Lifespan RE Pages

Overview & Upcoming Events
Religious Education Consultant 
Services for Religious Educators 
*Lifespan RE Department 
Lending Library
Junior Youth Conferences How-To (pdf)
Policies (pdf)

Lifespan Religious Education Department

Our VISION as the New Hampshire / Vermont District Lifespan Religious Education Department (NHVLRED) is to nurture faith development and to support lifespan religious education programming within our district.

Our MISSION as NHVLRED is to provide information, ideas, training, support, communication and advocacy for UU lifespan religious education by encouraging programs of high quality, continuity, safety, and sustainability within our district societies.

NH/VT District Mission

• to cultivate cooperative relationships among member societies
• to promote the religious life of those societies
• to assist member societies to carry on active and effective programs within their respective communities
• to cooperate with the UUA for the promotion and fulfillment of its purpose
  

Lifespan Religious Education Resources

Leadership Resources

Religious Education Library
This collection of books, videos, and other resources is available to all District member societies. To browse the whole catalogue, stop by the District Office or check out the online catalogue. To borrow a book, contact the District Office Administrator.

District Program Consultant
The Program Consultant, Benette Sherman, provides consultation to Religious Educators, Ministers, Youth Advisors, Young Adult Groups, Religious Education committees, congregations and boards.

R.E.Connections

This newsletter is sent quarterly in the congregational packet and is published on the district website. Content of the RE newsletter includes articles on lifespan faith development, youth news, family resources, new resources in RE Library, and an RE calendar of events. Submit questions, ideas, or articles for the newsletter to the district office ( ).

Youth Resources

District Youth Committee (DYC) and District YRUU Conferences: support for youth programming.

Fall and Spring Junior Youth Conferences: organizational support for host churches.

Youth Scholarships to Ferry Beach and Star Island.

Professional Resources

Four regional cluster meetings – Northern Vermont, Southern Vermont, Northern New Hampshire and Southern New Hampshire - of Religious Educators. See the R.E.Connections newsletter or district calendar for meeting dates and locations.

Annual Religious Education Conference:
topical workshops for teachers, parents, DREs, ministers, youth advisors, lay leadership, and individuals including intergenerational worship, lifespan faith development, and fellowship, offered each spring.

Renaissance Modules:
Religious educators’ continuing education intensive workshops, offered biannually

Chrysalis Trainings
Youth leaders and youth advisors’ educational workshops, offered annually

District Conference Workshops:
one workshop offered at each District Conference in the fall and spring

DRE Support for curricula and program expansion, startup workshops for new minister and DRE teams, and exit interviews for departing religious educators.

Program Consultant:

Benette Sherman
603-228-8704 (district office)
603-744-3577 (home office)
bsherman@uua.org

Department Chair:

Sparrow F. Alden
LFSAlden@alumni.bowdoin.edu
603-359-8426