MidAmerica Region Newsletter

This August/September our entire MidAmerica Regional team will be organizing virtual connection opportunities. These “sharing circles” are for lay congregational leaders, religious professionals, youth, young adults, and more.

I recently attended the second part of an online course by the Adaway Group entitled, Whiteness at Work with the MidAmerica program staff. The workshop is designed for white people. The second session introduced us to the “Cycle of Socialization,” how American culture socializes

With 27 participants from all around the state, a new State Action Network has officially come into being in Kentucky! Tentatively named the Kentucky UU Justice Action Network (KUUJAN)

Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio (UUJO), our UU State Action Network in Ohio, is asking their members, friends, and Ohio voters and non-voters to check their registration, register to vote as needed, and then be sure to apply for an absentee ballot as soon as possible if they...

Extended Leadership Experience—Virtual MWLS 2020 begins in September. We will be focusing on what it takes and means to be a leader as we also recognize the two challenges of physical distancing and dismantling systemic white supremacy culture. We will meet four Saturdays, 10am-...

Thanks to all the individuals in the MidAmerica Region whose generous contributions made this past fiscal year’s Chalice Lighter calls and Faithify campaigns a huge success. Through your collective efforts, we were able to help raise almost $100,000 to fund the dreams of...

August Webinars for MidAmerica Region include Congregational Leaders Check-ins, Small Congregation Check-Ins, Board Basics for Virtual and Beyond (Session 3) and On-Demand content

Whether it’s responding to the impact of natural disasters like this year’s tornadoes in Nashville, or helping UU congregations and communities cope with the unequal ravages of COVID-19 through local partnerships, the Disaster Relief Fund can help

The UUA has created a new lay leader spiritual care training entitled Spiritual Care Training for Lay Leaders 310 Part 1: Discernment through the UUA online learning platform of LeaderLab. If you are personally interested in pastoral care

...this was not a moment for patient community organizing, but a moment for action. “This is the moment of the whirlwind,” he said... Throughout human history there are times when the pace of change speeds up, when people are mobilized and energized...

After three years of research, story gathering, and analysis of structural and systemic racism and white supremacy culture within Unitarian Universalism, the report from the Commission on Institutional Change (COIC) is now available: Widening the Circle of Concern makes vital...

What has inspired me are the countless religious educators who have faithfully helped to provide online, multigenerational, opportunities for UU faith formation

Congregational Leaders Check-ins — Led by Lisa Presley / Small Congregation Check-Ins — Led by Phil Lund / Board Basics for Virtual and Beyond — Led by David Pyle / Seeing with New Eyes — led by Mark Bernstein and UUAMP / Stewardship for Us: Friday Forum

We’re moving Leadership Experience training online. We will hold four sessions, three weeks apart: August 22, September 12, October 3, and October 24. Sessions will run from 9:00 am Central / 10:00 am Eastern and go for about three hours.

“I write to you today as a Black Unitarian Universalist, a Black woman, a Black mother, and a Black minister. How is it with your spirit today? Today, my spirit is struck by grief.”

We recognize that this is a transformational moment for our country and our faith, and the MidAmerica Regional Staff is available to support our congregational leaders and members in speaking this prophetic truth.

On May 14 UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray wrote, “We continue to recommend that congregations not gather in person. We also recommend that congregations begin planning for virtual operations for the next year (through May 2021). Take a moment to breathe. I know this is...

Equity in design necessitates that we purposefully demonstrate an awareness of the need to deinstitutionalize white supremacy. A superb resource that you can do yourself: Layla F. Saad’s, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor.

The MidAmerica Regional Staff would like to personally invite you to attend the 2020 Virtual General Assembly (GA), which will be held online later this month, Wednesday, June 24th, through Sunday, June 28th.

Congregational Leaders Check In * Small Congregations Check In * Congregational Meetings on Zoom * Board Basics 2020