Walk to End Hunger Oct. 17
Westside Food Bank is conducting their 31st 5k Hunger Walk virtually, October 17-24. And the UUSM Hunger Task Force is on the march!
Children & Youth RE News
The Challenges of Parenting: Building Resilience, With Resa Foreman
Parenting can be a joyous experience, allowing us to love another in a most profound way. It can also be exhausting. Good parenting requires patience, empathy, and attunement to the particular needs of your child. This past year presented additional challenges brought on by COVID-19, causing families to spend long stretches of time together with …
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A Skateboarding Ministry for UUSM Youth
An exciting new Skateboard Project will bring together the long history of our area (Venice Beach and Santa Monica) as the birthplace of extreme skateboarding and our beliefs as Unitarian Universalists.
UU Santa Monica Youth RE Family Movie Night (Middle School Edition)
Holding online activities can be a bit of a challenge, but the RE Movie night on Saturday, February 27, was a blast!
Reimagining the Children and Youth Religious Exploration Program
The twelve participants brainstormed as a team about the ways that could really reach out to UUSM’s kids in these difficult times. Discussion turned to the gifts the UUSM community has to offer and how these gifts could be matched up with our kids’ and parents’ needs.
Fall News for Children and Youth RE
This Fall, we will offer a deep dive into anti-racism with a “Growing Anti-Racist UUs” weekly curriculum for Pre-K through Grade 5, and book study groups for older youth and young adults.
UUSM Strikes for Climate Justice
Traveling by Metro, bicycle, and hybrid car, UUSM marchers joined friends from Climate Action Santa Monica and UU of SCV at the rendezvous. We then joined a sea of young climate strikers, along with millions of activists around the world.
UUSM Youth and Adults Clean Up Day 2019 at Ballona Creek
UUSM youth and adults joined Heal The Bay’s Coastal Clean Up Day 2019 on Sunday, September 21. It was one of many events strategically planned around the Global Climate Strike. Our site was the Ballona Creek Bike Path behind Syd Kronenthal Park. This vital waterway feeds into the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve and empties into …
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Exploring Healthy Food in South LA
The Green Living Committee and children in the Religious Exploration program took an August 18 field trip to the Paul Robeson Community Wellness Center.
Fun in the Sun as We Heal the Bay
On Saturday, September 21, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, the UUSM youth invite families and friends to participate in the Heal The Bay Coastal Clean Up Day 2019.