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  • Camp allows us to provide the most important part of being UU to our youth — a place where they can come as a whole person and be loved and cared for.
    Congregational Story, Feature, Immersion Experience | February 19, 2025 | From Pacific Western Region
    Tagged as: Faith Development, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Middle School-Aged Youth Faith Development
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  • Starr King UU Church shares their Zoom Greeter Instructions for you to adapt and use in your own congregation.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 27, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility, Hospitality
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  • Reflections and tips on how to help make the Zoom experience better for both deaf and hard of hearing participants.
    Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Sarah Byrne | January 27, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • The Starr King UU Church shares tips, tools, and other resources for a Zoom Inclusion Ministry.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 27, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • Starr King UU Church shares their Zoom Inclusion Policy as an example for other churches to adapt.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Bylaws & Policies, Disability & Accessibility
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  • Micro-signals – Key Concepts Micro-signals are the little messages we send and receive that are subtle, contradictory, or unconscious. They’re the unstated messages you get when you “read between the lines.” They can be intentional or unintentional, conscious or unconscious, positive or...
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • In this section of the Guidebook your team is invited to do a deeper dive into the ministry of inclusion as we share our story at Starr King UU Church, including some theological reflection, frameworks, and tips.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • What does Zoom Inclusion look like and how does it impact the community? You can use this checklist and survey for an initial evaluation or assessment, then as a checklist or evaluation tool about how your inclusion ministry is serving your community.
    Book, Congregational Story | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • Multiplatform worship is the way of the future! Here are ideas on how to strengthen connection and community with improved multiplatform inclusion.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 9, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • While all churches often struggle with summer attendance and engagement, small congregations often find this to be a particular challenge. Here is an innovative way that two small congregations outside of Toledo, OH found to engage their members over the summer.
    Congregational Story | By Central East Region of the UUA | September 23, 2024 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Family Programs, Multigenerational Faith Development
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  • Three years ago, Nan Moore, Lay Community Minister and previous Religious Educator for United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts, created Spirit Circle, a religious exploration program that embodies the congregation's mission and values through hands-on multigenerational experiences.
    Congregational Story | By Emily Cherry, United First Parish Church, Quincy, MA | September 19, 2024 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Leadership Development
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  • Each week in the summer, Rev. Carolyn Patierno, minister of All Souls UU Congregation in New London, CT, hosts a lemonade stand on the sidewalk in front of the congregation. She greets passersby with a cold cup, no-strings-attached. What she has found is a source of connection and shared ministry.
    Congregational Story | By Emily Cherry, All Souls UU Congregation of New London, New London, CT | August 21, 2024 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Outreach & Marketing
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  • Strengthen and transform your UU community by creating a culture of inclusion where remote participants feel just as important, valued, and loved as in-person ones. Reach more people who need the lifesaving message of Unitarian Universalism.
    Congregational Story, Webinar | By Ben Ogilvie, Makanah Elizabeth Morriss, Melissa James | June 23, 2024 (reviewed January 2025) | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • Stories, resources, and practices shared by congregations in the spirit of creativity, group learning, and emerging practices. Consider sharing yours!
    Congregational Story | March 25, 2024 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Leadership Development
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  • A 120 member congregation sets and meets a goal of a 20% pledge increase to bring their staff up to UUA compensation guidelines.
    Congregational Story | By Cedar Valley Unitarian Universalists, Cedar Falls, IA | March 15, 2024 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Stewardship for Congregations
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  • Make joining more accessible and inclusive by allowing potential new members to find their own way to membership.
    Congregational Story | By Nicole Duff, Unitarian Universalist Association of Membership Professionals , East Shore Unitarian Church, Bellevue, WA | November 29, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership in Congregations
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  • We explore theological grounding for practices of community safety, share practical lessons from lived experience, and offer a framework of how to dynamically approach harm reduction with deep communal care.
    Congregational Story | October 23, 2023 (reviewed November 2024) | From Resilience Hub
    Tagged as: Bullying and Harassment, Religious & Civil Liberties, Resilience, Violence Prevention
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  • A team from the UU Church of Akron, Ohio created this series of teaching videos to help others learn how to avoid microaggressions in their interactions.
    Congregational Story | By UU Church of Akron, Fairlawn, OH | October 18, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Welcome & Inclusion for LGBTQ
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  • Treating zoom participants equitably and caringly in multiplatform worship is an expression of love and justice that can transform the community. Includes discussion questions for a self-led workshop.
    Congregational Story, Webinar | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | June 23, 2023 (reviewed January 2025) | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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  • What is some of the inner work we need to do for the deep spiritual practice of inclusion?
    Congregational Story, Reflection | By Ben Ogilvie | October 8, 2021 (reviewed January 2025) | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
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