Self-Awareness: Coming of Age - a podcast by 1st Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco

Self-Awareness: Coming of Age

This Sunday we celebrate our Coming of Age youth with a special worship service. The worship service is the culmination of a year-long faith exploration program for our youth who are in the 8th and 9th grades. Over the past seven months, the youth have examined their religious identity, gaining self-awareness and deepening their connection to our Unitarian Universalist faith and this church community. They describe their COA experience as a "coming home." They have asked themselves, "What do we believe, and what does it mean to be a UU? How do my values and our community values sustain and support us through challenges? How does our faith guide our justice work?"

Through class discussion, retreats, journaling, mentorship and self-reflection, the six members of this year's Coming of Age class - Day Chionsini, Ryan Connelly, Natasha Janowski, Max Kaplan, Georgia Pori, and Eli Wallace - are ready to offer their credo statements, and share in the duties of leading worship. Joining the COA youth will be their teachers, Alex Darr and Gary Lorentzen, Rev. Buehrens and Rev. Jacks.


Rev. John Buehrens,Senior Minister
Rev. Alyson Jacks, Associate Minister
Alex Darr, Worship Associate
Gary Lorentzen, Teacher
Day Chionsini, Coming of Age Youth
Ryan Connelly, Coming of Age Youth
Natasha Janowski, Coming of Age Youth
Max Kaplan, Coming of Age Youth
Georgia Pori, Coming of Age Youth
Eli Wallace, Coming of Age Youth
Dr. Mark Sumner, choir director
Reiko Oda Lane, organist and bell choir director
Wm. García Ganz, pianist
Kate Offer, song leader
Judy Payne, Trustee
Bill Frank, audio support and tape op
Jonathan Silk, OOS, Sound & Worship Archives/Podcast

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