​Religious Education Resources

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​specialty products and support resources!
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Monthly Theme-Based Children RE Packets 

This is our core religious education resource.  It includes three resources in this single subscription:
  • 10 Lower Elementary (K - 2nd grade) packets, one for each month Sept - June,
  • 10 Upper Elementary (3rd - 5th grade) packets, one for each month Sept-June,
  • 10 One-Room Schoolhouse (k - 5th grade) packets, one for each month Sept-June.
We offer all three of these to support the wide variety of programs and wide variety of needs in our UU congregations.  ​

Details 
  • Each monthly packet includes 4-5 weekly sessions.
  • Packets are chocked full (over 25 pages) of stories, experience-based learning activities, embodied chalice lights & extinguishing, games, crafts, hand-ons activities, videos, and more. 
  • ​Based on subscriber feedback, our packets now focus on stories and experiential learning through games and hands-on activities. Not only do we research for the most engaging stories, games and activities, we make sure and offer numerous options of each of those. So there are always multiple stories, games and activities to choose from.
  • Knowing that RE programs differ greatly, we use a "building block" curriculum approach, rather than what might be called a “recipe approach.” So, instead of offering rigid step-by-step lesson plans, we provide numerous and flexible components (i.e. building blocks) that enable you to pick the components and parts to build the program experience that best fits you church culture and kids.
  • Our Director of RE Resources, April Rosario, works with other teammates and strategically-recruited colleagues to ensure that our packets include ARAOMC ("Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppression,Multi-Cultural") and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) resources and lenses throughout our sessions.​
  • All subscribers have access to our RE Leader Facebook page where RE leaders offer support and ideas to each other and the Soul Mattes team posts additional material/ideas.​
  • What's New? In addition to the items above, we've made a number of new content and structural changes to the packets for the 2025-26 season. Check out all of What's New​ by clicking HERE.

Purchase Options
  1. Full Membership: We recommend that you purchase this year's RE packets as part of our "Full Church Subscription," which includes not only our RE packets but also our monthly small group and worship packets. This three-part full church subscription supports a whole-church theme-based model. Click HERE to purchase.
  2. Just RE: You can purchase just our RE packets as a single subscription.
  3. Combo Purchase: Bundle your RE subscription with either our small group or worship packet subscription at a discount. 
  4. Individual Packets: Purchase our monthly packets individually. 
  5. ​Past Year Subscription Lines: Past year subscriptions are available. With these subscriptions you get all 10 packets at once. Purchase them here.

Soulful Home - Supporting Families as Living our Faith in Everyday Spaces

Soulful Home is a monthly guide that helps families explore our monthly themes in their daily lives.

In The Middle - Our Middle School Theme-Based
Our middle school curriculum, providing 4-5 weeks of theme-based sessions every month.
Becoming - Our "Coming of Age" Curriculum 
This program supports youth as they explore, develop and articulate their personal values and faith identity. ​

Crossing Paths - Our “Neighboring Faiths” Curriculum (Jr. High)

Crossing Paths is a Soul Matters twist on the popular UU Jr high youth curriculum, Neighboring Faiths.  While rooted in interfaith engagement, our curriculum is focused on helping youth develop and clarify their own UU identity. 

On The Road Together - Our Youth Group Resource Packets

Our monthly high school youth packets are filled with creative, high quality worship, games, meditations, reflections, stories, art engagement, discussion starters, etc. Think of them as toolboxes full of building blocks to help you create the experiences that are right for your youth and your setting. Each packet is is built around our monthly Soul Matters themes to ensure that your youth are part of the wider theme conversation happening all around your congregation. 
Summer RE Curricula - Three to pick from! 
Many of you asked for simple, easy-to-use summer curricula with fun and deep teachable moments. Now there are three to choose from! 
  • Feeding Our Spirit - Celebrating our UU values and fun in the kitchen!     *brand new!
  • Can Do Summer - Celebrating the "can-do spirit"! 
  • Magic Summer - Celebrating the magic of service, silence and sunshine!

Support Resources

In addition to the packet subscriptions we offer, we provide additional support through... 

Webinars

We offer a growing number of RE related webinars. Some are fee-based but many are free. Our vision is to use our webinars to bring in outside expertise but also to make room for Soul Matters members to share their work and ideas with each other. Check out the archive of our recorded webinars by clicking on the button below.
Want Help Discerning
​Which Resource is Right For You?
Contact April Rosario, our Soul Matters DRE at [email protected]
  For more information contact Susan: [email protected].                           Soul Matters Sharing Circle LLC