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.

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.

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

Community Unitarian Universalist Church in Plano, Texas, created banners from the messages of love and support sent from other UUs.

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.

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