Come join this community regularly! We hope to see you and your child/ren here often at the Unitarian Church of Montreal. And let us know how we can further support your family.
Steady attendance can support your family AND also help us to provide a better religious education program. Your child will feel more comfortable in his/her setting and be better able to cope with ideas presented sequentially. From our end, teachers are able to plan and teach more effectively if they know who is going to be in their classes.
Parents value a grounding in faith for their children as highly as they value literacy, but… are unclear about how such faith might be nurtured. They underestimate the importance of intentional guidance, and culturally there are few reminders or supports for them. . . . Most parents value the power of moral and ethical development as highly as they value math skills, but perhaps they do not see that these religious dimensions of their children’s development need a structure and a community to guide them, just as their secular education does.
---From The Gift of Faith, Tending the Spiritual Lives of Children
by Jeanne Harrison Nieuwejaar, Unitarian Universalist minister
