Our Religious Education Program  is a cooperative venture that serves families and nurtures children and youth with joy and care.

One key element of our ministries with kids and families is Religious Education. During the church program year (mid-September through early June), Religious Education (RE) for children in Kindergarten through 9th grade, youth group for high schoolers, and childcare for the littlest ones is offered most Sundays. On most Sundays, children and youth start their morning at church in worship with the congregation and then are dismissed to their age-specific programming partway through.

Our RE classes are broken out by age (see dropdown menus below for more details), offering children and youth an opportunity to build deep and meaningful relationships with their peers, while also enjoying opportunities on Sundays and throughout the year to be in multigenerational community with folks younger and older than them.

On some Sundays throughout the year, we will offer a particularly all-ages-engaging, ritual-centered, family-friendly, and intergenerational worship service. On those days worship will serve as our Religious Education and we encourage children and youth to join their families and friends in worship.

On Sundays during certain holiday weekends (for example, Thanksgiving weekend or President’s Day weekend), we will not offer our regular Religious Education programming but will instead offer an opportunity for kids and youth of all ages to participate in a Children’s Chapel or Faithful Funday.

We welcome and have created space for your family, and we are always looking at new ways to make UU Schenectady accessible and welcoming to people of all ages. If you have questions or hopes for your child’s ability to participate in our programming, please reach out directly to Jamie Gargano, our Director of Lifespan Religious Education, at DLRE at uuschenectady dot org. 

2026-27 classes:

K-2nd

We’ll be learning UU values through stories and activities.
Click here to Register for K-2.

3rd-4th

We’ll be learning UU values through stories, activities and projects.
Click here to Register for 3-4.

5th-6th

We’ll be learning UU values through stories, activities and projects.
Click here to Register for 5-6.

7-8th — Coming of Age: A Modern UU Rite of Passage

Offered every other year, the Coming of Age program at Unitarian Universalist Society Schenectady typically offers seventh and eighth graders an engaging and structured atmosphere in which to explore significant issues at this transitional stage of life.
Click here to Register for 7-8 COA.

Read more: Coming of Age: A Modern UU Rite of Passage

9th-12th Youth Group

We’ll be learning UU values by thinking deeply about how our values fit into the current world, creating projects that exhibit UU values in action and the youth group will be participating in weekly UU services.
Click here to Register for 9-12 Youth Group.