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If you dropped into a meeting of the executive team at Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul, MN (787 members), you might wonder who was in charge. The team is composed of the two co-ministers, the Revs. Janne and Rob Eller-Isaacs; director of resource development Louise Wolfgramm; and director of...By Donald E. Skinner | August 15, 2005 | From InterConnectionsTagged as: Congregational Administration, Governance for Congregations, Leadership DevelopmentPage/Article
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Q. One of the things we struggle with as a congregation is cultivating enough leaders. Our current leaders are getting burned out and there aren’t enough new ones coming up to replace them. We’re getting frustrated. A. Try the following ways, says Eunice Benton, district executive for the...By Donald E. Skinner | August 15, 2005 | From InterConnectionsTagged as: Governance for Congregations, Leadership Development, Membership in Congregations, Support and Caring in CongregationsPage/Article
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This process can be run in a morning, afternoon, or a longish evening. The program works well with teenagers on up to seniors. Provide a variety of spaces for people to sit and work—some will want to work at tables, others may prefer comfortable chairs, and still others may want to sit on the...Leader Resource | June 16, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
The words vision, mission, and covenant have been used but the meanings have varied over time and context. This is one model of understanding.June 15, 2005 (reviewed March 2026) | From LeaderLabTagged as: Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
Teams who are just forming, or who have an important project, need to take the time to form as a team. A team retreat is a time for the members of the team to get to know one another and figure out how to work well together.June 15, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Covenant, Effective Meetings, Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
All congregations must understand that the instruments of congregational polity will vary with the size of the congregation. The practices of governance must be suited to the characteristics of the individual congregation. ...June 15, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Governance for Congregations, Small CongregationsPage/Article -
From the earliest days of recorded history in the Western world, there are stories of vision, mission, and covenant as foundational parts of religious community. These stories have been told in song, dance, and language, and they are the story of community—individual stories woven into an...June 15, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Covenant, Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
Every congregation would like to have a substantial endowment fund. But many never get there. We hate to ask for the money. We’re afraid we won’t know how to manage it well. Or that there might be disagreements about how to use it. There are good reasons to overcome those obstacles, says Marcy...By Donald E. Skinner | June 15, 2005 | From InterConnectionsTagged as: Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Benefits & Compensation for Congregations, Finance for Congregations, Fundraising for Congregations, Governance for Congregations, Investments for Congregations, Socially Responsible InvestingPage/Article
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Does any congregation ever have enough volunteers? Most of us struggle with that. It can be one of the most frustrating parts of being a lay leader. But there are ways to make finding and keeping volunteers less of a problem. Start by asking them the right way: face-to-face....By Donald E. Skinner | June 15, 2005 | From InterConnectionsTagged as: Governance for Congregations, Leadership Development, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Membership in CongregationsPage/Article
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Learning to practicie helpful and healthy behaviors allows us to act on our stated beliefs and values.Leader Resource | By Qiyamah Rahman | June 11, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Covenant, Healthy BehaviorPage/Article -
All congregations must understand that the instruments of congregational polity will vary with the size of the congregation. The practices of governance must be suited to the characteristics of the individual congregation.Leader Resource | June 1, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Governance for Congregations, Large Congregations, Small CongregationsPage/Article -
An overview of how UU governance developed over time.Leader Resource | June 1, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Governance for Congregations, UU HistoryPage/Article -
Governance is the system by which a congregation exercises its authority. A congregation may use any system to govern itself; it may change systems frequently or entirely ignore the systems it claims as its own, but as long as the congregation lives, it will continue to exercise authority.Leader Resource | June 1, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Governance for CongregationsPage/Article -
The vision, mission, covenant and other guiding documents can be incorporated into the life of the congregation in an unlimited number of ways in order to keep them in front of the members. The following are some suggestions:Leader Resource | March 18, 2005 (reviewed August 2025) | From LeaderLabTagged as: Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
To keep your mission, vision, covenant and other guiding documents relevant, it's helpful to revisit them every 5-7 years.Leader Resource | March 18, 2005 (reviewed March 2026) | From LeaderLabTagged as: Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
UU Communities can be very different from one another! Use this continuum exercise to see how your congregations understands itself.By Barbara Child | March 18, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Covenant, Ministerial Transitions, Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
Vision statements need to be useful to the leaders. Effective vision statements tend to have common characteristics.Leader Resource | March 16, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
A consensus decision-making model empowers participants to cooperate with one another in order to reach an outcome that is in the best interest of the group as a whole and that furthers the group’s stated purpose.Leader Resource | By First Parish in Lexington, Lexington, MA | March 15, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Change & Conflict, Effective Meetings, Governance for CongregationsPage/Article -
As your congregation moves into times of discernment, such as doing vision, mission, or covenant work, powerful questions are ways to surface deep understandings and creative ideas.March 15, 2005 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Covenant, Covenant Groups & Small Group Ministry, Mission/Vision/PlanningPage/Article -
Last fall was not the first time the basement of the First Unitarian Universalist (UU) Society of Marietta, OH (94 members), had flooded. Situated just blocks from the Ohio and the Muskingum rivers, flooding goes with the territory....By Donald E. Skinner | March 15, 2005 | From InterConnectionsTagged as: Congregational Administration, Facilities Management, Finance for Congregations, Governance for CongregationsPage/Article