Announcing our 2026 theme speaker and deadlines for workshop and seminar proposals.

This week Cassandra Montenegro shares a poem that sustains her by Richard Blanco. What poems help sustain you?

From Rev. Alia Shinbrough: I write to you with some bittersweet news: I will be leaving my position with the Central East Region on August 1, 2025.

It’s that time of year again! When many congregations are electing new leaders and appointing new committee chairs in preparation for the new church year. While this is a time when many churches are making updates, we know that not all congregations are on the same schedule. You can make these...

Just a quick note to remind you that I’ll be heading out the CER door in the next couple of weeks, leaving you in the capable hands of your primary contact and our staff team. They in turn are well supported by the rest of the UUA’s Congregational Life staff. Please do continue to reach out to...

After almost fifteen years on the Central East Regional (CER) staff, I will be stepping away from the team and my direct work with congregational leaders after June 30, 2025.

It's that time of year where many of our congregations are holding annual meetings, electing new leaders and new leaders are stepping into their new, or in some cases, returning roles. Here are some resources to help with that.

It's hard to keep up with everything. It's stressful to wonder if lawfully expressing your outrage will result in you being harassed, targeted or worse. But how do we keep this up? We stagger our breathing.

We are pleased to announce that registration for Summer Institute 2025 is now open! Please join us July 6-12 in Oberlin, OH.

If you are looking for something to help you figure out what to do in this time, consider joining The Gathering, second Monday of the month at 7 pm ET.

There have been three Truly Trying Times since I’ve been working with congregations through the UUA, ... and I’m familiar with what happens when our congregations have been set back on their heels by world events.

The Central East Region staff have been getting a lot of requests for safety resources and this video is to share what we recommend in this time for you.

As we head into spring and many start thinking about summer planning your CER staff want to offer an updated list of worship resources to make worship planning easier.

It was just over five years ago when the pandemic came to my community. I was two years into serving as a religious educator in a UU congregation, and I had no road map for what to do next.

Your UUA Central East Region team is here to move with you on the twists and turns of our shared journey. Join us for a brief pastoral message about what we’re encountering in the field, and how we’d encourage re-centering Love in these troubled times.

One thing we're hearing from congregations recently is that they would opportunities to gather together, preferably in person, but online if necessary, to be in community.

Is your congregation small? No more than 125 members? This series of webinars is for you!

Camp allows us to provide the most important part of being UU to our youth — a place where they can come as a whole person and be loved and cared for.

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.