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.

With General Assembly 2026, we’re imagining some new creative possibilities for a pre-recorded Synergy. Because of this, there will not be a specific time slot for Synergy on the General Assembly schedule.
Additionally, the UUA Lifespan Faith Engagement Office wants to celebrate your 2026 Bridgers—youth transitioning from high school experiences into young adulthood. Here are a few opportunities:

Want Bridger necklaces for your Bridging Youth? LFE will provide one necklace per bridger for free. See a sample and send in a request via this form by Sunday, March 15, 2026.

For a video celebration at GA, please submit names of Bridgers by Friday, May 1, 2026. Additionally, youth groups are invited to create and upload artwork symbolizing our Shared UU Values to be used in the celebration video, also due byFriday, May 1, 2026. 

Another World is Possible: Synergy 2025

Check out our previous Synergy, from General Assembly 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 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.

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.