We welcome you and your family to the religious education program. Our program is open to all persons, whatever their religious or cultural backgrounds or beliefs. We welcome your faith journey.
Religious awareness should develop naturally, as a person's experience expands and deepens in the world and in our community. It is therefore the goal of the religious education program to inspire discovery, inquiry, interrelationship and reverence for life in its infinite diversity.
Each week we offer our children a safe space to explore, a communal worship service to inspire reverence for life, and opportunity for intergenerational fellowship. In addition, intergenerational events are planned throughout the year, building a cycle of nurturing, as all ages renew each other.
Seven Affirmations of the Unitarian Universalist Principles and Purposes
(Children's Version)
We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote the following beliefs:
WE BELIEVE that each and every person is important.
WE BELIEVE that all people should be treated fairly and kindly.
WE BELIEVE that our churches are places where people are accepted and where we keep on learning together.
WE BELIEVE that each person must be free to search for what is true and right in life.
WE BELIEVE that everyone should have a vote about the things that concern them.
WE BELIEVE in working for a peaceful, fair and free world.
WE BELIEVE in caring for our planet earth.
Success is ...
...to laugh often and much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday Morning
Services begin at 10:45 a.m. every Sunday. The children join the entire congregation to light the chalice and to sit for our brief Children's Time, which is a 10 minute talk with the children based on various topics. The children follow their teachers to their RE classes after Children's Time. Classes end at 11:45, and the children are joined by the adults in Fellowship Hall for light refreshments. This allows for the children to feel part of the religious community. If your child is more comfortable in the sanctuary remaining with you, they are more than welcome to stay for the entire service.
CURRICULA
Our program varies from year to year in order to best meet the educational and religious needs of our children and youth. The classes are taught by UUCRT members who volunteer to teach in our RE Program.
There remains within each curriculum ample room for a child's creative response both individually and amongst his/her peers. The children are encouraged to explore because it is our faith conviction that persons of any age should be respected for their inherent ability to reason and discern what is true.
WHAT
DO I NEED TO DO TO HAVE MY CHILD ATTEND RE CLASSES?
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Fill out and
return the registration form available from each
classroom teacher or Acting Director of Religious
Education, Dr. Athena Drewes. Read over the Safety
Policy.
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Come early
on your first Sunday to acclimate your child to our
building and to meet his/her
teachers.
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Talk with
one of the co-chairs of the Religious Education
Committee, like Claire Reineman-Lieth. Contact her vie
email at crlieth@warwick.net
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Introduce
your family to Rev. Jim Bridges (at UUCRT on the
2nd
and
4th
Sundays).
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We do not
charge for our RE classes. We rely on pledges from our
members and friends every year, as well as our
volunteers. Parents are expected to volunteer in a
classroom at least five times over the RE
year.
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Commit to
bringing your child as regularly as possible and GET
INVOLVED!! We welcome your participation on the RE
Committee.
We
look forward to seeing you on Sundays!!
