Religious Educators Week
Saturday, July 11 - Friday, July 17, 2026
Description
Workshops
Conference Leadership
Pricing
Description
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Join us for Religious Education Week at Ferry Beach! We explore faith development, spiritual growth, and leadership in a week for colleagues, friends and families.
Each summer we create a dynamic community of individual congregations and families to form this vibrant multigenerational gathering where all kinds of families work and play alongside religious educators. We come to learn as well as to put into practice what it means to be Unitarian Universalist leaders and be part of a beloved community. This year our intentional community includes child dedications for our community at the beginning of the week in addition to our annual bridging ceremony at the week’s end. There are so many ways we're already shining stars at loving one another: from keeping watch over little ones to sharing our heartfelt stories of life. We take long walks and talks on the beach, laugh together at the fabulous Talent/No Talent Show and watch our children grow up! We'll have so many ways to explore what it means to LOVE in a community and take that love to other communities. Whether you are an overwhelmed introvert, a sunburnt human, or someone who just needs a nap, we all need a little break every day. Although it is so hard to say no to any of the delicious offerings, we want to provide a strong holding space for quiet time as well. Afternoons feature more professional and personal growth opportunities such as themed porch chats, which focus on issues relating to religious education and parenting. There will also be a variety of multigenerational spiritual and “just fun” workshops, as well as time to just relax on the beach, take a walk, or play. Multigenerational evening programs often include a dance, drumming circle, campfire, and the Talent/No Talent show. Programming for the day ends with a Spirit Circle, a time to slow down, reflect, and connect.
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Ferry Beach is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year (2026). Come join us this year as we rejoice in a year of celebration!
Young Adults Work Play Program:
The young adults work/play program is intended for those aged 18-25 to learn the values of work while enjoying fun during their stay. Program participants will work 3 hours a day in one of these areas: maintenance, housekeeping, program/set up, & kitchen/dinning hall. In compensation program participants lodging and conference fee is waived. Participants just pay for meals during their stay. Want to be part of this program? Please fill out the form here and afterwards register here. Photos from previous RE Weeks!
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Workshops
How to Register for Workshops?
To register for workshops, visit your reservation portal on Bookinglayer and click the "Add-Ons & Upgrades section. You can then add on your desired workshop(s).
To register for workshops, visit your reservation portal on Bookinglayer and click the "Add-Ons & Upgrades section. You can then add on your desired workshop(s).
2026 Workshops
Sparks Module:
UU Whole Church Curriculum Development $100.00 (Capacity of 12 individuals) paid to leaders
Nao Bethea, MSW, CRE-LL & Adena Dannouf, CRE-AL
Learning can happen in our UU communities at any time, planned or unplanned - and also, our roles often call us to prepare learning opportunities for many ages in many settings. Join us for a chance to engage with the Curriculum Planning Sparks Module including added considerations for the current culture changes in the Religious Education landscape.
In this Sparks training, we will:
This training will use part of the Curriculum Planning Sparks Module, along with other updated resources and activities selected by the facilitators. It has a $100 fee paid directly to the Sparks Office. Please register separately with the UUA using this link: https://uua.wufoo.com/forms/m1r6ymoa1tkh765/
Leaders:
Nao Bethea, MSW, CRE-LL Bio coming soon.
Adena Dannouf (uh-DEE-nuh dan-OOF, she/they) is serving as the Acting Sparks and Music Leadership Programs Manager. She is a queer, multi-racial, cis woman with glasses and tattoos. Her other identities include mother (to people and pets), partner (of close to 20 years), friend, writer, musician, learner, and Unitarian Universalist. She is a Credentialed Religious Educator at the Advanced Level and has served the congregation in Glen Allen, Virginia as the Director of Lifespan Religious Exploration for over a decade. She has served the UUA in various freelance capacities including a lot of curriculum writing and facilitation. Her passions include music, food, crafting, being with family, and going on adventures.
