YRUU

YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalists) is youth ministry program for high-school-age students.

All YRUU members must sign and abide by the YRUU Covenant and Behavior Rules and provide personal and parental contact information.

We define the mission of YRUU as fostering a loving, supportive community wherein teens and young adults can deepen their understanding of themselves and forge stronger relations with one another through fellowship, spirituality, leadership, learning, and social action – affirming the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism through thought and action.

Some YRUU activities recur regularly. For instance, YRUU prepares and serves a brunch after the Easter worship service each year and often conducts a lay-led worship service in the Spring.

Other activities are planned by YRUU members and their adult advisors. Examples of the dizzying array of past activities include:

• Float trips

• Babysitting for church members who need to do gift shopping during the Christmas season

• Fundraising with cookie and bake sales, car washes, ec.

• Presenting occasional lay-led worship services

• Holding lock-ins, sometimes to plan their worship services or other activities

• Holding forums on subjects of interest to teens - such as a forum on the military draft and conscientious objection

• Visiting other churches, mosques and synagogues.

• Holding "movie nights" to view and then discuss serious movies

• Taking trips to distant cities and locales with an adult chaperone, including Habitat for Humanity trips and a volunteer work trip to New Orleans.

• Engaging in service projects such as raking leaves for older members of the congregation

• Conducting discussions on religious and social topics

• Volunteering at animal shelters

• Stargazing

• Investigating alternative sprituality such as paganism

• Scavenger hunts

For more information about YRUU, call the Church Administrator, Kathie Bergman, at 573-442-5764, or send her an email.