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  • Welcome to 2023! Honestly, I just can’t believe it’s already a new year; I am still reeling from 2020! I’ve read so many articles on the collective exhaustion and burnout that we feel at this turn of the year, and I certainly have felt it in the past several months. It seems as if there is so...
    By Natalie Briscoe | January 5, 2023 | From Southern Region
    Tagged as: Building Community, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Covenants have been at the foundation of Unitarian Universalism in the United States since 1648. What many don’t realize is that the covenants not only were important between the members of the individual congregations, but also among the congregations.
    By Beth Casebolt | October 24, 2022 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Fundraising for Congregations, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Have you noticed that you forget things more now than you remember doing before? Or perhaps you have communicated events and decisions in your congregations or communities and folks insist they have never heard it before? I am sure you can think of other examples in your life, family, or the...
    By Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe | September 19, 2022 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Communication, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Last summer, East Shore UU Church in Kirtland, Ohio had just been through a very difficult year. Along with the continued challenges with the pandemic, they had to say goodbye to their developmental minister after 5 years. The search for a new minister ended in disappointmentLast summer, East Shore
    By Renee Ruchotzke | August 8, 2022 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Ministerial Transitions, Governance for Congregations, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • At the Sunday service at General Assembly yesterday, Rev. Gretchen Haley charged us to reach out in partnership with other congregations in underserved areas, where the struggle with reproductive justice, trans care and LGBTQ issues is significant. This is your chance to live that charge. In the...
    June 26, 2022 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Fundraising for Congregations, Outreach & Marketing, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • As the omicron surge–tsunami–hits the United States I am grateful for the protection of vaccination and yet I am braced against less deadly, but still deep impact. The impact of a form of trauma called “moral injury” or “moral distress”. I’m worried for all of us.
    By Evin Carvill Ziemer | January 3, 2022 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • We had about a minute in, when, June? when we in congregations thought we were on the path to pandemic freedom. I don’t know about you but I definitely was imagining A Return To Normal Church.
    By Megan Foley | September 13, 2021 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Change & Conflict, Leadership Development, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Many congregations have been hoping to do a form of “hybrid” or "dual-platform" worship as a way of getting back together in person once we near the end of the pandemic. We are called to be inclusive-and each congregation will
    By Evin Carvill Ziemer | March 1, 2021 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Faith Development, Support and Caring in Congregations, Worship
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  • As we enter year two of the pandemic, I and many others are dealing with loss and some degree of broken-heartedness. A trip through my local drugstore reminds me that Valentine’s Day is nigh, and I find myself pondering, are there Valentine’s for the broken hearts among us?
    By Patricia Infante | February 8, 2021 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Pastoral Care, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Guidance and resources for building a grief support ministry in your congregation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | December 18, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Grief, Pain, Pastoral Care, Suffering, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • We recognize our interdependence - and we feel it even more poignantly in the midst of the isolation of the global pandemic. We need one another. We need ways to reach out and strengthen relationships, fostering more neighborly interactions and support systems. We need a village.
    By Michelle Buhite | July 27, 2020 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Membership in Congregations, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • In Held community minister and mental health advocate Barbara F. Meyers illustrates how members of liberal religious congregations can be supportive to those living with mental health problems.
    Book | By Barbara F. Meyers | May 27, 2020 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Depression, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Are you struggling with how to share your virtual programming with your members? Here is a resource for you!
    By Community UU Congregation at White Plains, White Plains, NY | March 30, 2020 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • “Everyone wants to feel appreciated. For many, appreciation is just saying thank you. But appreciation only begins with saying thanks. True appreciation is not only recognizing someone’s excellent efforts and contribution. The term actually means “to recognize and enjoy” a person’s value...
    By Hope Johnson | November 11, 2019 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Social Justice, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • The Amplify catalog offers a list of the many ways the UUA serves congregations and UU communities across our Association. Why is it called the Amplify catalog? Congregational support of the Unitarian Universalist Association amplifies the power of each UU congregation, while also helping to...
    May 30, 2019
    Tagged as: Congregational Administration, Finance for Congregations, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Looking to become more involved in your faith community? With thoughtful questions and wisdom, this pamphlet can help guide the ways you share your gifts and grow in spirit. Pack of 25 pamphlets. To read this pamphlet click here.
    Pamphlet or Card | By Nic Cable | March 22, 2019
    Tagged as: Path to Leadership, Service, Unitarian Universalism, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Why I returned to my mostly white UU congregation.
    By Michael Hornsby | March 1, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Community, Faith, Integrity, Leadership, Race/Ethnicity, Anti-Racism, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • When a family faces a challenge, their congregation may be one of the first places they turn for support, consolation or affirmation....
    Webinar | By Patricia Infante | December 14, 2017 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Families & Faith Development, Professional Development for Religious Educators, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Your Disaster Relief Fund donations directly impact the recovery of our congregations, their members, and their community partners.
    September 29, 2017
    Tagged as: Congregation-Based Community Organizing, Crisis Planning in Congregations, Giving & Generosity, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Our Disaster Relief Fund is part of a covenant—a covenant between the UUA and congregations, between congregations who give generously and those in need, and with our community partners.
    September 8, 2017
    Tagged as: Congregation-Based Community Organizing, Crisis Planning in Congregations, Trauma and Disaster Response, Giving & Generosity, Support and Caring in Congregations
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