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| Sophia Fahs was an early pioneer in Unitarian Universalist religious education and editor of curriculum for the American Unitarian Association in the 1930's and 1940's. It was her belief that faith grew out of a child’s own questioning, wondering, and experience. She maintained that religion isn’t like an old dress or suit that you cut down to fit a child. Many of the Unitarian Univeralist curricula reflect her philosophy of religious education. |
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| Program Oganization | - | |
| The Religious Education Program is planned and taught by the Religious Education Committee that is comprised of the Director of Religious Education and interested members and friends of the congregation. It is a source of pride that we have been able to offer this program free of charge through the support of our congregation. Parents are encouraged to help support this program by participating in the following activities: RE Committee member, volunteer teaching aide, , shop for supplies, provide/prepare snacks for students, prepare curriculum packets, volunteer to supervise a middle/school high school evening youth group, etc. To enroll your child simply complete a registration form (available in the church office) and submit it to the Director of Religious Education. |
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| Curriculum | - | |
| We welcome the UUF kids to program for the 2009/2010 year. The Elementary and Preschool Program follows the UU Curriculum Around the Church Around the Year. Its author, Jan Evans-Tiller, prepared this curriculum to help the children feel a part of the Unitarian Universalist community and understand the faith and practices of Unitarian Universalism. The program focuses on the children’s own experience with fundamental concerns of life and death, human relationships, and personal identity—not as abstract concepts but in ways appropriate to preschool and primary age children. The Middle School Program for the 2009/2010 year will follow the Tapestry of Faith, Amazing Grace curriculum. This program will meet on alternate Sundays beginning on September 27, 2009. The author of Amazing Grace, Richard Kimball, states that the curriculum intends to help sixth graders 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 Unitarian Universalist identity and resources as essential to their movement toward understanding, independence, and fulfillment of personal promise. |
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