The Office of Professional Development keeps records of deceased Unitarian Universalist (UU) ministers and arranges for the preparation of ministerial obituaries for UU World magazine and for the Unitarian Universalist Ministers' Association (UUMA) blog "Remembering the Living Tradition."

Ivy wreaths are sent to services to memorialize the life and work of ministers.The office alsoprepares memorial material for The Service of the Living Tradition at GeneralAssembly andhosts the surviving spouses and family luncheon.