UU Whole Church Curriculum Development $100.00 (Capacity of 12 individuals) paid to leaders
Nao Bethea, MSW, CRE-LL & Adena Dannouf, CRE-AL
Learning can happen in our UU communities at any time, planned or unplanned - and also, our roles often call us to prepare learning opportunities for many ages in many settings. Join us for a chance to engage with the Curriculum Planning Sparks Module including added considerations for the current culture changes in the Religious Education landscape.
In this Sparks training, we will:
- Clarify and expand an understanding of curriculum, religious education, and faith development;
- Understand the curriculum planning process and consider strategies to use the process effectively in one’s own congregation including how to use curriculum choices and implementation to foster inclusive, multicultural, and multigenerational faith communities;
- Learn about and crowdsource various curriculum sources and where to find them;
- Network and work with other religious educators and be affirmed and nurtured by a supportive community
This training will use part of the Curriculum Planning Sparks Module, along with other updated resources and activities selected by the facilitators. It has a $100 fee paid directly to the Sparks Office. Please register separately with the UUA using this link: https://uua.wufoo.com/forms/m1r6ymoa1tkh765/
Leaders:
Nao Bethea, MSW, CRE-LL Bio coming soon.
Adena Dannouf (uh-DEE-nuh dan-OOF, she/they) is serving as the Acting Sparks and Music Leadership Programs Manager. She is a queer, multi-racial, cis woman with glasses and tattoos. Her other identities include mother (to people and pets), partner (of close to 20 years), friend, writer, musician, learner, and Unitarian Universalist. She is a Credentialed Religious Educator at the Advanced Level and has served the congregation in Glen Allen, Virginia as the Director of Lifespan Religious Exploration for over a decade. She has served the UUA in various freelance capacities including a lot of curriculum writing and facilitation. Her passions include music, food, crafting, being with family, and going on adventures.
Spiritual Practices: Art and Movement $15.00 (Capacity of 20 individuals)
Mandy Neff
Join us for a restorative week of creative practices in art-making and guided movement. Participants will relax their bodies and souls as we explore questions of what we wear for armor, and how and when it might be safe to take it off. In art, we will create masks that help us express aspects of protection and vulnerability. In movement we will explore how to release the tensions we hold in our bodies. Our workshop is rooted in the materials, visual and physical experiences of the local natural environment and influenced by the warm small-group community of the participants.
Leader:
Mandy Neff has served as a UU religious educator for 4 congregations over a 25-year career. She is the author of several curricula for youth. She has served as the President of New England LREDA and currently sits on the board of the Church of the Larger Fellowship. Mandy is a Spiritual Director certified by Still Harbor Chaplains for Justice. She believes that immersive retreats and camps are one of the most powerful ways to build spiritual community and foster strong faith identity and development.
Mandy Neff
Join us for a restorative week of creative practices in art-making and guided movement. Participants will relax their bodies and souls as we explore questions of what we wear for armor, and how and when it might be safe to take it off. In art, we will create masks that help us express aspects of protection and vulnerability. In movement we will explore how to release the tensions we hold in our bodies. Our workshop is rooted in the materials, visual and physical experiences of the local natural environment and influenced by the warm small-group community of the participants.
Leader:
Mandy Neff has served as a UU religious educator for 4 congregations over a 25-year career. She is the author of several curricula for youth. She has served as the President of New England LREDA and currently sits on the board of the Church of the Larger Fellowship. Mandy is a Spiritual Director certified by Still Harbor Chaplains for Justice. She believes that immersive retreats and camps are one of the most powerful ways to build spiritual community and foster strong faith identity and development.
Sacred Seeing $10.00 (Capacity of 14 individuals)
Kate Sullivan and Lynn Medley
Join us as we explore photography as a spiritual practice—a way to slow down, notice what we often rush past, and see deeply with the “eyes of the heart.” Together we’ll open ourselves to wonder and awe, to the subtle presence of the holy in the ordinary, and to the quiet worship that happens each time we pause, breathe, and truly look.
This year, we’ll wander through the dance of light and shadow, explore what is hidden and what is revealed in our images, and lean with curiosity into ambiguity, mystery, and surprise. We’ll discover our “holy places,” recognize the sacred in everyday moments, and use our photographs as windows into the stories and meanings within and beyond what the eye can easily see.
