Support for Ministers of Color
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has an ongoing commitment to provide our Diversity of Ministry Team with the resources necessary to support ministers of color, Latino/a and Hispanic ministers, and the congregations that call them.
In his letter to Friends of the UUA in May 2007, President Sinkford wrote of the following goals for the Diversity of Ministry Team:
- [to] help our new ministers of color and Latino/a and Hispanic ministers to be welcomed, and to build and deepen the relationships they experience—to each other, to their congregations, and to all of us in the Unitarian Universalist (UU) community. So they feel welcome … so they feel included … so they feel loved.
- [to] create a learning community among congregations that have settled ministers of color and Latino/a and Hispanic ministers so they can share knowledge and learn from each other—and so that our organization does not repeat the mistakes of the past.
- [to]continue to recruit new ministers, including more ministers of color and Latino/a and Hispanic ministers, to fill our growing need for people who can communicate our faith to a broad spectrum of people—who can be “multi-vocal,” so that everyone who comes to our congregations should be able to connect with something in the service. To feel their faith, their family, and their world, has been spoken to.”
We seek $2.5 million to attract, encourage, and retain more ministers of color in Unitarian Universalism. $500,000 will fund this program for one year.
This initiative will be partially funded through special congregational collections on Association Sunday 2007. Please contact us if you're interested in making a gift to help fund this effort: email campaign @ uua.org, or call (888) 792-5885 and ask for a member of the campaign team.
For more information contact associationsunday @ uua.org.
Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.
