Synergy Worship

About the Service

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

The Synergy Worship Service will be available in the General Assembly 2024 event on the Whova event app. GA registration is required. The event will be livestreamed Thursday, June 20, 2024, 7:00 - 800 p.m. EDT. / 6:00 p.m. CDT / 5:00 p.m. MDT / 4:00 p.m.

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 adult projects, conferences, outreach, and more. Donate to the Katie Tyson Fund.

There will be a gathering, hosted by the Lifespan Faith Engagement office, after Synergy, for bridgers to be honored 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.

Because we recognize that young people have a different experience with virtual gatherings and thus this year's bridgers may not be present at the broadcast of Synergy or may prefer an in-person bridging experience, we are inviting anyone who bridges in 2024 to also join us in Baltimore 2025, on the Synergy stage, to be honored and welcomed into the YA community.

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