No special equipment or experience is needed to fully participate. Bring your point-and-shoot, your old Polaroid, your DSLR, or simply your phone (what most people use!). This is a deep, playful, and multigenerational experience for anyone in high school and up.
Now in its 11th year, Sacred Seeing continues to welcome both new and returning participants into a community of exploration, creativity, and spiritual connection. We can’t wait to share this transformative practice with you.
Leaders:
Kate Sullivan, long-time Ferry Beacher, is a developmental psychologist who has been working as an RE Director/consultant in UU churches for 20 years. She is also a photographer and has been working on bringing together her love of photography, building community, and spiritual practice. Kate is the co-creator of this workshop, Sacred Seeing, with Lynn Medley, and is super excited to be offering it again this year during RE Week!
Lynn is a speech-language pathologist and former Director of Religious Education in a small UU fellowship in Pennsylvania. A longtime participant in Ferry Beach’s RE Week, attending for more than 19 years, Lynn brings a gentle, thoughtful presence to this workshop. She is the co-creator of Sacred Seeing with Kate Sullivan.
Kate Sullivan and Lynn Medley
Join us as we explore photography as a spiritual practice—a way to slow down, notice what we often rush past, and see deeply with the “eyes of the heart.” Together we’ll open ourselves to wonder and awe, to the subtle presence of the holy in the ordinary, and to the quiet worship that happens each time we pause, breathe, and truly look.
This year, we’ll wander through the dance of light and shadow, explore what is hidden and what is revealed in our images, and lean with curiosity into ambiguity, mystery, and surprise. We’ll discover our “holy places,” recognize the sacred in everyday moments, and use our photographs as windows into the stories and meanings within and beyond what the eye can easily see.
No special equipment or experience is needed to fully participate. Bring your point-and-shoot, your old Polaroid, your DSLR, or simply your phone (what most people use!). This is a deep, playful, and multigenerational experience for anyone in high school and up.
Now in its 11th year, Sacred Seeing continues to welcome both new and returning participants into a community of exploration, creativity, and spiritual connection. We can’t wait to share this transformative practice with you.
Leaders:
Kate Sullivan, long-time Ferry Beacher, is a developmental psychologist who has been working as an RE Director/consultant in UU churches for 20 years. She is also a photographer and has been working on bringing together her love of photography, building community, and spiritual practice. Kate is the co-creator of this workshop, Sacred Seeing, with Lynn Medley, and is super excited to be offering it again this year during RE Week!
Lynn is a speech-language pathologist and former Director of Religious Education in a small UU fellowship in Pennsylvania. A longtime participant in Ferry Beach’s RE Week, attending for more than 19 years, Lynn brings a gentle, thoughtful presence to this workshop. She is the co-creator of Sacred Seeing with Kate Sullivan.
Coming of Age for Adults $25.00 (Capacity of 6 individuals) *Paid to workshop leader on first day.*
Rev. Dan Harper
This week-long workshop offers adults an opportunity to reflect on their religious or spiritual identity. Through art, poetry, and conversation, using exercises adapted from a successful teen Coming of Age program, participants will explore their religious and spiritual selves, and ultimately create a brief statement of religious identity. Religious professionals and lay leaders who want to bring this program back to their congregations (either for adults or teens) will have access to the full curriculum
Leader:
Rev. Dan Harper started as a UU religious educator in 1994. Having worked as DRE, MRE, interim religious educator, he is currently parish minister in Cohasset, Mass. Since 2015, he has co-directed a weeklong UU ecology camp. He holds the Mass. Audubon Field Naturalist certificate, and is a California Certified Naturalist.
Rev. Dan Harper
This week-long workshop offers adults an opportunity to reflect on their religious or spiritual identity. Through art, poetry, and conversation, using exercises adapted from a successful teen Coming of Age program, participants will explore their religious and spiritual selves, and ultimately create a brief statement of religious identity. Religious professionals and lay leaders who want to bring this program back to their congregations (either for adults or teens) will have access to the full curriculum
Leader:
Rev. Dan Harper started as a UU religious educator in 1994. Having worked as DRE, MRE, interim religious educator, he is currently parish minister in Cohasset, Mass. Since 2015, he has co-directed a weeklong UU ecology camp. He holds the Mass. Audubon Field Naturalist certificate, and is a California Certified Naturalist.
