Even experienced religious educators and born UUs can encounter new abreviations. Check out what we have here and if the term you're searching for isn't here, return when you find out what it means and add it. If you use acronyms that already exist in your postings, Moodle will create an automatic link to this glossary. If you don't see the link please add your acronym to this list.
Much of the original entries in this glossary were adapted from a list compiled by the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministries of the UUA.
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 | APF | |
| (Annual Program Fund) A source of income for the UUA, to which each congregation is requested to contribute a certain amount. | ||
| ARE | |
| (Adult Religious Education)
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| AYS | |
| (About Your Sexuality) A UUA-published curriculum for use in UU Youth groups. This curriculum has been replace by OWL. | ||
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| C*UUYAN | |
| (Continental Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network) - The UU network for Young Adults aged 18 - 35. | ||
| CAYRE | |
| (Children And Youth Religious Education) | ||
| CLF | |
| (Church of the Larger Fellowship) An organization for people who do not belong to a local church. They have an office at the UUA headquarters and put our a monthly publication called Quest. Many religious educators are members of CLF. Its website (www.uua.org/clf) is an excellent source of RE materials for children, youth and adults, as well as for parenting resources. It has recently added some online adult RE courses. | ||
| COA | |
| Coming of Age - Usually refers to programming for middle school or early high school youth to help them understand UUism and their own belief more fully and begin to be able to articulate them. More generally it can refer to programming for all ages of children that begins with Naming/Dedication ceremonies and includes several steps that end with Bridging as a high school senior. | ||
| Con Con | |
(Continental Conference) The annual YRUU Continental Conference which is held in a different region of the continent each year. As of 2005, Con Con is on hiatus. | ||
| CRE | |
| 1. (Children's Religious Education)
2. (Credentialed Religious Educator) An experienced religious educator who has successfully completed a program of education and reflection about religious education. The credentialing program is designed to strengthen Unitarian Universalist religious education through the professional development and accountability of professional religious educators. It helps to nurture the call to religious education as a profession, provides a comprehensive path for professional development, articulates and upholds professional standards and guidelines, and encourages meaningful institutional recognition of professional achievement. Administration of the program is the responsibility of the UUA Religious Education Credentialing Office in the Ministry and Professional Leadership staff group. (The last 3 sentences are adapted from the "Program Overview".) | ||
| CU2C2 | |
| (Council of Unitarian Universalist Camps and Conferences) An organization of UU camp sites, conference centers, and regularly occurring conferences. | ||