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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New England Region

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...
Who Are We?

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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...
Of Rollercoasters and Tilt-A-Whirls

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From New England Region
September is County Fair season in much of New England. In our UU congregations, September is also Ingathering time; water communion time;...

Tending to Tradition | New England Region

Ring Out The Old

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From Binding to Tradition
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...
A Beautiful Complicated Story

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From Binding to Tradition
after I joined my congregation, I found a religious home—not just in the denominational sense, but in the radical, down-to-the-roots sense...

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On Veterans Day

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From WorshipWeb
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank You,' it will be enough" Meister Eckhart Today we have set aside time to publicly say...
In Praise of Technology & Social Media

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From WorshipWeb
In praise of computers and routers and servers and all the hardware and software that can help us build our connectedness; in praise of all the gremlins...
Veterans Day Invocation

Wren Bellavance-Grace

From WorshipWeb
Father God, Mother God, God of many names and of none, we invite your presence; be with us this morning. Be with us as we honor our veterans of wartime;...

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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