Ecology & Spirituality Free to Attend (Capacity of 12 individuals)
Jessica Harwood
Spend the week exploring the habitats surrounding Ferry Beach, connecting with the natural world, and renewing your spirit. We will engage in contemplative and environmental practices and activities to engage our sense of wonder. You will gain skills for your own understanding and relationship to the natural world, while also building a tool box of activities to use in an RE program. This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about ecology and spirituality in a hands-on, immersive experience.
Leader:
Jessica Harwood has been the Director of Faith Development & Community Engagement at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence since 2017. Prior to that, she was an elementary classroom teacher and environmental educator. She is inspired by the natural world, creativity, community, and kids.
Jessica Harwood
Spend the week exploring the habitats surrounding Ferry Beach, connecting with the natural world, and renewing your spirit. We will engage in contemplative and environmental practices and activities to engage our sense of wonder. You will gain skills for your own understanding and relationship to the natural world, while also building a tool box of activities to use in an RE program. This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about ecology and spirituality in a hands-on, immersive experience.
Leader:
Jessica Harwood has been the Director of Faith Development & Community Engagement at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence since 2017. Prior to that, she was an elementary classroom teacher and environmental educator. She is inspired by the natural world, creativity, community, and kids.
Young Adults Group Free to Attend / No Capacity
Ferry Beach RE Week is blessed with a thriving Young Adult community and whether you're a newcomer or a longtime attendee, you will find a warm and nurturing place to connect with your like-hearted peers! Young Adults gather every morning in their own space to build community, engage in guided and informal chats, play games, and collectively shape their time together how they want it to be. The group often decides on organizing afternoon and evening activities together, including off-campus nature walks, meals, and fun at the nearby carnival. Young Adults are also a vital part of the ministry and cherished activities at RE Week, acting as judges for the annual Banathalon on Thursday afternoon and being the first to greet the newly Bridged youth into the Young Adult community on Thursday evening. And be sure to come for the yearly Adults vs. Young Adults Bum Volleyball tournament on an evening to be determined!
Leader:
Clare Fortune-Ladd Bio coming soon..
Ferry Beach RE Week is blessed with a thriving Young Adult community and whether you're a newcomer or a longtime attendee, you will find a warm and nurturing place to connect with your like-hearted peers! Young Adults gather every morning in their own space to build community, engage in guided and informal chats, play games, and collectively shape their time together how they want it to be. The group often decides on organizing afternoon and evening activities together, including off-campus nature walks, meals, and fun at the nearby carnival. Young Adults are also a vital part of the ministry and cherished activities at RE Week, acting as judges for the annual Banathalon on Thursday afternoon and being the first to greet the newly Bridged youth into the Young Adult community on Thursday evening. And be sure to come for the yearly Adults vs. Young Adults Bum Volleyball tournament on an evening to be determined!
Leader:
Clare Fortune-Ladd Bio coming soon..
Children's Program Free to Attend
Our children’s program offers a safe space for children to build friendships and explore activities in the areas of art, yoga, team building through group games, ecology, and music. There is a mix of activities as a small group and activities with the adult workshops which fosters multigenerational. Children will be able to develop their interest in the outdoors, connect with nature, and have fun!
Participants are grouped into age bands and travel from activity to activity with their group leader. They start the morning with one session, break for snack and singing on DeWolfe porch, then finish the morning with a second session.
Group leaders:
-Rebecca Reid
-Ellenor Barish
-Asa Spring
-Mara Vorhees
-Alexis Capen
Our children’s program offers a safe space for children to build friendships and explore activities in the areas of art, yoga, team building through group games, ecology, and music. There is a mix of activities as a small group and activities with the adult workshops which fosters multigenerational. Children will be able to develop their interest in the outdoors, connect with nature, and have fun!
