infants, Toddlers
and Preschoolers Kindergartners
– 5th Graders Social action is a cornerstone of our Unitarian Universalist faith. Each year, children work on a special project such as "Read to Feed" for Heifer Project International, "Pennies for Poems" to benefit our Partner Church, and many others. In addition, children participate in several projects which are repeated annually. Some of these are listed below. We welcome your suggestions for additions to this list.
Youth Groups at First Unitarian Church focus on six primary components: Fellowship, Social Action, Worship, Youth-Adult Relations, Leadership Development, and Learning. These groups are concerned with fun and community-building as well as service to the church and the larger community. Our adult facilitators help youth acquire the skills needed to take leadership roles within the youth groups, the congregation, and the denomination. Schedule: Following each Sunday's R.E. class, all youth are invited to stay for Youth Lunch in the Open Classroom, from 12:30 - 1:00. Lunches are provided by parents/guardians and other volunteers on a rotating schedule. Parents of participants are expected to provide occasional lunches. The Middle School YoUUth Group for 6th - 8th graders meets (almost) every Sunday after the youth lunch, 1:00 - 2:30. YoUUth Advisors: Patty Kannapel, Nancy Macpherson and Doug Taylor Senior High R.E. Class and Youth Group are combined and will meet weekly from 10:55 - 12:15. (Except on weeks when multigenerational services are scheduled.) Approximately once each month, members will meet for extended sessions for special projects or activities. Senior High Advisors: Kathy Gapsis, Rick Rinehart and Seana Golder Youth in Grades 6 - 12 and their parents are required to read and sign the First Unitarian Youth Code of Behavior in order to participate in youth programming. Coming
of Age (7th Grade and Up) Coming
of Age 2009-2010 Orientation Session March 21st, 7:00 - 8:30 Multigenerational Programs are offered on selected Sundays, 9:45 – 10:45. Designed for participants of all ages, this program has a fourfold goal: to encourage each participant's search for truth and meaning through a variety of arts-related activities; to increase intergenerational interactions; to help integrate our upstairs R.E. programs with our downstairs Celebrations of Life; and to give families an opportunity to participate together. Participants will spend an hour on 3 or 4 consecutive weeks learning and practicing a particular artistic endeavor under the leadership of an expert leader, culminating in a performance or exhibit. Past Artist-in-Residence programs have included morris dance, dulcimer orchestra, storytelling, choir for all ages, butterfly gardening, and contra dancing. Watch Steepletalk and the First U listserv for announcements of these special programs. Other 2009 Artist-in-Residence Programs TBA www.firstulou.org/re/classes.html |