Our Youth Programs begin with 5th grade and continue through High School.

Questioners Early Middle Youth (Grades 5th-7th or Ages 10-12) Amazing Grace, a Tapestry of Faith curriculum, intends to help tweens understand right and wrong and act on their new understanding. Its purpose is to equip them for moving safely and productively through the middle- and high school years, when they will be continually tugged toward both ends of the ethics continuum. Through their involvement in Amazing Grace, youth will come to recognize and depend on their UU identity and resources as essential to their movement toward understanding, independence, and fulfillment of personal promise.

Seekers - Ages 13-18 Compass Points - Compass Points will lead its adolescent participants on a year-long spiritual journey during which they will have opportunities to sort out their feelings about themselves and their world as they do the difficult work of starting to create their adult selves; to discover what they believe about life's big questions; to acquire background in Unitarian Universalist history, polity and theology that they can know and express what UUism stands for.

New for Fall 2011

• Questioners/Middle Youth (grades 6-7) ~ Neighboring Faiths introduces younger youth to the faith traditions and practices of other religious groups in the local community.

• Grades 8-9 ~ Passages transitioning from Middle to Senior Youth is a major life passage, and our Passages program is designed to help youth make this transition. It will be offered at 11:15 Sunday mornings where the youth will explore worship, youth-adult relations, community building, social action, learning & leadership. Passages will also include at least one lock-in, a retreat, a service project, and learning to articulate Unitarian Universalism.

• Seekers/Senior Youth (grades 10-12) ~ Popcorn Theology examines relevant issues of theological and ethical importance, through visual media.

If you would like to apply to be a teacher in this exciting program, please contact Rev. Beth Williams (DRE) at education@unitarianchurchbr.com or Shannon Cavell (Co-Chair, Religious Education Council) at shansc@cox.net.