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OUR PHILOSOPHY.
Our Religious Education program is one of our major points of focus. Indeed, one of the primary driving forces in our "Building Our Dream" expansion program was to provide enlarged facilities for our RE classes. We offer an open and experiential approach to learning and a creative, non dogmatic, nurturing environment for our children and youth. Unitarian Universalist religious education is unique because, in addition to teaching about our Unitarian Universalist faith, we help our children build an openness to the richness of other religious traditions. We encourage our children to develop a reverence for all life and a sense of interdependence with the universe. Our goals are to provide each child with opportunities for personal and group religious experience, with exposure to the range of diversity of religious activity, and with support for their ongoing personal religious development. While introducing our young people to the place of religion in human experience, we help them learn to think and respond affirmatively for themselves.
OUR CURRENT PROGRAMS. 
(We are currently in our summer
program. See below.)
Our nursery caregivers offer a safe and caring play environment for children from birth through age 3, every Sunday from 10AM - 11:30 AM in the Woodland Building.
Welcome to our Religious Education Program!
Weekly voluteer-lead classes
are held for children and youth age 3 to grade 12. Kinders through
6th graders attend the first part of the worship service with
their families from September - June.Teachers will escort the
children to class following the "Story for All Ages".
Youg Uns (ages 3 & 4) begin class at 10:15 and may be dropped
off as early as 10 am.
Our curriculum theme for 2000-01, a typical program, was "Jewish Christian Heritage." Grades 1 - 6 were introduced to some of the best known stories from biblical literature and the unique celebrations of each tradition. The younger ages focused on developing a positive self-mage and developing a sense of "church" as a safe and special place.
Classes Held in the Woodland
Building:
Young Uns (Ages 3 & 4): "Celebrating
Me and My World"
Kinders (Ages 5 & 6): "We
Are Many, We Are One"
Adventurers (Grades 3 & 4):
" Timeless Themes"
Classes Held in the Hillside
Building:
Primary (Grades 1 & 2): "Special
Times"
Voyagers (Grades 5 & 6): "Living
the Promise"
Junior Youth Group (Grades 7 & 8) meets from 10:15 - 11:30 every Sunday in Unitarian House.
YA! (Youth/Adult) program for
senior high youth meets from 10:15 - 11:30 most Sundays in the
Hillside building.
SUMMER PROGRAM.
During the summer, (mid May to mid September), we have RE programs for the younger children follows:
1. Infant and Baby Care to age 2, and
2. Stories, outdoor activities and crafts for ages 3 - 11. Youth helpers, ages 12 and up, are always welcome.
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