The center of our lifelong learning at UUCC is Sunday morning classes––for youth and adults. But our youth religious education (YRE) is what glues our youth together with one another in their classes. 

Our youngest (K-3) gather in a Montessori-inspired time called “Spirit Play” where stories build foundations for spirituality and a moral imagination. Our older elementary youth (4-5) are in classes that address the foundations of UU identity and values (principles, sources of inspiration and a spirit of social justice.) Once in Middle School (6-7), our youth start to engage in some more advanced topics like religious diversity, personal identity and our emotional lives. 

This caps off in the fulcrum of the YRE experience: 8th grade “Coming of Age,” in which youth are invited into an intensive, year-long process of learning and expression. Youth conclude by leading their own service and reading out their own “Credo,” or statement of personal belief. As those students bridge into High School, they take the lead in a collaborative group of peers to focus and lead their own program as fully-fledged UUs.

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