Lifespan Religious Education
UUCSS’s robust Religious Education programs are active most Sundays. All ages are always welcome to choose to remain the Sanctuary during Services!
Babies and Toddlers are invited to stay with our caring staff in the Nursery every Sunday.
Children K-12th grade are invited to move to their classrooms for a variety of supervised age-specific activities until the end of Worship Service.
Youth from 9th to 12th grade may participate in special, part-year cohort programs, which may include Coming of Age or Teen Program.
Questions? Reach out to Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg, Assistant Minister for Spiritual Growth: amsg@uucss.org.
The great end in religious instruction is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own;
Not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own;
Not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth;
Not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs;
Not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions,
But to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision;
Not to burden the memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought;
Not to impose religion upon them in the form of arbitrary rules, but to awaken the conscience, the moral discernment.
In a word, the great end is to awaken the soul… to excite and cherish spiritual life.
– William Ellery Channing
