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  • While the requirements for membership are in your bylaws, you also need policies ithat define participation, financial support, etc.
    Leader Resource | November 13, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Membership in Congregations
  • 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.
    By Renee Ruchotzke | November 10, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Fundraising for Congregations
  • 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
  • What if the space we need to live our mission no longer matches the building we own? Could our building find a new calling?
    By Darcey Elizabeth Hegvik Laine | October 25, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Facilities Management
  • 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.
    By Jan Gartner | October 24, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Staffing & Supervision
  • Anticipate and plan for how to respond to violent threats, vandalism, doxxing, and other forms of intimidation and harassment.
    Training | By Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe | October 21, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Trauma and Disaster Response
  • 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.
    Congregational Story | By UU Church of Akron, Fairlawn, OH | October 18, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Welcome & Inclusion for LGBTQ
  • The UUA doesn’t dictate any particular governance model, but congregations have historically explored new models in "waves."
    By Renee Ruchotzke | October 16, 2023 | From The Congregational Handbook
    Tagged as: Governance for Congregations
  • When you’re a member of a vibrant congregation, you hope for a deep and radical welcome there. You want to be able to bring your whole self, and feel called to be your best self, accountable to the vision of beloved community the community shares. In these congregations, when actions, words, or...
    Training | September 21, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Covenant, Safe Congregations
  • 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.
    September 18, 2023 | From Youth Ministry
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development
  • Based on the theology of Creative Interchange, this training is for teams who have the honor of co-creating meaning while shaping the worship experience of the congregation.
    Training | By Erika Hewitt | September 13, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • If we thought of our congregations as a community of communities, rather than a family, we can shift our self understanding in way that is more inclusive and expansive.
    Video | By Paula Cole Jones | September 12, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach
  • Coming of Age Conversations from Threshold Project panels, writings, and more
    September 12, 2023 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Coming of Age, Coming-of-Age, Middle School-Aged Youth Faith Development, UU Theology, Professional Development for Religious Educators
  • When your congregation is developing or revisiting "guiding documents" for leaders that are endorsed by the congregation as a whole (e.g....
    Leader Resource | By Renee Ruchotzke | September 11, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Mission/Vision/Planning
  • For congregations that own a parsonage, consider the possibilities as well as implications for structuring a ministerial agreement.
    Leader Resource | By Sean Griffin, Jan Gartner | August 29, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Support for Ministers
  • In this seven-part series, participants are introduced to Spiritual Leadership and its five practices: Covenanting, Tending Our Tradition, Doing Our Inner Work, Centering in Gifts, and Faithful Risking. The series centers on questions faithful people are asking: "How can we more actively imagine,...
    August 21, 2023 | From New England Region
  • 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
  • Our spiritual communities are at their best when we support one another. In order to support young adults with mental health issues well, we need to fight the stigma, watch for signs, reach out proactively, and maintain healthy boundaries....
    August 11, 2023 | From Youth Ministry
    Tagged as: High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Mental Health
  • This “next level” training for boards goes into its roles as fiduciary agents, spiritual leaders, strategic thinkers, and change agents.
    Training | By Congregational Life | August 1, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards
  • A few weeks ago, I joined Joe, Meck, and our Region’s Spiritual Leadership for Culture Change Community of Practice (join anytime!) for a conversation on Tending Our Tradition through Reparations. We were looking at how this practice of Spiritual Leadership invites us to bring forward the gifts...
    By Hilary Allen | July 27, 2023 | From Tending to Tradition