Sexuality Education

Sexuality Education

"To offer sexuality education in a congregation is to acknowledge that human sexuality is simply too important too beautiful and too potentially dangerous to be ignored in a religious community."
- Rev. Lena Breen, Mt. Vernon, WA

For over 35 years, the United Church of Christ has encouraged churches to study human sexuality and has published life-span comprehensive resources for use not only in the faith community, but also in secular settings.

Our resources, Our Whole Lives-Sexuality and Our Faith , Created in God's Image and Affirming Persons, Saving Lives are age-appropriate, medically-accurate, and have both immediate relevance and applicability for later life.

In addition, they emphasize and underscore the values of love, mutuality, self worth, health, responsibility, justice and inclusivity.

We're Changing Lives

"As a parent, I'm very grateful that the Board of Christian Education and the congregation as a whole have supported the use of the OUR WHOLE LIVES program. This has made such a positive impact on our family in that we're able to have open and frank discussions about topics that would have otherwise been difficult. The difficulty primarily would have been because I would have struggled with how to bring up the discussion, but possibly also because my "child" might not have been so comfortable in discussing. It's almost been the third party in our discussions.

I think there were some who were less than enthusiastic about bringing OWL to First Congregational Church of Long Beach fearing something - I'm not sure exactly. For us, OWL gave ([my daughter]) confidence to own her body and her feelings and the words/ability to discuss "the elephant in the room" - sex and sexuality."

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