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Religious Exploration
Children & Youth
Programming for children and youth includes:
- Sunday morning worship
- Chalice Children
- YoUUth Explorers
- Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education (OWL)
See below for more information for each of these programs. Contact the Director of Religious Exploration at to learn more.
For safety and planning purposes, please register your children here.
Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 AM
All Ages
Location: Skidompha Library, Damariscotta (Porter Hall – use Elm Street entrance)
Start a family ritual of worshipping together each Sunday ~ connect to your spirit, connect to the sacred in life, connect to your faith.
Sunday Morning Chalice Children (September through May) – This program is designed for toddlers and lower elementary children. Children start in worship with their families. Partway through the service, children will leave with their RE leaders and walk over to the Fellowship’s Community Hub.
There will be circle time that includes a story about our Unitarian Universalist values. After story time, children will have time to play. Older children are welcome to participate. Parents are welcome to stay and watch or participate if that would help their child feel more comfortable.
Spread the word. Come join us, and bring friends. We all need a spiritual community more than ever now. Make Sunday morning worship part of your weekly routine for the entire family.
YoUUth Explorers
Most Wednesday nights 5-6:30 PM from September through May
Designed for grades 4-8
Location: 38 Elm Street, Damariscotta
Suggested donation: $200 for the year – but any donation large or small is welcome!
We will explore the Unitarian Universalist values of justice, equity, transformation, pluralism, interdependence and generosity all centered in love. We take an experiential learning approach, using ritual and fun activities, including crafts. We balance playful learning with serious and contemplative moments. All youth are invited to participate no matter your religious affiliation.
Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education
Our Whole Lives (OWL): Honest, accurate information about sexuality changes lives. It dismantles stereotypes and assumptions, builds self-acceptance and self-esteem, fosters healthy relationships, improves decision making, and has the potential to save lives. For these reasons and more, we are proud to offer Our Whole Lives (OWL), a comprehensive, lifespan sexuality education curriculum for use in both secular settings and faith communities.
We partner with First Universalist Church in Rockland to provide OWL K-12.
We have volunteers who are trained to teach OWL for grades K-1, 4-5 and 7-8 and rotate through which levels are taught each year. We also offer OWL for grades 10-12 and adults when there is interest. Request to be placed on an interest list, and receive a direct email when OWL for your child’s level is being offered. Contact .
OWL K-1 is being offered this year. This level has eight sessions that help children begin the lifelong process of acquiring information and forming attitudes and values about identity and relationships, safety and health. Parent & child orientation is on Saturday, October 3 at the First Universalist Church in Rockland. The weekly sessions will be on Tuesdays from 5:15 to 6:15 PM starting October 6 and ending November 17. See the schedule for topics covered in the sessions. We will offer the sessions at two locations (if we have enough participants): Midcoast UU Fellowship’s Community Hub at 38 Elm Steet, Damariscotta AND First Universalist Church in Rockland. Register here.
OWL 4-5 will be offered again in Fall 2027.
OWL 7-8 will be offered again in Fall 2027.
