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.

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Centering Gifts | New England Region

Of Starfish and Transformation

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From Centering Gifts
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...
Remembering Our Gifts

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From Centering Gifts
It’s been a hard fall...The election season was both astonishing and surreal. As I write this, many of us are preparing for a very different...

Covenanting | New England Region

Covenants, not Punishments

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From Covenanting
“Have you been to the bathroom yet?” It’s not the typical pre-workshop conversation my colleagues and I share as we set up projectors, easels, and...

Doing Our Inner Work | New England Region

When We Pause

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From Doing Our Inner Work
Leadership in our dominant culture tends to evoke images of politicians inspiring crowds with fiery speeches, or breathless heroes leading the charge....
Sticks & Stones

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From Doing Our Inner Work
“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...
Holy Slowly

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From Doing Our Inner Work
Opening words from Artist and Vibe Curator Eso Tolson: I don’t know who needs to hear this but rest is not a reward. You don’t have to earn rest. You...

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

Living Our Words To Live By

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From New England Region
My grandparents had a découpage plaque by their front door with President Kennedy’s famous words, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what...

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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