Children's Religious Education & Youth Programs 


The Old Ship Religious Education program creates a meaningful community that values individuals and awakens their sense of wonder, reverence, and self-awareness through fellowship, worship, education, and service.

​In fulfillment of this mission, the R.E. program:
  • Welcomes and accepts all children and Youth, and values the gifts they bring and the people they are.
  • Builds community by celebrating life’s journey, milestones and intergenerational connections.
  • Nurtures spiritual growth and development by fostering the free and reasonable search for (life) meaning and individual truth.
  • Awakens, through ritual, word, song, art and movement, the mystery of living, the reverence for and awe of life.
  • Fosters our children’s U.U. identity by teaching them about our principles and sources, heritage, and traditions.
  • Promotes commitment to justice and ecological sustainability in the world through education, service and social action.

At Old Ship we work to provide a warm and supportive community of Unitarian Universalist faith in which children, youth and adults can grow spiritually, intellectually and ethically.

We understand ourselves to be a community of learners, all of us on a lifelong path of personal discovery, of religious and spiritual growth, of human “becoming.”

Our teachers, mentors and advisors are primarily volunteers, lovingly invited into this most important work. In addition to the subject matter of each course, our program seeks to inspire wonder and wondering, empathy and compassion, truth-searching and decision making. 

We hope that we will all experience what it means to belong to a local community of caring, as well as what it means to be a part of a world community. 

Programs (see Events > Calendar  for more details)
  • Faithful Journeys (Kindergarten - Grade 5) 
  • Neighboring Faiths / Building Bridges (Grades 6-7)
  • Coming of Age (Grades 8-10) 
  • Father Bill’s Lunch Making - 4th Sunday or each month (all ages)
  • Youth Activities (Grades 7-12)
  • Celebrations (all ages)
  • Interim Work with Deb Weiner, Transitional Religious Education Consultant (whole congregation)
Please register below.

Thank You Volunteers
Thanks to all who have volunteered and are getting these programs ready. If you’d like to join in on any of the above activities, and/or add a program, and/or be on the committee, please let us know.

Acting Director of Religious Education
We are intending to hire a part-time acting director of religious education 

For more information
Please see Breeze (oldshipchurch.breezechms.com), upcoming emails, or call the office at 781.749.1679. Thank you!