Participants are grouped into age bands and travel from activity to activity with their group leader. They start the morning with one session, break for snack and singing on DeWolfe porch, then finish the morning with a second session.
Group leaders:
-Rebecca Reid
-Ellenor Barish
-Asa Spring
-Mara Vorhees
-Alexis Capen
Juniors Youth Group Free to Attend
Lauren Strauss & Kelly Sarazen
The Junior Youth Group is a place where we hang out, get to know each other, and have a lot of fun! Kelly and Lauren are looking forward to spending a week exploring the Beach, creating art, building relationships, and examining the world through the lens of human beings who inhabit a world that needs our stewardship, our cooperation, and our collaboration with our Junior Youth members.
Highlights will include the Banathlon, the Jetty Walk, and Bum Volleyball with Senior Youth, time in the art cabin, music and movement, and lots of traditional games and activities. We’ll be building personal meditation spaces and spending time developing and enhancing lasting friendships.
Leaders:
Lauren Strauss is a mom, long-time RE Week attendee, and works as a Religious Educator at the Framingham, MA UU congregation. Her driver’s license says she is in her 50s but her soul is 12. She’s good at arts & crafts of all kinds, will probably face-plant on the Jetty Walk, and plays ukulele and sings (sometimes making up the words and tunes about the stuff going on around her).
Kelly Sarazen is a mom to three wonderful humans, two of which will be at Ferry Beach with her this year. Kelly is a Special Education Teacher and has been attending Ferry Beach for about 7 years. Kelly loves to read and watch bad TV in between taxi runs for her kids. She is excited to work with Junior Youth this year and hopes that she can stay awake long enough in the evenings to get through our evening activities.
Lauren Strauss & Kelly Sarazen
The Junior Youth Group is a place where we hang out, get to know each other, and have a lot of fun! Kelly and Lauren are looking forward to spending a week exploring the Beach, creating art, building relationships, and examining the world through the lens of human beings who inhabit a world that needs our stewardship, our cooperation, and our collaboration with our Junior Youth members.
Highlights will include the Banathlon, the Jetty Walk, and Bum Volleyball with Senior Youth, time in the art cabin, music and movement, and lots of traditional games and activities. We’ll be building personal meditation spaces and spending time developing and enhancing lasting friendships.
Leaders:
Lauren Strauss is a mom, long-time RE Week attendee, and works as a Religious Educator at the Framingham, MA UU congregation. Her driver’s license says she is in her 50s but her soul is 12. She’s good at arts & crafts of all kinds, will probably face-plant on the Jetty Walk, and plays ukulele and sings (sometimes making up the words and tunes about the stuff going on around her).
Kelly Sarazen is a mom to three wonderful humans, two of which will be at Ferry Beach with her this year. Kelly is a Special Education Teacher and has been attending Ferry Beach for about 7 years. Kelly loves to read and watch bad TV in between taxi runs for her kids. She is excited to work with Junior Youth this year and hopes that she can stay awake long enough in the evenings to get through our evening activities.
Senior Youth Group Free to Attend
Senior youth group offers a safe space for friendship, growth, and self exploration. We look forward to community building games like the Grocery Game, Wah, Silent Football, and Mafia. Deep discussions are facilitated with debate spectrum and fish bowl. Perennial favorites are decorating the campus with painter's tape, secret buddy gifting, ghost stories, music with Laurie and the Littles, and the jetty walk with a stop at the general store in Camp Ellis. The jetty walk is a chance to bond with Junior Youth, as is Bum Volleyball. Leadership opportunities arise in sand castle judging, leading improv night, planning and running Spirit Circle, planning the Banathalon, and planning and directing a talent show act. And doesn't everyone wonder what quotes Dawn will offer next? We celebrate the week by ending with a sparkle party and building a yarn web during our secret buddy reveal. And there's always room for new and different activities as the interests of the group shift over time.
