Wren Bellavance-Grace

Congregational Consultant

New England Region in Congregational Life

Email: wbellavancegrace@uua.org

Telephone: (617) 948-4258

Wren loves working with lay leaders and religious professionals serving congregations of all sizes across New England. She serves as the New England representative on the national Safer Congregations Team, which curates best practices for safer church communities and responds to misconduct and ethical breaches.

Before joining the New England Region, wren was a religious educator. Through a fellowship granted by the Fahs Collaborative at the Meadville Lombard Theological School, she authored a paper, Full Week Faith, which proposed a new approach to our ministries of faith formation in response to the social, demographic, technological, and spiritual realities of 21st century America.

From Wren Bellavance-Grace

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LeaderLab

Dual Platform Future - Considering Trauma and Faith Formation

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From LeaderLab
This video is a portion of the Conversations with Leaders: Dual Platform Future for All Ages webinar that was offered in April. In this video, Wren...
Stewardship: Leaps of Faith and Risky Business

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From LeaderLab
A hundred "what if's" can stop an idea before it starts
This Is Our Church — Being/Becoming a Lay Led Congregation (Webinar)

Wren Bellavance-Grace, New England Region of the UUA

From LeaderLab
Some congregations have reduced ministerial hours in recent years, some can no longer afford even a part-time minister, while others have never had ministerial leadership. Whichever category your...

New England Region

When We Pause

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From New England Region
Leadership in our dominant culture tends to evoke images of politicians inspiring crowds with fiery speeches, or breathless heroes leading the charge....
Ring Out The Old

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From New England Region
It’s the waning days of 2022 as I write this; it will hit your inbox in early 2023. The turning of the Gregorian year begins with January, named for the...
Sticks & Stones

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From New England Region
“I will not sink to your barbaric behavior.” I was ten; my sister was six. I knew more multisyllabic words than she did and she leapt at me with her...
5 Tips For Heavy Lifting!

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From New England Region
“How are you?” I asked my DRE colleague on our recent phone call. Her response was not exactly typical, but becoming more familiar. She’d had a bout...
Right, Left, and Center!

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From New England Region
Recently, I gathered around our dining room table with my daughter and her 7-year-old to play a game of Right, Left, and Center. It’s a portable game...
Of Starfish and Transformation

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From New England Region
Maybe you’ve heard the inspirational story about the starfish. It’s often told as a celebration of a young child’s hope triumphing over a...
Who Are We?

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From New England Region
“Hello, who are you?” “I don’t know; I’ve never met me before!” This dialogue is from a comedy skit a friend and I wrote for an elementary...

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Wren Bellavance-Grace, Support of Small Congregations & Congregational Collaborations, New England Region

Read the Fahs Fellowship project here: Full Week Faith