Hear the story of how UU 2030 Young Adult Ministry grew from 4 to 40 active participants at Neighborhood UU Church in Pasadena, CA.

Your directory or online membership database is a powerful connection tool for your members and friends. But it also has the potential to be misused or abused.

Safety policies help to prevent interpersonal harm as well as safeguards for your assets such as money and building.

While the requirements for membership are in your bylaws, you also need policies ithat define participation, financial support, etc.

Gift card — also known as "scrip" — fundraising is another opportunity for people to stay within their budgets while still helping the congregation's bottom line.

A tiny church cannot have a dozen or so teams or committees that a bigger congregation has. Really, we can only do one thing at a time.

If your numbers really are getting smaller, you will probably have to let things go. It takes wisdom and careful discernment to let go of the right things at the right time.

If your congregation experiences a crisis, You will often finds yourself dealing with local media along withe the crisis at hand. The tips below will help guide you in how and what to communicate.

We discuss and practice articulating our theologies of justice-making with faith-centric language that can be used in outreach, public statements, petitions, letters, and more.

What if the space we need to live our mission no longer matches the building we own? Could our building find a new calling? (Webinar)

Involuntary terminations are never easy. Ensure the best possible outcomes for the congregation while offering kindness and respect to the employee. This is a chance for the congregation leadership to practice UU values.

How to prioritize preparation work, what areas to pay attention to, and some basic knowledge on how to respond to everything from fire to a disruptive person to active shooter to protests. 

Learn some frameworks for mapping relationships and potential partnerships in your community, as well as identifying how to identify allies, targets, and opponents as your work in coalition toward particular goals.

Guidance for developing congregational policies to address harassment, disruption, violence, threats of violence, and other forms of destructive behavior in the congregation.

We explore theological grounding for practices of community safety, share practical lessons from lived experience, and offer a framework of how to dynamically approach harm reduction with deep communal care.

This robust training helps you anticipate and plan responses to violent threats, vandalism, doxxing, and other forms of intimidation and harassment.

A team from the UU Church of Akron, Ohio created this series of teaching videos to help others learn how to avoid microaggressions in their interactions.

The UUA doesn’t dictate any particular governance model, but congregations have historically explored new models in "waves."

This training shares the history of covenant, theological and ethical concerns, how to think about accountability and responsibility, and some tools for transformation in your congregation.

Practice radical inclusion by assuming that at least one young person you know will experience a mental health challenge this year. There are plenty of trainings so you can skill up your support.