Children’s and Youth Religious Education
Wildflower strives to support parents by providing a meaningful religious education program
that makes a positive difference in children’s and youth’s lives.
Ages of Children We Serve
Our children and youth religious education (CYRE) program serves children PK-8th grade . Our program follows a “one room school house” model of mixed-age learning. The lessons and activities allow all ages to explore big questions and ideas together in a flexible, joyful, and inclusive environment. The second Sunday of each month is a Zoom-only church service with no in-person CYRE program. The CYRE program meets on the first, third, and fourth Sundays of the month.
What Happens on Sunday?
Children and youth stay with their parents for the first 15 minutes of the worship service, which begins at 11:45 am. After the congregation “sings the children and youth out,” teachers lead them to their classes. The children’s program ends at about 1:00 pm, after the Worship Service ends. To promote child and youth safety, two adults are present in childcare and all classes. In accordance with our Safe Church policy, all RE teachers and care providers undergo background checks.
What do we teach in CYRE?
JET ❤️ PIG
art by Indigo Azul
As Unitarian Universalists, we promise to work together to center these shared values in our world and community:
Justice –Work for everyone to be treated with fairness and respect.
Equity –Make sure everyone gets what they need (not always the same as what others need).
Transformation –Remember that we are all learning and change is possible (and expected!)
Pluralism –Listen to all voices, knowing there’s always more than one right way.
Interdependence –Be someone others can depend on and know that your actions affect others.
Generosity –Share generously, both physical materials and also what’s in our minds and hearts.
and we put Love at the center of all we do
From “JETPIG Cooperative Challenge Curriculum Written by Sara Krakauer”
Find out more about our program!
Getting Started in Religious Education
Before your child’s first Sunday in the religious education program, please register them by filling out a Registration Form. Parents are always welcome to visit the RE and childcare classes.
The Unitarian Universalist faith doesn’t pretend to give children all the answers to the big questions. Unitarian Universalism puts its faith in people’s ability to explore the unknown together.
Religious Education News/Blog
Wado to Central Texas Cherokee Township!
Wado to Central Texas Cherokee Township for our Grow Corn, Grow Communities a Hominy Making Workshop On Sunday, October 19, 2025, Doug Martin and his son spoke, taught, cooked, and shared stories with our Children and Youth Religious Education (CYRE) class and after...
Grow Corn, Grow Communities: a Hominy Making Workshop presented by The CTCT Three Sisters Program
Join us for an afternoon of transformation: it's time to prepare and eat our community garden's corn! Sunday, October 19, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmCommunity Room of Wildflower Church1314 E Oltorf Street, Austin TX 78702 Doug Martin (Central Texas Cherokee Township...
Our first corn harvest! Three Sisters Garden update
Wildflower member Brandy Nichols displays our first harvest of corn this year from our Faith Garden (a community garden shared by Faith Presbyterian Church, Wildflower Church, and our community friends and neighbors). The corn is the first crop from our Three Sisters...
The Wildflower Library Refresh
Gratitude post for Wildflower youth Tulio for volunteer a few weeks of his summer for a refresh of our library. He spent a few weeks cleaning our community room bookshelves, cataloging books into an online database, moving some of archival materials into storage, and...
Blessing of the Backpacks
We had a lovely Blessing of the Backpacks to kick off our new school year -- and the fall generally! Everyone left with a "Powered By Love" tag since love is the driving force behind all of our newly adopted values (Justice, Equity, Transformation, Pluralism,...
Recognizing our Community’s Milestones
Milestone Sunday, May 19, 2024 recognizing the milestones of both our Wildflower church community, and the milestones of our 2024 Wildflower HS Scholarship recipients (open to graduating seniors of Travis ECHS).
Milestone Sunday, May 19th, 11:45 am
Congratulations on your achievements! From infants to adults, we want to celebrate you! Our Milestone Sunday Service will be held Sunday, May 19th, 2024, at 11:45 am. Please let us know about important milestones for which we should recognize you or someone else. We...
All-ages Easter Fun
We had a great time learning about Easter's pagan and Christian roots and decorating cake-shaped cookies yesterday! Our all-ages event culminated with a new type of Easter Egg Hunt. Instead of searching for eggs filled with candy, our young Wildflowers hunted for dog...
March 24 classes
We had a great Sunday together this week! In our elementary group, we talked about the Transgender Day of Visibility coming up next week. The kids had great ideas about why such a day is needed and about ways to be welcoming and not make assumptions about new friends!...
Feb 18 Kids & Youth
For this week's class, our elementary group explored our 7th UU Principle: We believe in caring for our planet Earth and all living things. We began by brainstorming ways that we are all part of the interconnected web of life and the ways that we can communicate with...