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  • Safety policies help to prevent interpersonal harm as well as safeguards for your assets such as money and building.
    Leader Resource | By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | November 15, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Professional Misconduct, Safety and Staffing in Congregations, Safe Congregations
  • In UU congregations, conflict avoidance, a sense of urgency, and either/or thinking can make it difficult to engage conflicts well. We will learn to engage conflicts of various kinds in ways that lead toward Beloved Community.
    Webinar | By Erica Baron, Byron "Tyler" Coles, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | November 11, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Past General Assemblies
  • Guidance and resources for building a grief support ministry in your congregation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | December 18, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Grief, Pain, Pastoral Care, Suffering, Support and Caring in Congregations
  • How can we adapt something we usually do in person—memorial services and celebrations of life—to happen online over videoconference? It’s a question that many of our congregations are facing as we contend with COVID-19 and restrictions on gathering. Some of the challenges are identical to...
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | April 3, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Death, Grief, Memorial Services, Pastoral Care, Rites of Passage
  • When restrictions on gathering are lifted, many congregations will have several memorial services they will need to schedule and hold. This page offers tips for planning services smoothly, so that the focus can be on pastoral care and grief support.
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | April 3, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Death, Grief, Memorial Services, Pastoral Care, Rites of Passage
  • When authorities limit in-person gatherings to 25 or 10 or even fewer people, it necessarily affects our capacity to hold funerals and memorial services....
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | April 3, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Death, Grief, Memorial Services, Pastoral Care, Rites of Passage
  • When you're building up a team of lay pastoral caregivers in your congregation, it's important to ask good questions. Their answers will help you determine whether a prospective caregiver has the appropriate boundaries and skills for the role....
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | March 18, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Pastoral Care, Shared Ministry Teams
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has arrived, and you can barely keep up with the emotional, spiritual, and health needs of your community. Either you didn’t have a strong network of lay pastoral care in place before, or the core of your network is over 60 and self-isolating… Suddenly, you find you have to...
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | March 17, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Pastoral Care, Shared Ministry Teams
  • A sea-change is happening in American religion, and spiritual needs have only grown more intense. Take home tools to attract new people, successfully integrate them into community, and nourish their faith for the long haul.
    Webinar | By Tandi Rogers, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | July 5, 2018 (reviewed March 2024) | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach
  • Find guiding questions, ideas and best practices for emerging-adult-friendly congregations (ages 18-24).
    By Eric Bliss, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh, Annie Gonzalez Milliken | May 16, 2018 | From LeaderLab
  • How do you create a meaningful congregational experience when you've got a small number of kids in your congregation, few of whom are the same age?
    Webinar | By Sarah Movius Schurr, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | February 25, 2017 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Small Congregations
  • The UUA Outreach team offers tips, tools and exercises to help extend the outreach of your congregation!
    Training | By Carey McDonald, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | April 12, 2016 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach
  • If we’re going to do effective outreach online, we need some insight into the experience of the large and slightly mysterious pool of people we call prospective visitors. Who are they? What do they want? And how do we design our websites for their positive UX?
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | September 29, 2015 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Hospitality
  • Let’s get new people immersed in Unitarian Universalism! But how do we know what will delight them? What they’ll find meaningful?
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | September 3, 2015 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Hospitality
  • We have many important entry-points for prospective Unitarian Universalists. Our literal front doors can be as important as our website.
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | August 27, 2015 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Hospitality
  • Tools for developing quality online content: shareable images, blogs, videos, and more
    Webinar | By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh, Christopher L. Walton, Jill Goddard, Jennifer Toth Clary | July 2, 2015 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Social Media, Websites
  • This workshop guides you in (re)building your website's content and structure with low-cost, high–performance tools from WordPress and the UUA.
    Webinar | By Christopher Wulff, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | June 22, 2015 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Websites
  • Our websites are where we tell the world who we are, what we do, and why it matters.
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | March 19, 2015 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Hospitality
  • What kinds of messages and content will build a relationship with key audiences, inviting them to join in?
    Webinar | By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | August 19, 2014 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Social Media