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YES-UU (Junior High)

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

YES-UU Jr. High Youth are…exploring their spirituality and community!
Junior high youth ages 12-14 are invited to join the Youth Exploring Spirituality Youth Group! Youth programs include a variety of curricula to develop a great sense of self and connect with your values in service to yourself and the greater good. Jr. High youth typically participate in Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education and Coming of Age youth development programs. Following Coming of Age, youth are encouraged to become members of ESUC.

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YUUP (High School)

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

YUUP High School Youth are…becoming who they want to be in the world!
Young Unitarian Universalist Project is a safe and encouraging place for high school students to meet, engage with their values, and contribute to the ESUC vision and mission of an awesome and inclusive community. At this time in their lives, youth have the need to form community, explore their values, and deepen their engagement. YUUP rotates programming between games, snacks, field trips and youth conferences in the region. We encourage and support youth to lead, plan, and invite their friends to join!

Music Sunday

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

East Shore is richly blessed with a diversely musical community. This service celebrates many of our musical members and guests, from the East Shore Mighty Choir to the East Shore All Stars (featuring John Chmaj, Noel Barnes, Tom Ball, George Gatins and more) to violists Barb Clagett and Rafael Howell. Several special musical guests will appear this service - we want to keep them a surprise! Come celebrate life with song and exaltation!

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Family Programs

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Are you looking for a nurturing and inclusive environment for your children to explore their spirituality? Look no further than our Kids and Youth Programs! Register online today and we'll get your family connected to a peer group of kids and all our wonderful programs.

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Family Covenant Circle

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

CAREGIVERS in every stage and configuration are welcome. The ESUC Family Covenant Circle (FCC) is meeting in person and virtually for a multi-platform option. FCC is a group of East Shore families with children 0-18 where the adults share and support one another in the journey that is family life!

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Millennial Meetup

Are you a Millennial (born between 1981ish-1996ish)? Nicole Duff is putting together an outing right after worship in Factoria. This is just an opportunity to be social and get to know one another. If interested, please contact Nicole for more information.

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Intro to Paganism

Online Event

Do you feel a deep connection to nature and are longing to express that feeling through ritual? Are you interested in learning more about earth-based spirituality? Join ESUC member LeAnne Struble and other members of the Salish Sea CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) ministry team for a journey into paganism, one of the sources of our UU faith. In five one hour online sessions with music, ritual, hands on learning, and discussion, we will explore this important perspective that encompasses both the ancient and the modern.

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Unexpected Economics

Online Event

This class utilizes economic thinking to illuminate a wide range of topics not typically understood to be economic in nature-from how we choose a mate to why we vote the way we do. If you’ve read any of the Freakonomics books or listened to the Freakonomics podcast then you will be familiar with the sorts of topics covered in this class such as Marriage as a Search Market, Terrorism as an Occupational Choice, Small Choices and Racial Discrimination, and Obesity – Who Bears the Costs? Led by Alan Carter.

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Sacred Stiches

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Are you interested in participating in an arts & crafts group at ESUC? Do you have an unfinished project that you would like to finish while connecting with the community? Do you love to sew, quilt, knit, crochet, embroider, paint, do calligraphy, make jewelry, and more? Would you like to teach or learn these skills? Let’s get together to have fun doing all the things that bring us joy and an opportunity to distress and build community. All ages welcome!

Fourth Wednesday Book Club: All Boys Aren’t Blue

Online Event

Join us as we read All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson. In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

Women’s Perspective Walk: Kelsey Creek Park

Off Site WA, United States

All those who identify as women are invited to join East Shore friends for a lovely walk in the beautiful Kelsey Creek Park! Meet there (410 130th Place SE, Bellevue) at 10am to stroll and chat. Plan to stay for lunch nearby, restaurant TBD.

Seabeck 2024: Sending You Light

Off Site WA, United States

The Seabeck UU Retreat is an intentionally inclusive and multi-generational annual church retreat over Memorial Day weekend at the Seabeck Conference Center overlooking the Olympic mountains on the Hood Canal The retreat offers Something for Everyone and is a wonderful way to get involved and more connected with members of East Shore, University Unitarian and the Northlake UU congregations.

CANCELED: Live from Seabeck!

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are not able to stream the service from Seabeck, but you can relive Music Sunday!

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Black Lives Matter Flash Stance: Kirkland

Kirkland - BLM Flash Stance 3rd St & Central Way, Kirkland, WA, United States

Join fellow Church members and other UU Churches in solidarity after Church service for a Black Lives Matter Flash Stance in Kirkland at the NW corner of Peter Kirk Park next to the transit center.

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Unexpected Economics

Online Event

This class utilizes economic thinking to illuminate a wide range of topics not typically understood to be economic in nature-from how we choose a mate to why we vote the way we do. If you’ve read any of the Freakonomics books or listened to the Freakonomics podcast then you will be familiar with the sorts of topics covered in this class such as Marriage as a Search Market, Terrorism as an Occupational Choice, Small Choices and Racial Discrimination, and Obesity – Who Bears the Costs? Led by Alan Carter.