Districts and Regions of the Unitarian Universalist Association

UUA Districts

There are nineteen Districts of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) in North America. The mission of the UUA Districts is to serve as the primary local resource for congregations and to help extend Unitarian Universalist influence in the larger community.

The District Executive serves as the UUA's local presence and is the first person to contact about UUA services and your relationship to the Association. Program Consultants, who are employed in most Districts, serve the District in particular program areas based on local priorities. The District staff perform direct service to UUA congregations, including consultations on a wide variety of congregational issues such as long-range planning and organizational development, ministerial transitions, leadership training, and conflict management.

• Ballou-Channing (BC)
  Covers southeast Massachusetts (excluding the greater Boston area), Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket Island, and Rhode Island.
   
• Central Midwest (CMW)
  Includes congregations in five states—all of Illinois, most of Wisconsin, the northwestern corner of Indiana, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the southwestern corner of lower Michigan, and the eastern 2/3 of Missouri.
   
• Clara Barton (CB)
  Geographically includes central and western Massachusetts and all but the far southwest corner of Connecticut.
   
• Florida (FL)
  Includes the state of Florida (excluding the panhandle), Valdosta (a single south-central Georgia congregation), and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
   
• Heartland (HLD)
  Covers all or part of four states: Kentucky, Michigan's Lower Peninsula, western Ohio, and Indiana.
   
• Joseph Priestley (JP)
  Includes the District of Columbia and five states: southern New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, central and eastern Pennsylvania, and northern Virginia.
   
• Massachusetts Bay (MB)
  Includes the eastern portion of Massachusetts.
   
• Metro New York (MNY)
  Includes congregations in four states: New York, from the tip of Long Island northward to Kingston and Poughkeepsie; New Jersey, from Tom's River north to the New York line; southwest Connecticut; and Pennsylvania.
   
• Mid-South (MS)
  Serves all the UU congregations in Alabama and Mississippi, three in the panhandle of Florida, three in middle Tennessee and the congregations in metropolitan Atlanta and north and central Georgia.
   
• Mountain Desert (MD)
  Spans eight states: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico with congregations in eastern Idaho, west Texas and western Nebraska.
   
• Northern New England (NNE)
  Serves congregations in the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
   
• Ohio Meadville (OM)
  Serves congregations in Ohio, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and western New York.
   
• Pacific Central (PC)
  Extends from northern Nevada to Hawaii; from the northern California border down to California's Central Valley.
   
• Pacific Northwest (PNW)
  Serves Alaska, western Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
   
• Pacific Southwest (PSW)
  Serves Arizona, southern California, and southern Nevada.
   
• Prairie Star (PS)
  Serves congregations in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, western Wisconsin, and western Missouri.
   
• Southeast (SE)
  Includes North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia.
   
• Southwest (SW)
  Includes most of Texas (excluding the El Paso area); all of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana; Memphis, TN; Springfield, MO; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and several emerging congregations in Mexico.
   
• St. Lawrence (STL)
  Made up of congregations in New York state and one in Pennsylvania.

UUA Regions

District staff is increasingly working across district lines in five regions. In a recent talk, the Reverend Terasa Cooley, Director of Congregational Life, talks about Regions:

Our constant mission is: how do we serve our congregations in the best ways? How do we advance the work of congregations? How do we best continue in partnership with local congregations? In order to have a range of people and a range of skills to best serve our congregations we are moving toward a shared staff team model with a Lead in each Region.

Regional Leads

• Central East Regional Group (Rev. Joan Van Becelaere, jvanbecelaere @ uua.org)
   
• Southern Region (Rev. Kenn Hurto, khurto @ uua.org)
   
• MidAmerica Region (Rev. Ian Evison, ievison @ uua.org)
   
• Pacific Western Region (Rev. Nancy Bowen, nbowen @ uua.org)
   
• New England Region (Rev. Sue Phillips, sphillips @ uua.org)

All of the Regional Leads currently head UUA districts within their respective regions. Congregations will continue to be served by the staff in their district and now, increasingly, by staff in their region as well.