At the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia you will find a flexible and growing experience-oriented approach to religious education. We define the role of religious education as nurturing the spiritual and intellectual growth of children. We believe that an experience is religious when it awakens the child to wondering, questioning, searching and discovering.

Our religious education curricula does not aim at indoctrinating, but at awaking; not at dogmatics, but at creative development; not at supernatural interpretations, but at natural acceptance. Our lessons will help lead parents and children into new experiences and discoveries together, and it will encourage the life-affirming and world accepting philosophy which is most congenial to religious liberalism.

We will not teach our religion as though it were a closed system with all questions neatly answered. We do not want our children to become ‘little theologians’. Rather, we wish to make them eager to enter into life and enjoy its rich rewards, and able to find a place in the sun for themselves.

So, we will teach truth, not “the truth”, and will offer knowledge, not indoctrination. You are welcome to come join us any Sunday!

Lisa Fritsche, Director of Youth Religious Education – Office hours: 9-2 Wednesday, 9-12 Sunday

Youth Religious Education Committee:
Mary Beth Schillinger, David Setzer, Allie Gassmann and Kelly Hayday