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  • The Sermon of the Month series is an offering from your UUA Congregational Life Staff to help support small congregations with quality worship resources.
    Sermon | February 12, 2024 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship
  • 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.
    By Darcey Elizabeth Hegvik Laine | November 2, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Small Congregations, Worship
  • The Sermon of the Month series is a monthly subscription service that provides recorded sermons congregations can download and use for worship. Along with a transcript of the sermon, each month’s offering will include suggested readings and hymns.
    By Congregational Life | August 21, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship
  • 11/18/2022 - Keep worship from being a challenge for the lay-led congregation. You can make creating worship services less taxing and more satisfying.
    November 18, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Is your congregation overwhelmed? Confused about how to move forward towards some in-person ministry? Facing too many options? This post is for you.
    May 26, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Building Community, Safe Congregations, Worship
  • With the advent of built in Zoom Live Transcription, any congregation with a Zoom account should be able to turn on captions for any event or meeting. While the transcription isn't perfect, and a live captioning would likely be more accurate, it does open up your video streams to more people.
    By Beth Casebolt | May 24, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Congregational Administration, Disability & Accessibility, Worship
  • New ways UU congregations are considering moving towards multi-platform congregational life especially focused on Sunday morning and all ages inclusion.
    May 21, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Building Community, Worship
  • Think about the different needs of both the in-person and online participant for Worship, Concerts, Theater, Poetry Readings, etc.
    March 18, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Hospitality, Worship
  • Come hear three real life examples of smaller congregations from around the country sharing worship with neighbors and collaborators. This is a recording of a webinar.
    Video | February 23, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Small Congregations, Worship
  • What's the best way to organize your congregation for using Zoom services? This guide will help you determine your needs.
    By Erica Baron | November 22, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Worship
  • Wondering how to handle your congregation's celebration of upcoming holidays this fall and winter?
    Video | October 14, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Holidays & Ceremonies, Worship
  • Our faith is changing and we need innovation in worship, in leadership, and in new communities. How do we support the innovators and risk-takers among us? What can we learn from them for our own congregations?
    Webinar | By Mary Byron, Mark Hicks, Paula Cole Jones, Karin Lin | September 14, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #WidenTheCircle, Diversity & Inclusion, Worship
  • Sometimes circumstances call for special material—and the current pandemic is one such circumstance. We're grateful to the people here who have written and shared worship resources for worship in the time of Covid-19. "Tiny the God," a story by Becky Brooks "In These Hard Times," a song by Linda...
    March 26, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Worship
  • Understanding copyright law is not a normal part of church leadership! Here are some tips to help you navigate what music you can use and how to secure permissions.
    March 20, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Christianity, Copyright Permissions, Worship
  • Rev. Darcey Laine’ serves two of our small congregations. Because of her idea, congregations across upstate New York and northern Pennsylvannia have started “buddying up.”
    Story | By Darcey Elizabeth Hegvik Laine | March 17, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Trauma and Disaster Response, Small Congregations, Worship
  • A script and video sample for explaining why church is moving online to her congregation's children by DRE Helen Rose
    Video | By HP Rivers, UU Church of Tallahassee, Tallahassee, FL | March 13, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Children's Faith Development, Worship
  • Zoom is an affordable paid service that has both streaming and meeting capabilities. It is used by the UUA, its affiliates and many member congregations.​ At minimum, you will need a laptop computer, a webcam, Wi-Fi, and a Zoom account....
    Leader Resource | March 11, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Trauma and Disaster Response, Disability & Accessibility, Worship
  • Online meetings and streaming worship don't work well for everyone. Here are some tips and tools to make your online programs more accessible. Suggestions that we can add to this page are encouraged! Closed Captioning for Video The He… Loss Association of America has recommendations for Closed...
    Leader Resource | March 11, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Disability & Accessibility, Worship
  • Today's technology gives our congregations many options to connect our members and friends!...
    Book | March 10, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Trauma and Disaster Response, Disability & Accessibility, Worship
  • The easiest way to stream a worship service is to use a phone or tablet, Wi-Fi, and Facebook Live, which is the simplest streaming system to use. (YouTube is also simple, but they now require that your YouTube channel have at least 1,000 subscribers to be allowed to stream from a mobile...
    March 10, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Trauma and Disaster Response, Disability & Accessibility, Worship