The children of First Unitarian are finding out this summer in a 10-week summer session in which a different Dr. Seuss book is read each week, with accompanying activities and discussion. This innovative and fun curriculum comes to us from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Atlanta and has been used by UU churches around the country. This summer program is the start of an exciting year of children s RE planned for First Unitarian. Much planning and work has gone into raising the quality of our children s RE program, which had fallen on hard times following the departure of Rob and Janne Eller-Isaacs and the move to two services.
Planning is already well underway for the regular church year.
Every month, the first Sunday will be a service project in which all classes will participate. Church members are being recruited to lead the children in a meaningful project that teaches the values that we espouse in our justice programs. During the second and third Sundays of the month, we will be using UU curriculum materials while adapting many of the elements of worship for the children. This means every week children will start with chalice lighting, they will have a time for joys and concerns, they ll sing songs and they ll have a moment or two to meditate. This teaches our children the basic vocabulary of our community so worship is not foreign to them.