At the Unitarian Society of Germantown, we encourage Wonder, Compassion, Mindfulness, Service… and Fun!

Our summer CSD program started on Sunday, June 28th!

What does a summer Sunday morning look like? 

When you arrive at USG during the summer, kids ages 3-12 can head directly to Sullivan Chapel. There will be no Time For All Ages during worship. We’ll be doing awesome activities all together. Parents can plan to pick up their kids outside after service finishes. In case of inclement weather, we’ll stay in Sullivan and you can find us there. 

Our 12+ youth are welcome to join the main activity OR they can participate in Dungeons and Dragons. For our kids under age 3, the Wiggle Room will remain open and staffed over the summer!

Childcare will only be provided until 12:30 during the summer. But we still encourage you to stay and hang out on the playground together! 

The thing that doesn’t change is how much fun we have! Summer CSD is all about doing cool, creative, and embodied things together. We’re looking for adults from the congregation for a few Sundays to bring an activity, project, craft, or game that they think is AWESOME or help someone else who has signed up to lead. Some examples from the past include tie-dying, walking the labyrinth, air-dry pottery, and potion making. We also need helpers that aren’t necessarily leading an activity, but are excited to be part of our multigen community. This is a relaxed and low-stakes way to try out being an adult in CSD! We still need lead and helpers on August 9 and helpers August 16.

Find more information about summer CSD and sign up for one or more Sundays using the buttons below. 

Sign up to be part of Summer CSD!

Structure of Summer CSD

For more about our program, read the 2025-26 CSD Annual Report HERE.

We are recruiting adults to become trained OWL facilitators at USG! Our Whole Lives (or OWL) is a lifespan sexuality education program that fosters informed, responsible, and values-based decisions about sexual health and behavior. USG will run OWL for both a Kindergarten/1st grade cohort and our 7th-9th grade cohort in the fall.

In order to offer these life-changing programs we need a skilled and diverse team of facilitators. Trainings are offered online and in-person. The online trainings are about 25 hours over the course of 3 weeks, in person they are Friday evening, all day Saturday and half a day Sunday. For those that can commit to doing the training and helping run OWL in the fall, USG will pay the $350 registration fee. Please reach out to Zoë if you are interested in getting trained for either age group or want more information. 

Please REGISTER your child or youth. We appreciate a new registration form each year. Thank you.

Check out the CSD guide! Inspired by our Teen Zine Night and the CSD service on creativity, we made a guide to CSD in the form of a zine. You’ll find a schedule of what to expect on Sundays, a loose calendar of events for the year, and some information about our age group classes. There will also be printed versions at USG. 

     Our Wiggle Room space is now in the Committee Room, which is at the end of the Dining Room (see note above about temporary move to the Dining Room.) Parents can drop their little ones off with Susan before service starts or keep your kids with you through the Time for All Ages before taking them to the Wiggle Room. 

     The Nursery at the rear of the Sanctuary (the room formerly known as the Wiggle Room) will be available for the very littles and their parents.

We ask that parents pick up their kids from class after service if they are younger than 6th grade. Take a look at where they’ll be! 

• Infants and Crawlers can be with their parents in the Nursery at the back of the Sanctuary 
• Ages 1-3 will be in the Wiggle Room off of the Dining Room
• Preschoolers and Kindergarteners will be next door at the Cooperative Nursery School 
• 1st and 2nd graders will be in Sullivan 1 
• 3rd through 5th graders will be in Sullivan 2
• 6th through 8th graders will be in Daskam Room
• Coming of Age (8th-10th) will be in Sullivan 3 

If you have any CSD questions, please contact Zoë Johnston, USG’s Director of CSD, at dsd@usguu.org. 

The Mission of our Children’s Spiritual Development (CSD) program is to:

• Provide developmentally appropriate education that supports the lifelong process of learning to cultivate goodness, compassion, empathy, and love for oneself and others.
• Offer safe and caring spaces for introspective work, connecting to nature, and building right-relationships in community across generations.
• Put into practice hands-on, experiential education for children, facilitators and parents that cultivates respect, stewardship, service, mindfulness, responsibility, justice, and the search for truth and beauty.
• To welcome young people into the UU community, help them find their way into becoming active members, and provide them opportunities to learn the rich history and guiding principles of UU.

We believe if the mission of CSD is fulfilled it will contribute greatly to fulfilling our overarching mission at USG of: Building beloved community with service, compassion and empowerment.

Please see the weekly CommUUnictor enewsletter for the most up to date info.

We are able to offer CSD because of our wonderful volunteers. Thank you for considering volunteering and click HERE for information and links to the required background checks for volunteers.