Welcome to The Community Church of New York Religious Education for Children & Youth!
Our Religious Education Programs are currently happening online. As circumstances shift, we look forward to safely re-integrating in-person Religious Education with children & youth, to create a blended set of options for meaningful connection, 6 ways from Sunday.
We're so glad you're here!
At Community, we practice the following policies and we encourage RE Families to follow these policies as well:
What we ask of parents:
- Do not leave children unsupervised during Zoom sessions. You don't have to sit with them, but be within earshot in case of technical issues or questions.
- Video should remain ON for the duration of the RE session. This is so that the children build relationships and stay connected to each other and their teachers.
- Children should be fully clothed before coming onto Zoom calls.
What RE teachers will do on our end to prevent any problems from occurring:
- There will be two RE teachers present in every zoom session.
- RE teachers will have security controls as host and co-host of the sessions.
- The private chat function will be disabled during Zoom sessions to prevent private conversations, discursiveness and to help maintain safer online spaces.
- The screen sharing function will be allowed for children/youth only when they’ve received permission to share a project or item relevant to the program.
- All Zoom session links will be shared only with registered families.
- While we welcome new RE families with children & youth anytime, we ask that folks follow the free registration process to help maintain safer online spaces, and attendance accuracy.
We encourage all parents and caregivers to actively participate in their child's Religious Education experience.
Feel free to reach out to us at anytime, for anything. Email
jnovenski@ccny.org.
Peace & Blessings,
Jil Novenski
Director of Religious Education for Children & Youth