R.E. News
Religious Exploration (R.E.) Bundle o' News
If you are interested in being added to the RE listserv or helping with these events please contact Melissa Smith.
Please make sure your child/youth is registered so that we can have all the information we need to welcome them into their RE classes.
Update for RE for week of 9/8/24
RENews:
This past Sunday, our children and youth celebrated the last day of all ages summer RE with chalk painting and popsicles. We begin our focus on the spiritual practice of invitation by creating welcoming messages on the sidewalks of ERUUF with handmade recycled chalk paint. This Sunday we will begin our age level RE classes. We hope that we see you and your family there!
RE is also looking for a couple volunteers to take individual photographs of children and youth during the first few weeks of RE. We will use these photographs to help our Volunteers learn the children and youth’s names. If you are interested, please let Melissa Smith know.
Photos from the morning can be found here.
We are excited to host our Crossing Paths orientation for 6-8th grade youth this Sunday! Youth should bring one parent with them so parents are informed of our field trips for the year. Please come directly to the CARE building at 11am and meet us in Room 4/5.
Youth Groups (Grades 6-12) begin this Sunday! We will meet after second service from 12:45 pm-1:45 pm. Middle School Youth Group will meet in Room 4/5, and High School Youth Group will meet in Room 7.
2024-24 R.E. Registration is Open!
Registration for all our offerings for Children and Youth for the 2024-2025 program year is now open, this includes all RE programs and Our Whole Lives (OWL) Classes. Please register your child as soon as possible, so that we can prep classes and maintain a waiting list for OWL Programs.
More information about our offerings and registration for 2024-2025 ERUUF Programs.
RE Volunteers needed for all levels of Religious Exploration
(PreK-5th Grade, Crossing Paths (6th-8th Grade,) Coming of Age (COA,) and Youth Groups
Volunteering with our children and youth is a very rewarding experience. If you enjoy spending time with children & youth and like to have fun, we would love to have you join us! If you are interested in volunteering with RE for the 2024-2025 program year (Sept-May), please fill out our Volunteer Registration found here.
Update for RE for week of 8/25/24
RENews:
Our children and youth attended the multi-generational Ingathering service with their families and the entire ERUUF community. The 5th/6th Grade Our Whole Lives (OWL) class had their Orientation and first meeting this past weekend. The 8th/9th grade (OWL) class met and covered the topics of Gender Identity, Expression, Roles, and Stereotypes. Special thanks to our OWL Facilitators for getting both grade level OWL classes started! This Sunday will be our last Summer RE, as our age level classes will return on September 8th. Thank you to all the RE Volunteers that make it possible for us to offer wonderful programming for children and youth!
RE is also looking for a couple volunteers to take individual photographs of children and youth during the first few weeks of RE. We will use these photographs to help our Volunteers learn the children and youth’s names. If you are interested, please let Melissa Smith know.
Update for RE for week of 8/4/24
RENews:
Children and youth of ERUUF spent Sunday Morning with sweet animal friends. ERUUF Members, Amy Wilson-Stronks and Bill Stronks, shared their beautifully and gently horses Misty and Dexter with us. Children decorated craft horseshoes, petted, brushed, hugged and braided the tails of these sweet giants! Thank you so much Amy and Bill for sharing your horses with us!
This Sunday we will continue exploring our monthly theme of friendship. We hope to see you and your family there!
Update for RE for week of 8/18/24
RENews:
Children and youth of ERUUF spent the morning exploring the theme of friendship and interdependence. We made several types of friendship bracelets and played games together. Our 8th/9th Grade Our Whole Lives classes kicked off with Orientation and a Retreat Weekend. Special thanks to the teens and volunteers that spent the weekend with us!
This coming Sunday everyone (including our children and youth) will be attending the Multi-generational Ingathering service, we hope to see you there!
Update for RE for week of 8/11/24
RENews:
The youth and children of ERUUF explored the ERUUF woods together and created storytelling kits to take home. Storytelling can be a powerful part of friendship making, and we look forward to revisiting this topic soon.
This Sunday we will be making friendship bracelets together and continue to focus on what friendship means to us. We hope to see you there!
2024 Coming of Age (COA) Boston Trip Recap
Hello ERUUFians!
As we come into August, I wanted to give you a brief summary of our Coming of Age trip to Boston this summer! I’ve left out our travel on Wednesday and Monday and our meals, all of which were their own adventures. But below you will find the major things we did with some comments our youth sent me about each location we visited!
And a special thank you to all who helped fund and support the trip! We could not have done this without your contributions and care.
Update for RE for week of 7/28/24
RENews:
ERUUF children and youth spent the morning exploring magic through science experiments. They worked together to open a watermelon without cutting or smashing it. Instead rubber bands were used to create pressure that caused the watermelon to explode open. Great joy was found working together and eating the sweet treat! We hope that your family can join us for our final Sunday of magic inspiration for July.
Update for RE for week of 7/21/24
RENews:
Last Sunday the children and youth of RE continued to explore the theme of magic. We discussed the Article 2 process and the recently adopted language around the Unitarian Universalist Values. We then used invisible ink to write messages to each other that were inspired by these values. This week we will continue our inquiry of magic through more science experiments. We hope to see you there!
