Common Ground Sundays

Kindergarten through High School

About once a month over holiday weekends and/or school breaks, we will host a program for all grade levels (kindergarten through high school) called Common Ground Sundays. These Sundays are intended to gather and ground our children and youth in a shared project of liberation, resistance, and care for our congregation and our wider community.

On Common Ground Sundays, students in Kindergarten through High School will begin in worship with their grownups. Following A Time for All Ages, they will be led by our Intergenerational Service, Justice, and Leadership Coordinator, Seth Anderson-Matz  to the Cummins Room.

Each Common Ground Sunday will include a mix of:

• brief opening ritual
• multiple relevant hands-on projects options (with multiple learning styles and development ranges reflected)
• representation from a First Universalist committee, ministry, or justice team
• resources from local community organizations
• connections to our monthly worship theme

We hope these Common Ground Sundays will be meaningful opportunities for our children, youth, and adults to forge relationships across age and generational divides, to identify and generate leadership opportunities for our children and youth within the life of the congregation, and to continue cultivating shared experience, wisdom, and compassion within our church community at large.

This program will be in lieu of our regular RE programs, and will follow each of our two regular service times—like all other Sundays at 9:00 am and 11:00 am.

Common Ground Sundays for the 2025-26 church year:

• October 19th (MEA Weekend)
• November 30th (Sunday after Thanksgiving)
• December 21st (Sunday before Christmas)
• January 18th (Sunday before MLK Day)
• February 15th (Sunday before Presidents’ Day)
• NO March Date
• April 5th (Easter Sunday/Spring Break)
• May 10th (Mother’s Day)