Religious Education

Sunday Programs for Children And Youth

We offer a vibrant, active Religious Education program for children and youth from infancy to high school graduation. Our classes use contemporary educational methods and up-to-date spiritual and ethical materials. We foster questioning minds, loving hearts, and helping hands. We provide a progressive and evolving spiral of material about the Judeo-Christian tradition, the wisdom of our world religious heritage, and our own Unitarian and Universalist history, practices, and principles. We have an attentive Nursery, age-appropriate ideas and activities for each age level, both middle and high school classes, and a youth group for teenagers. Children and youth join us for the early portion of our Sunday worship services and are welcome at many of our church social events, educational opportunities, and community service projects. Children and Youth are invited to sit with their parents or friends as the church service begins at 11:00 a.m.The Religious Services Associate for the day will call the children and youth to the front of the Chapel where they may sit together around the right side of the raised platform so they can easily participate in the Children’s Focus and other activities that take place at the beginning of the service. 

The children and youth will be adjourned to their classes at approximately 11:15.  The Fall  2002 RE Program for Children and Youth will focus on Our Western Heritage. Meeting locations are as follows: 

• Kindergarten Group (4- and 5-year-olds):  Howe Room (south wing)
• Primary I Group (1st graders):  Jefferson Room (south wing)
• Primary II Group (2nd graders):  Emerson Room (north wing)
• Elementary Group (3rd, 4th, 5th graders):  Darwin Room (north wing)
• Middle School Group (6th, 7th,8th graders):  Channing Room (north wing)
• High School Group (9th through 12th graders):  Ingersoll room (south wing)

Child care for infants (0 to 3 years old and toddlers) is provided by our professional child care associate in the Nursery from 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Infants, toddlers, Kindergarten and Primary children should be picked up from their classrooms by their parents following the Sunday service so they may participate with the congregation and its guests in the Social Hall fellowship. 

Brochures regarding our programs, curricula, special events are available by calling Associate Minister, Rev. Ann Marie Alderman, our Director of Religious Education, at 725-8133 or by contacting her at amalderman@uuma.org.

Our adult education opportunities between September and May, take place on Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. Check THE BEACON for class topics, teachers, and beginning dates. There is also a lay-led adult discussion group, Playing with Ideas, that meets each Sunday from 9:30 –10:40 a.m. in the Anthony Room.