The Central East Region is very pleased to introduce our congregations to Cassandra Montenegro, our newest CER Congregational Life staff member.

We are living in extraordinary times. How will Unitarian Universalists respond? To help us all respond, the CER staff is offering the CER Learning, Transformation and Community Networking Days: Leading with Love at the Center.

I’m writing with news – after ten years as field staff and nine as CER’s Regional Lead, I’ve decided to complete my tenure at the UUA over the course of 2025.

Find out what’s happening in the Central East Region! This month — CER Leading with Love Event, General Assembly 2025, Small Congregations Month & more.

Your Congregational Life staff has recently returned with new skills, connections, and conversations from a gathering known as CLEAR: Congregational Life Education And Renewal.

The New Year can a be time to take stock of our lives and make adjustments to old habits, or set new goals in the form of New Year’s Resolutions. It’s hard enough to do this as individuals – it’s even harder to do as congregations.

Find out what’s happening in the Central East Region! This month — General Assembly 2025, Winter Institute, UU Institute, Small Congregation Month & more.

Happy Holidays from the Central East Region! Your team at the UUA wish you a season of joy, peace, love and connection.

If you have seen this lovely meerkat pop up in some of our staff photos and wondered why it was there, the CER Staff has a mascot. But our mascot is more than just a symbol.

The UUA has released the full data from the 2024 UUA Certification Report, and there is a lot to learn—and to celebrate! And we have good news to report this year: across our denomination, participation in religious education programs has grown by 16%.