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Adult Involvement
RE Volunteer Opportunities

It takes many volunteers to make the Religious Education Program at UUFG a success. We do need parental involvement, but since it takes a village to raise a child, we also need all UUFG adults to volunteer. Here is a partial list of how you can help the RE Program.

Our Religious Education/Exploration Classes

  • Teach Religious Education classes
  • Become a Warm Heart and assist Religious Education teachers in classroom
  • Substitute for Religious Education teachers when they are absent

Our Special Celebrations and Traditions

Our Greater Community

  • Mentor youth, especially for Coming of Age
  • Attend Youth Advisor training and become a Youth Advisor
  • Attend Children and Youth Religious Education Cooperative (CYREC) meetings

Become a Volunteer:

Volunteer Registration
 
Children and Youth Religious Education Cooperative
Our Children and Youth Religious Education Cooperative (CYREC) meets monthly to organize the many classes, programs, and special events our children and youth need and expect.  When CYREC members decided they wanted OWL training but learned they would have to wait two years before this training was offered in Florida, they worked with the local UCC church to get OWL training scheduled at UUFG.  Overnight a dozen UUFG members signed up to attend this training!  CYREC meetings are characterized by spirited discussion, enthusiastic brainstorming, and the blossoming of new ideas.  CYREC members leave meetings feeling energized, enthusiastic and spiritually fulfilled, like our children as they dance out of their weekly RE classes.
 


Safe Community

At UUFG, we continue to work to make all our programs for Children and Youth safe and nurturing. Two teachers are assigned to every classroom, and background checks are performed on all volunteers, staff, and ministers, anyone who works with our children. No photos of a child will be published without written parental consent. While children wear nametags in their classrooms, nametags are removed before they leave class. Children may play on the playground after Religious Education classes if they have parental supervision.

We will continue to look for ways to improve our safety and welcome your feedback. At UUFG, we feel the time and money that makes this a safe place for all our children are well spent.

Religious Education Registration

All children and adolescents involved in any Religious Education program at UUFG, including Youth Group, must have a current, updated, registration form filled out and on file. A new registration form needs to be filled out annually or whenever a child’s living situation changes. Any time new people wish to attend UUFG Religious Education classes, they can register.Parents, children and youth do NOT need to be members of UUFG to register for and participate in UUFG Religious Education and Youth Group programs.

All Registration Forms can be accessed by the following link: CYREC Forms

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Volunteer in RE

We ask all parents to be involved. There are many opportunities to volunteer. Children benefit when parents become involved!

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville
4225 N.W. 34th Street
Gainesville, FL 32605-1422
352-377-1669

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Email the Ministers and Staff: 

Co-Ministers (Rev. LoraKim Joyner, DVM and Rev. Meredith Garmon, PhD)
Minister of Music (Ruth Lewis)
Director of Religious Education (Jane Edwards)
Office Administrator (Cam Pierce)
Growth Coordinator (Mary Ellen Swanson)
Music Associate (Eddie Neimann)

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