We gather to express our gratitude for all the blessings we receive from our ESUC community, to honor all the people in this congregation whose legacy inspires us to build the Beloved Community. Join us as we honor our church leaders, Ministry Team members, volunteers, and staff.
Join Director of Religious Education for two Sunday workshops for parents as sexuality educators. All are welcome.
This ten-workshop curriculum is designed to help children ages nine through twelve to gain the knowledge, life principles, and skills they need to understand and express their sexuality in holistic, life-enhancing ways. Like the other Our Whole Lives programs for different age groups, this comprehensive, developmentally appropriate program introduces key topics like values, body image, gender and sexual identity, peer pressure, and healthy relationships with sensitivity and inclusiveness, yet without specifically religious doctrine or reference. There is a mandatory parent/child orientation.
A cornerstone comprehensive sexuality education program based in values where teens explore decision making, body image, and other life issues in a safe environment. Curriculum includes topics such as self-awareness, body awareness, values, language, anatomy, physiology, gender roles, gender equality, and relationship skills. In order to support learning and group trust levels, regular attendance is expected. Our Whole Lives is a 24-session course, with some extracurricular outings and overnights to build community. Junior Youth OWL start at 10:30am in their classroom in the Education building.
Little Uu’s Nursery - ages 1-5 - focus on the early stories, songs, and spiritual practices of Unitarian Universalism, a loving faith tradition. Our preschool is very hands-on, play-based, and experiential because that’s how children learn best. Little Uu’s start in the Sanctuary for the beginning of worship, and then go to their class with RE Volunteers.
Students, join us for impactful weekly gatherings, fun experiences, and life-changing adventures for both high school ages. Youth group meets in person at the church. We trade off between games, snacks, and community service here at East Shore and adventures out in the community. Students and advisors work together to plan and carry out a wide variety of activities, worships, discussions, community service, and social justice projects throughout the year. Youth can not only relate to, but help lead, in our programs! Kids are welcome to join for some or all events. We greet and welcome students of all, any, or no faith background who seek an inclusive and supportive environment for their adolescent years.
Spirit Makers - ages 5-9 - focus on the early stories, songs, and spiritual practices of Unitarian Universalism, a loving faith tradition. Our elementary class is a theme based curriculum, weaving the central story and topic from our Sunday worship into multi-sensory, multi-dimensional learning methods that kids can relate to! Our time together is inspired by Montessori, Spirit Play, and Maker Space pedagogies and is hands-on, play-based, and experiential because that’s how children learn best. Spirit Makers start in the Sanctuary for the beginning of worship, and then go to their class with RE Volunteers.
Join fellow Church members and other UU Churches in solidarity after Church service for a Black Lives Matter Flash Stance in Issaquah at the corner of SE 56th Street and Eastlake Sammamish Parkway SE by the McDonalds.
This course is for individuals who want to take their knowledge and skills to the next level in terms of trans identity and how to create congregations that are fully inclusive and affirming of the full breadth of gender diversity.
All those who identify as women are invited to share a potluck dinner before, and discussion after, a showing of “Sex: Female."
You are invited to the next East Shore Grounds work party on Saturday, March 18 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. If you would like, bring a sack lunch and come join our fellowship lunch around noon. Come for any amount of time to help out and see the progress that the Grounds Team has made during the past months:
Memorial Garden: New name tags have been attached to memorial plants in memory of our beloved East Shore members who have passed away. Wax Myrtles and Hicks Yews planted along the north wall to form an evergreen privacy screen between the condos and the Memorial Garden. Wood chips were spread for mulch. Frittalaria native bulbs planted at the entrance, edges of the gravel pathway cleaned, and trees and ferns pruned.
The Equinox is a time of balance in the earth’s year. The nights and days are of equal length. It is the still point in the great ebb and flow of light into dark and dark into light again. The turning of the seasons is the turning of the wheel. Let us gather to celebrate the return of Spring.
This ten-workshop curriculum is designed to help children ages nine through twelve to gain the knowledge, life principles, and skills they need to understand and express their sexuality in holistic, life-enhancing ways. Like the other Our Whole Lives programs for different age groups, this comprehensive, developmentally appropriate program introduces key topics like values, body image, gender and sexual identity, peer pressure, and healthy relationships with sensitivity and inclusiveness, yet without specifically religious doctrine or reference. There is a mandatory parent/child orientation.
A cornerstone comprehensive sexuality education program based in values where teens explore decision making, body image, and other life issues in a safe environment. Curriculum includes topics such as self-awareness, body awareness, values, language, anatomy, physiology, gender roles, gender equality, and relationship skills. In order to support learning and group trust levels, regular attendance is expected. Our Whole Lives is a 24-session course, with some extracurricular outings and overnights to build community. Junior Youth OWL start at 10:30am in their classroom in the Education building.
Little Uu’s Nursery - ages 1-5 - focus on the early stories, songs, and spiritual practices of Unitarian Universalism, a loving faith tradition. Our preschool is very hands-on, play-based, and experiential because that’s how children learn best. Little Uu’s start in the Sanctuary for the beginning of worship, and then go to their class with RE Volunteers.