Communications for
Community Building
Service Area

Kok-Heong McNaughton
Los Alamos, NM
and
Bob Blauvelt
First Unitarian Society, Denver

Our Mission:

• Develop a community of UUs across the vast area that is the MDD
• Promote purposeful interaction among congregations, clusters and individual UUs across the district
• Foster resource sharing among congregations
• Supply information, education and advice to inquiring congregations and individuals
• Provide district communications systems and tools, including the district newsletter, electronic communications, and website
• Encourage attendance at annual conferences and delegate assemblies, cluster meetings, and the Presidents’ Forum
• Promote and administer the district and UUA awards program

Projects and Services:

• Operate, maintain and improve MDD website, mdduua.org
• Administer MDD’s e-mail lists on uua.org
• Publish Dispatch; make Dispatch useful to all UUs in the MDD
• Issue announcements to congregations and members
• Develop a network of congregational/cluster contacts
• Promote subscriptions to mdd-announce e-mail list
• Assist congregations and clusters with communications needs
• Assist district staff with communications needs, including maintenance and improvement of technology
• Administer and promote MDD Awards Program
• Encourage attendance at Presidents’ Council meetings

Current Projects

• Improving website:
• recruiting professional web design assistance
• Redesign to support Service Areas and Council
• MDD Annual Conference information
• Congregational contact representatives
• Keep District office informed of changes
• Correspondent, distribution for Dispatch
• Distribute district news in congregations
• Promote membership on mdd-announce
• mdd-announce subscriptions: increasing membership above current level of about 400
• District Office high-speed internet connection