Senior youth group offers a safe space for friendship, growth, and self exploration. We look forward to community building games like the Grocery Game, Wah, Silent Football, and Mafia. Deep discussions are facilitated with debate spectrum and fish bowl. Perennial favorites are decorating the campus with painter's tape, secret buddy gifting, ghost stories, music with Laurie and the Littles, and the jetty walk with a stop at the general store in Camp Ellis. The jetty walk is a chance to bond with Junior Youth, as is Bum Volleyball. Leadership opportunities arise in sand castle judging, leading improv night, planning and running Spirit Circle, planning the Banathalon, and planning and directing a talent show act. And doesn't everyone wonder what quotes Dawn will offer next? We celebrate the week by ending with a sparkle party and building a yarn web during our secret buddy reveal. And there's always room for new and different activities as the interests of the group shift over time.
Bridging Workshop Free to Attend
Yvonne Marcoux
The Bridging Workshop is a dynamic space for incoming high school seniors that helps them reflect on their spiritual identity and practices in a supportive Unitarian Universalist context. Unfolding in three phases—history and theology, reflecting on shared spiritual values and practices, and articulating those values in a personally meaningful way—the workshop provides the resources for deep exploration of faith and community. This space is set up to offer a container for youth to ask a lot of questions. The workshop culminates with the annual ritual of bridging: the youth give a statement of faith and the community acknowledges them as an incoming member of the young adult community.
Yvonne is a raised UU young adult and longtime member of the RE week community. She is a cyclist, an ultimate Frisbee player, and a cofounder of the UU Young Adult Revival Network. Yvonne currently lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Yvonne Marcoux
The Bridging Workshop is a dynamic space for incoming high school seniors that helps them reflect on their spiritual identity and practices in a supportive Unitarian Universalist context. Unfolding in three phases—history and theology, reflecting on shared spiritual values and practices, and articulating those values in a personally meaningful way—the workshop provides the resources for deep exploration of faith and community. This space is set up to offer a container for youth to ask a lot of questions. The workshop culminates with the annual ritual of bridging: the youth give a statement of faith and the community acknowledges them as an incoming member of the young adult community.
Yvonne is a raised UU young adult and longtime member of the RE week community. She is a cyclist, an ultimate Frisbee player, and a cofounder of the UU Young Adult Revival Network. Yvonne currently lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Conference Leadership
Coordinators:
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Rev. Jennifer Innis
Rev. Jennifer Innis (she/her) joins us from Peoria, IL where she enjoys life with her spouse the Reverend Patrick Price and their two children. She is happy to be the minister with the Universalist Unitarian Church of Peoria. She also is the Director for Spirit Play, a story-based program for young children in Unitarian Universalism. Jennifer is a 3rd generation UU who grew up in Central Massachusetts. Ferry Beach has been part of her family life for a long time. She is glad to serve as the newest member of the RE Week Coordinator team. |
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Nick Woodward
Nick Woodward (He/Him) comes to us in his thirtyfirst summer of RE Week and his second year as part of the Coordinator Team. Nick was raised UU and started coming to Ferry Beach in early childhood with his family. He considers the RE Week community to be part of his family, and he is looking forward to growing in his leadership role surrounded by people he loves and trusts. He enjoys cooking, gardening, building robots, and ice cream. |
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Karina Paxton Filoteo
Karina Paxton Filoteo (she/her) has attended RE week since she was eight years old. RE week has existed as a place for relaxation, connection, and growth for her. She was introduced to UU as a young child at the UU Fellowship of Plattsburgh and is currently a congregant at Second Unitarian Church (2U) in Chicago. At 2U, she completed Coming of Age and went to Boston with her youth group to learn about UU’s roots. This will be her second year as a part of the RE Week Coordinator team and she is excited to continue supporting this loving community. |
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Emmy Galbraith
Emmy Galbraith (she/her) began attending Ferry Beach’s RE Week in 2018 while serving as the Religious Education Assistant for Unitarian Universalist Society East of Manchester, CT. She began bringing her three children the following year and Ferry Beach instantaneously became an anchor of great healing and joy for the family. Emmy stepped into the role of Director of Children & Youth Ministry at UUSE in 2023 and the family has enjoyed a post-Covid return to RE week. Emmy is a lifelong pagan, serving the pagan community in Connecticut as a coven leader, Interfaith Director and head of teen programming for CWPN the CT Pagan Network. Her hobbies include gardening, hiking, yoga, and cuddling her tuxedo cat Pepper. She is excited to join the Coordinator Team for RE Week 2026! |
Musician of the Week:
Musicians of the Week: Glenn Rivard and Maeve McClusky
Glenn Rivard and Maeve McCluskey will be our Musicians of the Week. Maeve will be our official choir director. She is very excited to work with choir members old and new! We thank Laurie Loosigian for being such a generous Musician of the Week for so many years. There will be a chance to celebrate Laurie in person during RE Week.
