To nurture spiritual growth and cultivate transformative connections, the Children and Youth Religious Education Committee collaborates with the Director of Lifespan Religious Education to plan and execute the CYRE program, including reviewing, selecting and tailoring curricula to our children’s needs, determining the structure and timing of classes, setting policies to protect the safety and welfare of our community’s children and youth, and carrying out children’s chapels and multi-generational events.

To nurture spiritual growth, inspire lives of compassion and generosity, and create a more just world, the CYRE committee consults with and supports the work of the Director of Lifespan Religious Education to provide Children’s Chapels which both reinforce traditions that help develop Unitarian Universalist identities in our children and teach them a preparation, action, and reflection model of social justice that prepares them for lives of social justice work. To support our mission to create a more just world, the CYRE committee works to increase congregational awareness of the needs of the congregation’s families with children and the needs of those children. To support our mission to inspire lives of compassion and generosity, nurture spiritual growth, and cultivate transformative connections, the CYRE committee helps increase the congregation members’ commitments to CYRE by serving as religious education teachers, as committee members, or as Children’s Chapel volunteers. To nurture spiritual growth and create a more just world, the CYRE committee works to increase the involvement of children and youth in worship. To nurture spiritual growth, cultivate transformative connections, and create a more just world, the CYRE committee helps continue prior initiatives in multigenerational worship and creates events that are sensitive to the developmental levels of children. You may learn more about our Children’s and Youth religious education programs by visiting their respective pages.