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Our Sunday morning RE Program seeks to facilitate the exploration of how each of us can be a better person through learning, deepening our spiritual selves, and by reaching out to make in difference in our community. All classes, except the Nursery, are staffed with volunteer teaching teams on a rotating basis.
The Nursery has a single regular care-giver each Sunday at both services. Sometimes, if more children are in attendance than expected, parents may be asked to assist with childcare. Location: Room 4
Curriculum
For the curricular portion of our Sunday morning program, our RE groups will be learning about our Unitarian Universalist (UU) heritage and developing their own UU identity. Grades Kindergarten through High School will explore change and loss in our lives as we participate in our 3 week, bi-annual of Lessons of Loss curriculum.
• Preschool, Two-year-olds through four-year-olds (First and Second Service)
• Kindergarten-Middle School (First Service)
• Kindergarten-Second Grade (Second Service)
• Third-Fifth Grade (Second Service)
• Middle School (Second Service)
• High School (Second Service)
 Faith-in-Action Sundays
Throughout the year, our children and youth have an opportunity to do direct service for our church, our Long Beach community and our world through hands-on projects and learning. Facilitated by Tricia Gagna. (10/4, 11/8, 12/6, 1/3, 2/7, 3/7, 4/11 and 5/9)
Spiritual Practices Workshop Sundays
Fifth Sundays (November, January and May), these are times for our children and youth to experience and learn about the benefits of spiritual practice and to get a taste of three different practices each Sunday.
Intergenerational services (Animal Service, Water Service, Christmas Eve Worship, etc.)
Our children and youth are important members of our faith community. They learn by doing and experiencing firsthand. A primary aim of our religious education program is to cultivate a sense of pleasure and respect for worship experiences. There are several Intergenerational Services during the year. These services take the place of Religious Education classes.
Young people are welcome in our worship services. Regardless of whether they understand everything that happens, we believe that they will absorb information little by little, as well as develop a sense of identity as a Unitarian Universalist.
Summer Religious Education Program
Our RE Program runs through the summer adding FUUN in Faith days, continuing religious exploration. Then in August, our children and youth, work month-long on our annual Faith-in-Action project to collect backpacks and back-to-school supplies for Long Beach's Mary McLeod Bethune Transitional Center for Homeless Students. We provide more then 120 filled backpacks each year to aid children and youth who are homeless in our area.
Religious Education Calendar
The schedule on Sunday mornings vary. Our Religious Education program has many supplemental activities. Click here to learn what is going on now, and for the next few weeks.
Children and Youth RE Curriculum
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Preschool—Two-year-olds to four-year-olds
(First & Second Service)
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Chalice Children
The focus for this group will be on providing a nurturing environment and beginning to build friendships through stories, songs, snacks and play time.
Room 6
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Kindergarten-Middle School (First Service)
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Faithful Journeys/Lessons of Loss
UUA Tapestry of Faith
In the Faithful Journeys curriculum, part of the new UUA Tapestry of Faith program, participants embark on a pilgrimage of faith, exploring how Unitarian Universalism translates into life choices and everyday actions. In each session, they hear historic or contemporary examples of Unitarian Universalist faith in action. Stories about real people model how participants can activate their own personal agency – their capacity to act faithfully as Unitarian Universalists – in their own lives, and children have regular opportunities to share and affirm their own stories of faithful action.
Room: Chalice A/B
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Kindergarten-Second Grade (Second Service)
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Faithful Journeys/Lessons of Loss
UUA Tapestry of Faith
In the Faithful Journeys curriculum, part of the new UUA Tapestry of Faith program, participants embark on a pilgrimage of faith, exploring how Unitarian Universalism translates into life choices and everyday actions. In each session, they hear historic or contemporary examples of Unitarian Universalist faith in action. Stories about real people model how participants can activate their own personal agency – their capacity to act faithfully as Unitarian Universalists – in their own lives, and children have regular opportunities to share and affirm their own stories of faithful action.
Room: Chalice B
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Third-Fifth Grade
(Second Service)
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Faithful Journeys/Lessons of Loss
UUA Tapestry of Faith
In the Faithful Journeys curriculum, part of the new UUA Tapestry of Faith program, participants embark on a pilgrimage of faith, exploring how Unitarian Universalism translates into life choices and everyday actions. In each session, they hear historic or contemporary examples of Unitarian Universalist faith in action. Stories about real people model how participants can activate their own personal agency – their capacity to act faithfully as Unitarian Universalists – in their own lives, and children have regular opportunities to share and affirm their own stories of faithful action.
Room: Chalice A
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Middle School
(Second Service)
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Compass Points
Our middle school group will be using a new curriculum which leads youth to greater self-knowledge; to explore life’s big questions; to learn about Unitarian Universalist history, polity and theology; and to think independently, make decisions and explore values.
Rooms: 2-3
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High School
(Second Service)
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The Road Less Traveled/(Compass Points)
Our High School group will learn about our six Unitarian Universalist Sources in the fall through meaningful discussions and activities; then and will be traveling off-site to experience various other faith traditions in the spring.
Room: Lounge
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Life-Long Learning