Glenn Rivard and Maeve McCluskey will be our Musicians of the Week. Maeve will be our official choir director. She is very excited to work with choir members old and new! We thank Laurie Loosigian for being such a generous Musician of the Week for so many years. There will be a chance to celebrate Laurie in person during RE Week.
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Maeve McCluskey
Maeve McCluskey (she/they) is a Boston-area actor, vocalist, and comedian, as well as a current continuing education student of animation at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design (MassArt). This may only be Maeve's fourth summer at the Beach (and only their third full RE Week), but she has found a home with the RE Week community and is thrilled to be joining leadership as Choir Director. Maeve is excited and eager to step up into their new role this year and share their love and knowledge of music with the congregation. She hopes you will enjoy the music selections this year, and invites you to come and join the choir for Chapel! |
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Glenn Rivard
Glenn Rivard has been playing guitar since Jimmy Carter was in the Oval Office - that's 45+ years to save you from having to do the math. More recently he can be heard occasionally filling in as the musician for Sunday services at his UU home church in Sharon, MA and playing in a few monthly jams in his area. He has been learning to play the mountain dulcimer as well in the past few years. |
Musician of the Week:
Rev. David Carl Olson
Bio coming soon....
Bio coming soon....
Pricing
Conference Package (Pricing per Person) |
Conference Package for Lodgers: (Includes conference fee/access to all programming, plus all daily meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner for the entirety of RE Week.) Adult: $564 Youth: $450 Conference Package for Commuters: (Includes conference fee/access to all programming, plus daily lunch & dinner for the entirety of RE Week). Adult: $462 Youth: $354 Meals are included, there is no way to separate meals from the package price. Note: Lodging is not included in the conference package price, it's added on, the price varies depending on your desired lodging accommodation, see below. |
Lodging |
View our Lodging Page HERE for more information/photos of lodging options. Cottages/Cabins Morris Cottage: $550 per night Kelley Cottage: $515 per night Claflin Cottage: $515 per night Metz Cabins: $250 per night Cross Rooms: $205 per night Dorms: Quillen Family: $170 per night Ocean Queen: $165 per night Ocean Twin: $155 per night Queen Dorms: $145 per night Standard Dorms: $130 per night Camping: $45-55 depending on site *NEW* LINENS are now INCLUDED in your stay, for ALL lodging spaces in 2026! |
Membership |
Membership must be paid to attend any Ferry Beach program and is due annually. Individual Membership: $40 Family Membership: $65 See our Membership Page to learn more and to purchase or renew a membership. You can also renew your membership on your reservation. |
Register |
To register online click here, by phone, call the office at 207-282-4489 You can also email [email protected]. |
Our mission at Ferry Beach is to awaken hearts to explore, grow and renew the spirit of universal love.
We work by creating programing and events in the areas of Arts & Culture, Education, Spirituality, Sustainability, Personal Growth and Justice & Action.
We work by creating programing and events in the areas of Arts & Culture, Education, Spirituality, Sustainability, Personal Growth and Justice & Action.
Our mission at Ferry Beach is to awaken hearts to explore, grow and renew the spirit of universal love.
We work by creating programing and events in the areas of Arts & Culture, Education, Spirituality, Sustainability, Personal Growth and Justice & Action.
We work by creating programing and events in the areas of Arts & Culture, Education, Spirituality, Sustainability, Personal Growth and Justice & Action.
