Your congregation’s director of Religious Education should provide the official number of those enrolled in Religious Education. The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) asks for this statistic each year as part of congregational Certification of Membership.

How many people (ranging in age from nursery through high school) are currently enrolled in Religious Education? This total should equal the number of children and high school youth who are registered within the congregation’s religious education program.

For safety reasons, the UUA suggest all children be officially registered. If there are children or high school youth who attend Religious Education programs but are not officially registered, you may inclue them in your total count. Please consider registering all participants so that reported totals in the future will include only these children and high school youth who are officially registered.

Beginning in 2025, we now also ask a separate question where you report the number of children and youth under 18 who have been involved in your congregation’s ministries in the past year but are not enrolled in your RE program. Include day camps, summer camps, special events, volunteer opportunities, drop-in spaces, OWL (if separate from RE enrollment), or other programming.