Children and Daycare Centers
First Church is the long-time home of two day care centers: the Beacon Center and Little Miracles. Both centers boast long-tenured staff, one of the best signs of a good child care center. Members of First Church founded the Beacon Center in the early 1980s to exemplify the values of the church.
First Unitarian also draws parents of young children and youth with religious education programs that promotes value-based learning about one's responsibility to one another and to the Earth. The Neighboring Faiths program teaches teens about the importance of other religious traditions and thereby promote open-mindedness and respect. Child dedications, conducted with a thornless rose, are a special rite of passage for Unitarian Universalist families.
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