Welcome to the 2009-10 GPUC Religious Education Program. I am looking forward to working with our new Minister and our RE Committee to provide a nurturing church school year. The parents, teachers and the RE Committee work hard to offer classes that are nurturing our students in the Unitarian Universalist faith. This year, the Senior class will explore the Old Testament in the first semester and the New Testament in the second semester. The senior's annual Pinery weekend trip is planned for September 18-20th. Lower and Upper Elementary and Juniors will explore our Unitarian Universalist faith the first and second semesters.

Church school begins with a family service in the Chapel on September 13th at 10:30 AM. After the service, please come to the Sophia Fahs wing to register your students and meet the RE Committee for this year. The committee members are:

Committee Chair
Joy Buttiglieri
Lower Elementary Coordinators
Shannon Byrne and Ann Lipsitz
Upper Elementary Coordinators
Anne Marie Hartz and Jennifer Semanision
Junior Coordinators
John Engstrom and Ann Ottenhoff
Senior Coordinators
Sonja Franchett and Michelle Edmonds

GPUC Children’s Choir
Joseph Palazzolo will be directing a GPUC Children's Choir. The ages are Kindergarten through 8th grade. Please sign up with Joseph and receive the Children’s Choir schedule. You may call or email him at 248-582-3281 or jp1music@yahoo.com Your child does have to be registered in the GPUC Religious Education Program in order to sing in the Children’s Choir.

If you are interested in volunteering or donating supplies for the RE Program, please give me a call at 313-881-0420 ext. 12 or email me at julieartis@hotmail.com. I look forward to seeing you on September 13, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.

Julie Artis, Director of Religious Education