Synergy Bridging Worship

GA 2026 is structured differently from our in-person General Assemblies. GA 2026 is designed as a primarily virtual experience, with optional ways to gather through community gatherings, satellite sites, and a studio site. This model allows us to focus on shared content that can be experienced together across many locations.

Because of this shift, Synergy will not be offered as part of GA 2026. This event is deeply rooted in being together in one space, and we want to honor its full spirit and impact rather than adapt it in ways that might diminish the experience.

We look forward to welcoming Synergy back in 2027, when the GA format can fully support it.

Another World is Possible: Synergy 2025

How do we bridge from where we are to where we want to go? We must imagine another world amidst the challenges. Together we will celebrate our Youth, and honor their dreams, actions, and activism for a better world. Join us in multigenerational worship to dream together of new futures.

About the Service

The annual Synergy Worship Service is a place for the General Assembly to recognize and honor the transition from youth to emerging adulthood.

The Synergy Worship Service will happen live on the main stage of General Assembly 2025 and will be livestreamed through the Whova App. GA registration is required. It is scheduled for Friday June 20, 2025 7pm-8:30pm ET.

The collection taken during the service will benefit the Katie Tyson Fund for Youth and Young Adult Ministries.The fund supports scholarships, grants, and programs for youth and young adults. Donate to the Katie Tyson Fund.

There will be a gathering, hosted by the Lifespan Faith Engagement office, after Synergy, for bridgers to be welcomed by the Youth and Emerging Adult Community. Contact yayaministry@uua.org for more information.

Who’s a “Bridger”?

Overall, it’s someone who’s transitioning to young adulthood, however that means for the individual. Often that’s meant someone at the end of 12th grade or the homeschool equivalent. But for other folks, other milestones (starting a job, leaving a home community) might be more relevant. We trust you to name and claim this moment of transition.

For emerging adults who bridged in 2024, whether they attended virtual GA or not, we also offer the opportunity to be recognized on the Synergy stage and honored as a new emerging adult.

May the gathered community at this year’s General Assembly honor this rich and complicated moment, and in turn, commit and re-commit to creating a more multigenerational Unitarian Universalism.