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Need resources and ideas for growing your membership? This new training can help!Tending Congregational Life: Guiding the Membership Journey is our first post-lockdown “growth and vitality” resource, in collaboration with the UU Association of Membership Professionals (UUAMP). Instead of...By Central East Region of the UUA | March 25, 2024 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Membership in Congregations, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Learn to work together to reinforce life-affirming and creative frameworks and use practical tools for welcoming and inclusion, connection and belonging, all as foundational to a membership journey in your congregation grounded in mutuality and consent.Training | By Congregational Life, Unitarian Universalist Association of Membership Professionals | March 15, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Does your congregation want to grow but feels stuck? We offer resources to help you revitalize and grow your congregation to the next level.February 1, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Resources and guidance on how to adjust your budget and programming when your congregation has declined in membership and/or pledging.February 1, 2024 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Tips, tools, and spiritual grounding for each stage of congregational life, from emerging, to membership, to thriving, to renewal, or to decline and possibly dissolution.Book | December 6, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Emerging Ministries, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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If we thought of our congregations as a community of communities, rather than a family, we can shift our self understanding in way that is more inclusive and expansive.Video | By Paula Cole Jones | September 12, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt, the newly-elected president of the Unitarian Universalist Association offered words of inspiration, support, and shared values to congregations throughout the country as UUs celebrate Ingathering this month.September 6, 2023 | From Press ReleasesTagged as: Hospitality, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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A summary and commentary of the UU congregational results of the Faith Communitities Today (FACT) 2023 survey that was conducted this past February-April.Leader Resource | By Sarah Lammert, Congregational Life | May 31, 2023 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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We're now into our third year with COVID and while somethings are getting back to "normal" many other things are not. Services are being offered in person, but attendance is down. Hybrid offerings are still happening but we're still not seeing people show up. Why is this? And what can we do?August 22, 2022 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Diversity & Inclusion, Outreach & Marketing, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Any time someone enters online or in-person congregational space, there are several opportunities for multiple connection points from which a long-term relationship can continue and grow.By Sharon Dittmar | August 17, 2022 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Hospitality, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Our mandate as Unitarian Universalists is to build Beloved Community in our congregations, and learning to draw our circles of welcome wider and wider is a growth opportunity for our churches.Training | By Megan Foley, Sana Saeed, Evin Carvill Ziemer | June 7, 2022 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Diversity & Inclusion, Hospitality, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Learning to understand human communities (and in our case, congregations) as systems has been an ongoing learning process for the past several decades for family therapists, organizational development consultants and social scientists....By Renee Ruchotzke | March 5, 2021 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Change & Conflict, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Membership committees may feel the need for feedback if there seems to be a "revolving door" of members joining and then leaving. It may be helpful to track the reasons why some members decide to leave.By Renee Ruchotzke | February 11, 2021 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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This is a recording of a workshop on The "inviting" process form first visit to ultimately leadership positions from the CER Delmarva Cluster Annual Gathering in Fall of 2020. Panelists: Rev. Renee Ruchotzke and Rev. Linda Peeples To view all the workshops and worships from this event, visit our...Webinar | December 17, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Leadership Development, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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This is a recording of a workshop on What affects visitors and new members in the new Virtual world from the CER Delmarva Cluster Annual Gathering in Fall of 2020.Webinar | By Central East Region of the UUA | December 17, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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This is the first is a series of four webinars focused on small congregations. Learn how your congregation can be bold.Webinar | December 17, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach, Small CongregationsPage/Article
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The Delmarva Cluster has a grant program that began at the First Unitarian Church of Wilmington, DE called Grants For Growth.October 19, 2020 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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“We want to look more diverse but we don’t want to be more diverse.” While it may not be said, it’s a sentiment often lived out in our congregations. We’ll explore the subtle ways in which our congregational systems keep ourselves in place and what we can do differently.Webinar | By Keith Kron, Patrice K. Curtis | September 14, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: #WidenTheCircle, Diversity & Inclusion, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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How do you prepare people to lead within and beyond the walls of your congregation? Learn about Faith Forward, a path for engagement that nurtures UU roots,inspires participants to give of themselves, and prepares them to engage sustainably in the world from a spiritually grounded, faithful place.Webinar | By Beth Dana, Marie Luna | September 14, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Leadership Development, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Multisite involves multiple congregations or covenanted communities sharing staff, programming, and mission to have greater impact and reach.July 23, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article