UNIVERSITY UNITARIAN CHURCH

High School

(9th-12th Grade)

Fill Out the 2025-2026 Family Ministry Registration Form Here!

We ask families to fill out this registration form each year. This ensures we have up to date emergency and contact information, as well as important information about allergies and food restrictions. It also helps us plan appropriately sized programs and events. In this form, you can indicate which groups (Roots, World Religions, etc) you anticipate your child will participate in on Sundays. Please contact Director of Family Ministry, Aria Curtis for any questions about this form or about Family Ministry at UUC.

Our Whole Lives for 8th & 9th Grade:

Our Whole Lives (OWL) is a comprehensive sexuality education program designed to help participants gain the knowledge, values and skills to lead sexually healthy, responsible lives. In this OWL class, youth explore many topics, such as anatomy and physiology, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, dating, pregnancy, contraception, and sexual decision making.


UUC typically offer 8th-9th Grade OWL on an annual basis. In the 2025-2026 program year, we anticipating beginning this class in the winter. Registration will open in the late fall. To stay updated on OWL for teens at UUC, we encourage you to sign up for our Youth Ministry Newsletter. For more information about OWL at UUC, please contact Director of Family Ministry, Aria Curtis.

Coming of Age (9th-10th Grade):

Registration for the 2025-2026 Coming of Age Cohort has closed; please look for information about next year's cohort in the spring or summer! 

Coming of Age (COA) is a rite of passage experience where participants explore their personal and spiritual beliefs.  At the beginning of the year, Coming of Age teens are paired with an adult mentor from the congregation, who offers a sense of guidance and perspective. Together, mentors and mentees explore questions about god, identity, life after death, good and evil, justice-making, and personal purpose. The class works together on a service project and creates a worship service. Coming of Age culminates in a solo vigil and the development of a faith statement, which teens share with the congregation during a special service in May.

Youth Group (9th-12th Grade):

Youth Group meets one Sunday morning per month at 11:15 a.m. in the Servetus Room and plans a weekend Youth Meet Up once per month.

Community is vital to our youth and UUC is committed to providing high schoolers with opportunities to build strong connections with each other here at UUC and at other UU churches in the region. We know that many youth want to catch up on sleep on Sunday mornings and we get that. The life of a high schooler is full. That being said, the welcoming community that UU youth culture offers to teens is unique and vital to those who come to know it. UUC's and regional UU youth programming offers a portal into the UU youth universe, a third place with a deep history that seeks to provide high schoolers a safe place that isn't home and isn't school but somewhere where they can just take a breath, be themselves and explore the person they are becoming. To meet the slightly sporadic community needs of youth, we meet twice a month and we would love for you to join us.


What can you expect at a UUC Youth gathering?

Sunday Morning Youth Group provides a connection point for high schoolers. Join us for a check in and small group discussions that may include spiritual practices, playing games or crafting, faith development or event planning.


Youth Meet Ups vary in nature depending on the offering. Past events include movie nights, game nights, talent/no talent shows to which other regional UU youth are invited, our annual Gingerbread Making event, and service field trips.

All of our events:

  • Seek to create a safe space where teens can explore their values and beliefs; 
  • Emphasize fun, connection, creative projects, social action, and leadership;
  • Include opportunities for discussion, self-expression, faith development and spiritual practices;
  • Will likely involve food!
  • Youth Group also plans one worship service each year. 


Join us! Learn about upcoming youth group events and activities by signing up for the  Youth Programs Newsletter.

All Ages Sundays

September 21, October 19, November 16, December 21, January 25, 2026, February 22, 2026, March 15, 2026 (Youth-led Worship), April 19, 2026, May 17 (Coming of Age Service), June 7, 2026 (Bridging Ceremony for Graduating High School Seniors)

We believe worship is an important part of community and faith development. Once a month, usually on the 3rd Sunday of the month, our entire church community gathers for a meaningful, vibrant, and engaging multi-age worship service. These services often include stories, embodied spiritual practice and ritual, and easy-to-sing music.

Combined Ages Sundays

Several times a year, children and teens gather to celebrate a seasonal UU ritual, holiday or annual event together. Children and youth in grades K-12 are invited to attend:

  • September 14, 2025 - Homecoming Sunday/Water Communion
  • November 30, 2025 - Thanksgiving
  • January 4, 2026 - New Year’s Fire Communion Ritual
  • April 5, 2026 - Easter
  • June 14, 2026 - Children & Youth Annual Meeting

Faith In Action Events (K-12 Family Service Events)

Quarterly Events: October 4, January 19, More TBD

Faith in Action events occur quarterly and invite UUC community members of all ages to gather for meaningful service and community-building. Past events include Green Seattle Partnership work parties spreading mulch and planting pollinator-friendly plants along the Burke Gilman Trail, marching in the annual MLK, Jr. Day March and putting together personal care kits to give to our Tent City 3 (TC3) neighbors.

Serve the UUC Community

Teens at UUC are encouraged to get involved in their church community in a variety of ways:

  • Help with childcare at church on Sunday mornings and/or at other events requiring childcare. Youth can earn volunteer service hours for school or get paid! Teens need to have some knowledge of the UU faith and practices before volunteering in classrooms.
  • Serve on a church committee or team. Be a greeter, bake snacks for Sunday morning coffee hours, or serve as an A/V Tech during services. 
  • Serve the larger community packing lunches or serving dinner for homeless teens, families or adults with the Homelessness Ministries Team. 


Contact Director of Family Ministry, Aria Curtis, or contact a team directly to learn more about these opportunities.

PNW UU Youth Cons

2025-2026 Youth Con Dates:
  • October 25, 2025, University Unitarian Church, Seattle
  • February 6 - 8, 2026, Quimper UU Church, Port Townsend, WA
  • May 15 - 17, 2026: TBD

UU congregations in the Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest actively work together to plan and foster UU youth connections and leadership development opportunities throughout the region. Youth Cons are weekend-long gatherings of UU high school students from many churches in the Pacific Northwest area. During a con, teens meet new people, play games, be silly, have good food, learn new things from each other in workshops, maybe participate in a talent (or no-talent) show, have a candlelit worship at night where they can connect on a deeper level with new friends, often stay up super late (though you don’t have to), and generally create a temporary “UUtopian” society! Regional youth leadership trainings and other youth gatherings may also be scheduled throughout the year. 

UU Summer Camps

UU Summer Camps offer the opportunity to be both a camper and a camp counselor. Middle and high school youth get the opportunity to connect with other UU youth from UUC and from around the Pacific Northwest each summer at:


As campers, these engaging experiences provide fun, adventure, friendship, identity formation, leadership development, faith formation and the opportunity to try out different spiritual practices each summer. As camp counselors, youth build meaningful connections with UUC children and youth, gain leadership skills, and the opportunity to earn a stipend or service hours.