Children & Youth

Welcome to Our Programs for Children & Youth

Join Us For a Fun-Filled Faith Journey—Both Online AND In-person!

online Chapel & Learning Workshops (ages 5-17)

Every Sunday on Zoom 9:30am - 11:00am

Our Sunday Online Chapel is a dedicated space for young people to center themselves, share Joys & Concerns, and to connect with friends old and new. We light the chalice together, sing hymns, and make way for movement or meditation as time allows.

Our Learning Workshops begin right after chapel and run until 11:00am. This year in our workshops we're integrating the Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints curriculum with our own original lesson plans. We’re learning how to put faith into action, making art, playing games, writing collective stories and even cooking online!

“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” - Bayard Rustin

A collage of various children and families participating in virtual activities and celebrating, with a background of a house exterior and a schedule overlay that says 'Sundays 9:30am-11:00am on Zoom.'
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in person Chapel & Learning Workshops

Every Sunday in person 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Our church services begin every Sunday afternoon at 2:00pm. Children and youth ages 5-17 are welcome to join us in our dedicated loft space at the front of our sanctuary for a sharing circle, collaborative art projects, story telling and more! We also enjoy intermittent multigenerational services and celebrations and family field trips and service actions!

A flyer promoting a community event with four circular photos. The top left shows children and adults crafting at a table in a room with stained glass windows. The top right depicts a woman and children on a city street, some with masks, blowing bubble soap. The bottom left shows a young boy using a phone at a table with colorful modeling clay and tools. The bottom right features a group of children and adults around a glowing fountain with candles. The flyer text reads: 'Join us!' and details of the event, held Sundays from 2:00pm to 3:00pm at 209 Madison Ave, NYC.
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OWL (Our Whole LIveS) Values-Based Sexual Education

Help is on the way! Providing a supportive, values-based, developmentally appropriate learning environment where healthy attitudes, understanding and practices around sexuality can thoughtfully develop is an invaluable resource, especially for the youngest among us, and Community is here to help!

Deb Walker (Assistant Director of Religious Education for Children & Youth) and Karishma Gottfried (Intern Minister) will be leading a free grade 5-6 OWL class this spring and all are welcome.

This class will happen over the course of four Saturdays in February. It’s free, conveniently located in midtown Manhattan, and designed to give parents a chance to either relax on site or venture out for the afternoon as you wish.

First Info Session (on Zoom) Tuesday, Dec.9th at 7:30pm

Mandatory Parent Orientation (in person) Saturday, January 31st, Noon-3:00pm (lunch served)

SAVE A SPOT! Complete the interest form here

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For more details contact Deb Walker at dwalker@ccny.org

FUSE YOUTH GROUP

Fridays at 6:15 PM ET

Every Friday on Zoom, teens in grades 9-12 meetup online to talk about and create multimedia projects around different ways of being and believing. You can make new friends, learn how to connect in positive and generative ways even when you may share very fundamental differences, and build skills through creative collaborative projects! Right now we’re working on issue #2 of our zine publication, and in the spring we’ll be developing a podcast!

For more, see the FUSE landing page at ccny.org/fuse

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Youth Zine Project - Now Accepting Submissions!

Our youth are working on a new publication, inviting art and creative writing submissions that explore spirituality, belief systems and big questions. Your perspective matters! Children & Youth of all ages can be part of the project. Click the submission link to see the mission statement and specs for entries, and send yours in! For more, see the FUSE landing page at ccny.org/fuse

A poster for 'FUSE: A Teen Zine Project' features a painted image of an elderly woman and a young girl facing each other, with the woman’s face on the left and the girl’s on the right. The text overlay reads 'FUSE: A Teen Zine Project' and 'Igniting Conversations on Ways of Being and Believing.'
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SUMMER YOUTH JUSTICE ART SHOWS

Each year, youth at the Community Church of New York are Invited to participate with Gallery35 to create online summer exhibitions!
Click on the images to below to view the exhibitions!

Poster for the Fourth Annual Summer Youth Justice Art Show featuring transformation and change themes. Includes images of hands, a blurred figure, and flowers, with logos for Gallery 35 at Community and The Community Church of New York.
Poster for an art exhibition titled 'See You See Me' with images of faces and hands with crowns, promoting a youth photography exhibition from July 1 to August 31, 2022, at The Community Church of New York and Gallery 35.
Graphic poster for the 'Not Just Us' Justice Art Youth Summer Exhibition 2021, featuring a stylized crowd holding protest signs, with a large face and eyes in the background, and details about the event, dates, and sponsors.