Children and Youth (CYRE)

Stay tuned to this station for announcements about summer educational opportunities. For more information, please contact Scott Sargent, DRE, at dre@uucolumbia.org

For information about group activities in Children and Youth Religious Education contact our Religious Education Youth Ministeries Assistant at reassist@uucolumbia.org.

“The great end in religious instruction is not to stamp our minds on the young, but to stir up their own. Not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own. Not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth. Not to impose religion upon them in the form of arbitrary rules, but to awaken the conscience, the moral discernment . . . In a word, the great end is to awaken the soul . . .”

William Ellery Channing (1839)

Welcome to the Religious Exploration program for children and youth at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia! Please browse these pages for information on children and youth programs, curricula, calendars and more.

GETTING IN TOUCH WITH US

For information about our program, please contact Scott Sargeant, our Chair of Religious Exploration, or Mckenzie Scott, our Youth Ministries Assistant.

Dress: Children and youth are encouraged to dress to have a good, and possibly messy, time.

Register here at any time for CYRE.

Please print the form, complete and mail to:

CYRE UUCC

2701 Heyward Street

Columbia SC 29205

Carita Barr, Member: Growing up in a Lutheran state-taxed church, I never was very religious. But 40 years ago, I heard about Unitarian Universalism through friends. I found a home here where this diverse religious community really works to better our world. Respect and honor for the “other” is the main ingredient in our cooperative efforts as a movement.

Carita Barr, Member

Best Church:
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

“A church where skepticism is welcome and adherence to dogma is suspect? A church where all religions are invited but none are beyond introspection? A church that regularly presents nationally touring singer-songwriters? A church where half the congregation might have been at Hunter-Gatherer the night before? Now that’s a church we can support.”

Dan Cook Free Times

For much of our married life, we were without a church home, but felt our lives would be enriched if we could find a place where we were part of something greater than ourselves. The UUCC became that place. There, we’ve made great friends, enjoyed meaningful fellowship and found a sense of peace. It’s just what we were looking for.

Jane and Bob Gillespie, Members

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia