What We Offer Through the Lifespan Learning

We provide children, youth, and adults an opportunity to explore, reflect, and learn in a nurturing spiritual community. Unitarian Universalist religious education programs offer all ages, inspiring:

• Ethical growth – internalizing enduring values like justice, equity, and compassion, and gaining tools to act on them in everyday life.
• Social growth – connecting with peers and people of all ages on a deeper level. Finding acceptance among people who see beyond the superficial.
• Spiritual growth – feeling a connection with the sacred within, among, and beyond us.

Religious education programs include more than classes. On a Sunday you might find the preschoolers singing songs about kindness, the 2nd graders engaging with a story about loss and bereavement, the 5th graders talking with a Muslim couple about Islam, the 7th graders learning about responsibility in a lesson from our progressive sexuality education program, and the high-school youth raising money for the local homeless shelter. Many programs incorporate social justice activities, worship opportunities, service trips, fellowship, and fun.

Youth Programs

Our religious educator and minister lead many of our congregations’ lifespan programs. Parents and other members of the congregation often lead them, too, and have done so for years through TRUU’s history. Teaching can be a very fulfilling way to deepen one’s own faith.

Children’s religious education programs are typically offered on Sunday mornings.

Adult Programs

Our adult programs occur at various times during the year. In connection with our theme-based ministry, we offer a spiritual discussion group once a month on Sundays. That group is open to drop-in participation, and it allows those who have attended (some or all) services during the month to delve deeper in a theme. Themes we have explored recently include “ancestors”, “desire” and “humility.”

We invite you to explore more in these pages and then come meet us next Sunday.