RE Welcome

Welcome Message from the Minister

Religious education at this Fellowship has always held a position of high priority in our planning and ministry. During our 11 a.m. worship service, our children explore their own spiritual lives in meaningful ways, with the active involvement and support of caring adults. Instead of teaching children rote answers for their questions or beliefs, we try to lead them into an appreciation of moral values and social responsibility through all the universal teachings of religion, ethics and humanist philosophy.

I like to think of our RE program for both children and youth as a Learning Community. Children and youth learn in an atmosphere that invites questions about their lives and the world around them. We try to nurture the natural depths of each child’s personality. In fact, we consider religious education as a life-span process, for both children and adults, of creating our own meanings and values. Another way of saying it is that we believe Religious Education should always inform our children as to how to act responsibly and relate responsibly to each other and the world around them, not necessarily as religious members but as good human beings. I warmly invite you to visit us and allow your children to experience the kind of spiritual and ethical nurturing and direction we provide. We will also welcome your questions and desire to learn more about us.

Welcome to our Learning Community.

Jim Covington, Minister

Welcome Message from the Director of Religious Education

Welcome to the Religious Education program at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Briarcliff, Croton, and Ossining. We are an open and inclusive program which allows our children - through discussion, stories, social justice projects, arts and crafts, and celebrations, and based on age-appropriate curricula - to explore our world’s religions, moral and ethical behavior, acceptance of each other and care for our world, and to develop over time their own belief system. We meet at 11 a.m. on Sundays in the fellowship hall for our Children’s Chapel after which the children go to their classrooms until 12 noon. All of the children attend the first part of several services during the church year and also several full child-friendly services. There is no fee for Religious Education but we ask all parents to volunteer in our program in some way.

We hope you will visit us soon.

Carol Zoernack, Director of RE