2025-2026 Children, Youth and Family Faith Formation
Click here for Registration Forms for 2025-2026 Faith Formation programs
Reach out to the Director of Faith Formation for more information or to sign up for programs!
Families that register have access to monthly UU Nashua Family Faith Formation padlet webpages, which include links to resources and stories shared each month, as well as take-home conversation prompts.
Keep scrolling to see what we offer at UU Nashua for children, youth, and families!
Rainbow Room Childcare – 4 & under.
In the Rainbow Room, our childcare staff and volunteers offer young children fun, safe church space on Sunday Mornings.
Video streaming is available in the room, allowing children and volunteers to hear music, words, and the flow of the service.
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Monthly Children’s Chapel
Interactive worship space for children Prek and up followed by children’s worship activities stations in the same room.
Families can partner with our Director of Faith Formation and worship associates to lead a chapel together—great for new families and whole families!
Children’s chapels run from 9:55 to 11:15 once a month. Join us for music, guided meditation, videos, games, and sharing joys and sorrows, as well as wonder box stories and moments.
Children’s Chapel Schedule for Sept 2025-June 2026
- September 14th (special outdoor chapel in the preschool play yard)
- October 5th
- November 2nd
- December 7th
- January 4th
- February 1st
- March 1st
- April 12th
- May 10th
- June 7th
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UU Values Workshop Choices– TWICE A MONTH
K-8th graders may choose UU values activities to explore a common UU theme each month.
Children & volunteers start in the sanctuary at 10:00 a.m. and then depart to their workshop choices through 11:15 a.m.
Starting in September 2025, we hope to return to our UU Nashua Campus!
Workshop Choices will most often include:
- Wonder Activities offering engaging art projects that invite children to say “Wow!” and ask “How?”
- Courageous Community Activities provides community-building games that encourage children to work & play together. This is a great choice for children who enjoy physical activity.
- Love in Action LEGO Activities connects creative building activities with UU stories of justice, bringing more compassion and love to our church and the wider community.
- The Authentic Connections Teens (ACT) Workshop creates a welcoming space for middle and high school youth to connect, play games, and work on service projects that lift UU values.
Workshop Choices Schedule for September 2025-May. 2026
- September 21st & 28th
- October 12th & 19th
- November 9th & 16th
- December 14th
- January 11th & 18th
- February 8th & 15th
- March 8th & 22nd
- April 19th & 26th
- May 3rd & 17th
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Our Whole Lives “OWL” at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua
Parents are children’s primary teachers, but what is society teaching our children about sexuality? Our Whole Lives is an antidote to sexualized media messages, peer pressure, misinformation, and prejudice. It provides accurate, age-appropriate information, situates sexuality within the context of values and personal responsibility, supports healthy decision-making, and fosters social skills. These skills and values help prepare youth to make healthy choices for life.
Our Whole Lives for Kindergarteners & 1st Graders will return in fall 2025
Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education for Grades K–1, 2nd edition, is an eight-workshop curriculum that helps children ages five through seven begin the lifelong process of acquiring information and forming attitudes and values about identity, relationships, safety, and health. Unlike many other sexuality curricula currently available, this program is comprehensive and progressive. In an inclusive and developmentally appropriate manner, it addresses sensitive topics that are typically excluded.
Our Whole Lives for 5th-6th graders starting in January 2026
Click here to learn more about this program!
Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education for Grades 4-6, 2nd edition, is a ten-workshop curriculum designed to help children ages nine through twelve to gain the knowledge, life principles, and skills they need to understand and express their sexuality in holistic, life-enhancing ways.
Like the other Our Whole Lives programs for different age groups, this comprehensive, developmentally appropriate program introduces key topics, such as values, body image, gender and sexual identity, peer pressure, and healthy relationships, with sensitivity and inclusiveness.
Our Whole Lives for 7th-8th graders will return in Fall 2026
Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education for Grades 7-9, 2nd edition, comprises twenty-five ninety-minute workshops that teach caring, compassion, respect, and justice. A holistic program that moves beyond the intellect to address the attitudes, values, and feelings that youth have about themselves and the world. New topics include body image, social media/internet, bullying/bystander responsibilities, and consent education.
Contact us at the Unitarian Universalist church of Nashua if you would like to learn more about the possibility of this program for your family.
dff@uunashua.org or call 603.882-1091 ext 203
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Coming of Age
In this year-long program previously called ROPES (Rites of Passage Experiences), youth in 8th & 9th grades are invited to:
- Gather twice a month on 2nd & 3rd Sundays from 4-6pm from Sept-May to reflect on what it means to be Unitarian Universalist
- Learn with peers and UU adults about our faith
- Justice learning and service trip to Boston in the Fall
- Visit Boston for a UU History tour in the Spring
- Build individual faith statements called a Credo
This is our Rite of Passage year for youth, formerly called ROPES at UU Nashua.