Membership Growth & Outreach

Human systems like religious communities don’t tend to like to change. In a way, we need to trick the system in order to allow in energy and creativity.

How might we see the impact of our hospitality with “fresh eyes?”

Practical advice about successfully founding and sustaining a group to provide fellowship and support for our active duty service folx and their families.

Is rudeness a quality of Unitarian Universalism? How else to explain the lack of hospitality exhibited by many congregations toward unbidden guests?

Who Are You Expecting? What ways do our congregations show they are expecting guests of all types?

Why don't we have more people getting involved? It turns out that this is typical for congregregations that have plateaued in size.

Congregational growth is about many things—not just numbers.

How do we use what we know about our neighborhood to be intentional about programming?

Making the decision to add an additional worship service, or even considering such a thing, is a major undertaking in congregational life.

Adding services can provide a wonderful, invigorating climate for growth of all sorts, both individual and institutional. But large-scale change without adequate planning not only may doom...