Classes and Curriculum

Emerson Church provides a complete Religious Education program that includes age-appropriate Church School classes for pre-school through high school. We strive to engage our children and youth in a program founded on our UU principles and values while providing a safe and nurturing environment conducive to developing their own spiritual identity. Our RE program is a vital, energetic part of our church community.

The Times, They are A-Changin’ at Emerson UU! It’s September 12, 2010 – Where do my children and I go?

On September 12th – we will kick off our new church year with a bang!  The Children and Youth RE Committee invites families to attend our “1st Annual Sunday School Registration/Brunch.  The festivities will run from 9:45 am – 10:45 am in Schweitzer Hall (rooms 108 & 111). 

Come meet other Emerson families, children/youth of all ages, eat some great food, find out more about what is happening this year, and fill out the required Sunday School registration forms.  We want you, WE need you, and WE LOVE YOU and WE want you to be well-informed.  So we leave you with these words of wisdom from Jane Austen, “My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”   We hope to enjoy YOURr company on September 12.

Where do our Children & Youth Go on a Typical Sunday Morning

10:00 am     Infants up to age 5—Childcare— Room 103 & 104
                    Kindergarten—5th Grade:  Community in Action Program Room—108/111
                    6th & 7th Grades—Room 209 or will join the Community in Action Program – Room 108/111
                    8th Grade [Coming of Age]—Room 207
                    9th—12th Grades– Room 208
Note:  Children age 4 may join the Community in Action Program if accompanied by Adult.  Parents pick up children (K—5th) by 10:50 am.  Parents of preschoolers take child(ren) to Room 107 for RE class at 10:55 am. Note: Community in Action Program not held on “Multi-generational” Sundays.

11:00 am      Worship Service Begins [NOTE NEW TIME]
                    Infants and Toddlers—Childcare—Rooms 103 & 104
                    Preschoolers [3 & 4 yr olds] - Room 107
Note:  Kindergarten— 8th Grade will begin in worship service with their family.  Sr. Youth Group [YRUU] and our Preschoolers will join the 1st part of the worship service as a group with their teachers/advisors periodically.

11:15 am       Religious Education Classes for Children & Youth
                    Kindergarten & 1st Grade—Room 105
                    2nd & 3rd Grades—Room 108
                    4th & 5th Grades—Room 111
                    6th, 7th, & 8th Grades—Room 209
                    9th—12th Grades [YRUU] —Room 208
Note:  Parents please pick up your children (Infants—3rd Grade) immediately following the service.

New Fall RE Program -- Multigenerational Classes

In the Spirit of Building a Multi-generational Community at Emerson, the Adult RE and Children & Youth RE Committees are offering a new multi-generational curriculum this year during the 10:00 hour entitled “Gather the Spirit.” The course will begin on Sept. 26, and then every 2nd Sunday October - May (excluding December).  Gather the Spirit is an eight-session, multigenerational program that teaches stewardship with a focus on WATER. Perhaps, today, there is no more compelling focus for our stewardship than the clean, drinkable water all life on Earth requires. Through a lens both scientific and religious, using activities a wide range of ages can do together, this program addresses the importance of water, the inequity of access to clean water, and actions we can take as Unitarian Universalist stewards. It asks: Can water sources be owned? Why is clean water scarce in parts of the world? If clean water is abundant where I live, what difference does it make if I conserve it? What can I do to promote global water equity?