Effective Congregational Governance: Organizing for Mission and Ministry
Governance in Congregations (PDF, 19 pages)
Your Congregation's Bylaws: A Guide to Effective Writing and Revising
Effective Congregational Committees (PDF, 36 pages)
Contact your District Office staff to discuss your committee
Join communication forums like Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Email Lists, to discuss committee ideas with others in congregations
See the InterConnections newsletter for lay leaders
Congregational Committees
- Buildings and Grounds Committee
- Caring / Pastoral Care Committee
- Beyond Casseroles: Caring Committees That Work
- Denominational Affairs Committee
- Every Member Canvass Committee
- Finance Committee
- Join the discussion on the email list UU-Money and search the archives for further answers.
- Financing Church Staff
- Human Resources or Personnel Committee
- Leadership / Volunteer Development Committee (please see Nominating below)
- Publicity / Communications Committee
- Congregational Newsletter Content
- Email Lists, to discuss with others in congregations
- Long-Range Planning Committee
- Your district office staff provide help and resources
- Vision, Mission and Covenant Development (PDF, 97 pages)
- Holy Conversations by Gilbert Rendle and Alice Mann
- Membership Committee
- Ministerial Relations Committee / Committee on Ministry
- Assessing Our Leadership (PDF, 35 pages: see page 29)
- Music Committee
- Ask your UU Musicians Network District Liaison about your congregation's music program
- UU Musicians Network Mentor Program for congregations with a small music program, or with no or a non-UU music director
- Congregational Membership in the UU Musicians Network (PDF), for Small Congregations
- Nominating / Leadership Development Committee
- The Nominating Committee: Making It Work for You
- Volunteer Coordinators Help Fill the Committees
- To Keep Committees Filled, Make Church Meaningful
- Your Congregation's Bylaws
- Religious Education / Lifespan Faith Development Committee
- Contact your district program consultant or, if you don't have one, your district executive
- Covenanting for Excellence in Religious Education
- Teacher Development
- Social Justice Committee
- Congregational Stories of Justice & Diversity
- Options for the Committee's programs
- Social Justice Resources
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
- Worship / Sunday Service Committee
- Young Adult and Campus Ministry Committee
- Youth Adult Committee (YAC)
- Getting Started as a Youth Leader: for youth, young adults and adults
Meetings that Work (PDF, 38 pages)
Facilitating Fruitful Retreats (PDF, 6 pages)
Lay Leadership Resources
- For Lay Leaders / Volunteers
- InterConnections
- All Are Chosen, Margaret Beard and Roger Comstock, editors
Congregational Polity
- Congregational Polity: A Historical Survey of Unitarian and Universalist Practice (PDF, 274 pages)
- Interdependence: Renewing Congregational Polity
For more information contact growthresources @ uua.org.
Last updated on Wednesday, October 28, 2009.
