The Welcoming Congregation Program
The Welcoming Congregation Program is a completely volunteer program for Unitarian Universalist congregations that want to take intentional steps to become more welcoming and inclusive of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
First launched in 1990, the program grew out of an understanding that widespread prejudices and ignorance about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people existed within Unitarian Universalism, which resulted in the exclusion of LGBT people from our congregations.
Today, 65% of U.S. Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations and 94% of Canadian UU congregations are recognized as Welcoming Congregations. The program is supported by LGBT Ministries.
The Program
Further Steps
- Do a Welcoming Congregation Refresher Course
- Living the Welcoming Congregation
- Deepening Your Welcome Even Further
Supplemental Resources
- Small Congregations
- History of the Program
- Why Focus Our Welcome on LGBT People?
- More Resources on Identity
- Welcoming Language for Bylaws, Worship, and Websites
- Congregational Stories
More
- Find Welcoming Congregations Near You
- UU History and Facts About LGBT Issues
- Outreach & Public Witness for LGBT Rights
Regardless of where your congregation is on its journey, you can find new ways to broaden and deepen your welcome!
For more information contact lgbt @ uua.org.
This work is made possible by the generosity of individual donors. Please consider making a donation today.
Last updated on Friday, December 23, 2011.
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