Children and Youth (CYRE)

Elementary, Middle & High School CYRE Classes

All classes are held via Zoom on the 1st & 3rd Sunday each month. Links will be made available before classes begin. If your student wishes to participate, please print and complete a registration form and submit to Scott Sargent via “snail mail” to UUCC, 2701 Heyward Street, Columbia SC 29205.

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 online 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

We were looking for a church where we felt accepted both intellectually and spiritually, a place where all people and religions were regarded equally without condemnation. Our search began at UUCC six years ago and we never had to look any further. We found our place here with a community of like-minded people and it became our second home, our second family.

Richard and Linda McLeod, Members

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

I come to UUCC because I find here space, time, and gentle help to work on becoming a better person; and a laboratory in which to practice being that better person.

Joe Long, Member

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia