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Children & Youth Programs

Our religious exploration and spiritual discovery programs are not classes, they are encounters and opportunities. On a Sunday, you might find the preschoolers spending time with an elder from the congregation, elementary school students hearing and seeing sacred stories and experiencing ritual, and middle schoolers taking field trips to different faith communities and sites of spiritual importance in and around Boston.

As our children and youth grow up in our congregation, they will have the opportunity to participate in Our Whole Lives (known as OWL), a comprehensive, progressive sexuality education program. This program is offered for our children in K-2nd, 4th-6th, and 7th-9th grades.

We also have middle school and high school youth groups which meet for social activities several times a month. All youth will have an opportunity to participate in select adult programs that are intended to be multi-generational.

Our 2023-2024 Program Year will include a variety of offerings these age-specific opportunities:

This is a Unitarian Universalist program of religious education that evolved from a long line of Montessori-based religious education programming. It is based on story and ritual, play and creativity. Spirit Play gives children the tools to make meaning of their lives within the container of Unitarian Universalism. Many of the stories will come from Hebrew and Christian scripture and other stories that are resonant with our UU values.

We will be offering many opportunities for our middle school youth to spend time together and enjoy social connections and participate in justice work, they will spend time learning about the biblical stories through the wisdom of the women who lived them, and spending time in worship at FUUSN, visiting other congregations, and taking special trips to a variety of historical sites in Boston and surrounding areas like King’s Chapel in Boston or Walden Pond. These opportunities culminate in one final Coming of Age year.