The Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries is making available grants for youth to form and lead http://www.uua.org/religiouseducation/multigenerational/read/index.shtm… Read groups and will publish guidelines and applications for this over the next few weeks. Following up on last year's...

Welcome to Blue Boat, a new blog hosted by the UUA’s Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries! Blue Boat is a space to share stories, successes, resources and information for youth, young adult and campus-based groups and individuals, as well as the advisors and staff who work with them. It...

New Guide for Congregations: How to Start, Build and Sustain Campus Ministry Download the online resource "Being More Visible, Changing More Lives: A UU Campus Ministry Group Handbook for Congregations." This comprehensive and detailed guide will walk you and your congregation step-by-step throug...

Q. A 16-year-old girl whose parents do not attend our church is attending our Exploring Membership class....

Sometimes it's not the big things we do for children, but the little things that show how much we care for them and how vital they are to our religious communities. Certainly it's important that we pair adults and children in Secret Pal Sundays and do Youth Sundays and Religious Education Sundays.

Q. We are dealing with a class that has a couple of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and the teachers are having difficulty. Any ideas? A....

For three years, Stefanie Samara Hamblen, director of children and youth programs at the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Fellowship in Gainesville, FL (290 members), met every Sunday night with the three teenage boys who comprised the congregation's youth group.

Q. What should the Sunday morning experience include for children? A. What I would like to see kids get on Sunday morning: I would like to know that every week, when a child walks out the door, she is at least a little glad she came....

Coming of age (COA) ceremonies, marking the transition from childhood to young adult, are as old as history. They have included ritual abductions, vision quests, and bar and bat mitzvahs, all to help youth learn about themselves and prepare for adulthood....

What do you do when you're asked to help at a school with no windows? If you're a member of High Street Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church in Macon, GA (122 members), you make windows....

The voice of experience belongs to Deirdre Shaw when it comes to attracting young adults to Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations. Three times in ten years she tried to form a Young Adult group in her own congregation. Twice she failed. But the third time she succeeded and now on any given...

Q. We're concerned about all the ways that members are getting asked for money at church. There are the musicians that bring tapes, Girl/Boy Scouts/school fundraisers, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the collection plate, the service auction, regular/capital pledges, a church used book...