Religious Education Program

Childcare (4 years old and under)

Our childcare is provided complimentarily by the First Church in the Nursery Room, adjacent to the classrooms in the community hall. Our childcare provider is a paid staff member who has been CPR and EMT certified. Childcare is available on Sunday mornings from 10:15 am until 12:00 pm . Parents are welcome to spend as much or as little time in the nursery with their wee ones as they like. We consider the nursery experience to be our children's first encounter with the faith community as ‘safe' and welcoming.

Elementary Class

Children in this group range from Kindergarten (age 5) to Grade 5 (age 10 or 11). The Elementary Group will be using a curriculum titled Spirit of Adventure for the 2007-2008 church year. This is an activity-filled curriculum that teaches Unitarian Universalist identity for 2 nd through 5 th grade children. It's full of fun lessons that encourage the understanding of how spirituality plays a role in our everyday activities through mediums such as sports, food, medicine, science, exploring, and building things.

Youth Group

This group is made up of children who are in 6th through 8 th grade although high school students are welcome also. These youths will be learning from Traditions With a Wink! a curriculum about UU identity. Through these lessons, we look at what makes a tradition and teach an understanding of our faith through the use of science and reason, celebrations we've created, the different ways we make community happen, and through our roots in the Judeo-Christian heritage.

"The great end in religious instruction is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; to awaken the soul, to excite and cherish spiritual life."

~ William Ellery Channing Unitarian Minister (1780-1842)

Religious Education at First Church of Christ Unitarian is considered on-going throughout the life of our members. This is why we call it Lifespan Religious Education. This love of learning about spirituality begins with kindergarteners during Religious Education classes held on Sunday mornings from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Adult religious education offerings are posted at different times throughout the year, and many members and non-members enjoy the learning and discussions that come out of these events.

As Unitarian Universalists, we do not subscribe to a creed or dogma. However, there are seven principles which Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote:

• The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
• Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
• Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our

Congregations;

• A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
• The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our

Congregations and in society at large;

• The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
• Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are part

We invite you to join us for Sunday worship, or for an adult religious education offering that strikes your interest.

 

• June 1 or June 8  Planting of the Butterfly Garden out back depending on the weather. All are welcome to help participate after church

• June 8  Children with instruments arrive at 9:30 to practice with the choir.

• June 15   Father’s Day and Children’s Sunday. The children will be leading the service. Children will play their instruments every other stanza with the choir. The first half of the service will be on what they learned this year, and the second half will be a Tribute to Fathers.
  Potluck picnic immediately following church.

Call 978-365-7822
E-mail ann.frantz@gmail.com
Write: Ann Frantz, 13 Highfield Drive, Lancaster MA 01523.