Children’s Religious Exploration

Welcome to our Children's Religious Exploration (CRE) Program. We offer a welcoming, supportive, progressive religious education for our children and we look forward to your family being a part of our village.

Our program helps children and youth deepen their understanding of our UU faith, celebrating each human's individual uniqueness, and learning to care for this magnificent earth we call home. Not to mention, we have loads of fun!

April Theme: The Gifts of Interdependence. 

Continuing with Soul Matter’s overarching frame for the year, The Gifts of Our Faith, April explores The Gifts of Interdependence. 

April 7 - Interdependence - What is it? 
In this session, children will explore what interdependence means for us as Unitarian Universalists, the difference between independence and interdependence, and how our faith teaches us and lifts up the idea that we can’t go it alone.

Time for All Ages: The Invisible Web by Patrice Kerst

April 14 - The Web of Community - How we nurture it, and it nurtures us
In this session, using the metaphor of “pouring”, children will explore how our interdependence with our communities is such a vital part of our understanding of what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist.  Children will explore the many different ways we can contribute and pour ourselves into our church communities and how our communities pour their support, wisdom, concern into us, filling up our cups. In other words, we can find nurturing and comfort in our church communities and how we can nurture it back.

Time for All Ages: Creekfinding: A True Story by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

April 21 - Caring for the Web of Creation
In this session, children will explore how The Gift of Interdependence and Earth Day are both reminders that we are called to care for our planet, its natural resources, and the life and nature that inhabit it.

Time for All Ages: The Zax by Dr. Seuss

April 28 - How the Web of Creation Cares for Us
In this session, children will explore how our Earth and the web of creatures and creation take care of us. Children will have the opportunity to explore how nature is a gift and how being in it and connected to it allows us to live, thrive, and feel cared for.

Time for All Ages: The Earth Gives More by Sue Fliess

Family Friendly Service

KUUF services are family friendly! Children are welcome to stay for the entire service. Most 5-12 year olds choose to go to Children's Religious Exploration (CRE) after Time for All Ages.

Time for All Ages

KUUF is a member of the Soul Matters Sharing Circle, a group of over 145 UU congregations who follow the same monthly worship themes. This year's overarching frame is The Gifts of Our Faith, focusing on ten beloved UU values and exploring their potential to shape us and in turn shape the world. This allows us to share in a Time for All Ages, often a story, that connects the theme to the sermon and to the activities the children will be doing. Following Time for All Ages most children go to Children's Religious Exploration.