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  • Last week I skimmed over an article that talked about how Americans love to be the heroes but never want to do the long term work to make lasting change. And I wondered about that. Was it true? And then the storm of this past weekend happened.
    By Beth Casebolt | February 7, 2022 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership, Leadership Development
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  • During this unique time in history, the PWR has been looking at our assets and resources to help move the arc of the universe.  Putting our Generosity to Work is part of that effort to distribute residual grant monies collected at and prior to the 2013 Regional Assembly
    July 23, 2021 | From Pacific Western Region
    Tagged as: Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Congregations in Partnership
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  • On November 16th, the UUS of Greater Pittsburgh Cluster will gather for their Annual Assembly. This organization pulls together the energy of eleven congregations from the Pittsburgh area including one congregation from Ohio and one from West Virginia....
    By Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe | October 28, 2019 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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  • How do our UU congregations move from charity approach to social justice to solidarity approach? What does that mean, anyway?
    Webinar | By MidAmerica Region of the UUA, Ashley Horan | October 19, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership, Social Justice
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  • Recently we highlighted the Central East Region (CER) Chalice Lighter Program, sharing the HOW of applying for growth focused grants, and now we want to focus on WHY you as an individual should support this grant program....
    By Andrea Perry Lerner | September 17, 2018 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership, Fundraising for Congregations, Giving & Generosity
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  • Members of Central Unitarian Church in Paramus, NJ visited the Prague Unitarian Congregation in the Czech Republic from May 9 - 15. Members of both congregations hiked to the the Jan Hus pulpit, the rock located in the Benešov region southeast of Prague on which the early church reformer and martyr...
    July 25, 2016 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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  • The geography of Pittsburgh PA is challenging when trying to get from one part of the city to the other. With three rivers, a few tunnels and many bridges, it’s tempting to just stay in one’s own neighborhood. The UUs of Greater Pittsburgh challenged that tendency in the Fall of 2014 by...
    November 16, 2015 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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  • Partnerships sometimes emerge in strange but exciting ways. The Partnership of the UU congregations in Binghamton NY and Cortland NY is a mix of contrasting sizes, ages and histories.  But these contrasts bring strength to the relationship. This video shares the views of the ministers of the two...
    By Douglas Taylor, Joan Van Becelaere | November 2, 2015 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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  • As the choir joined voices from neighboring congregations into a rousing rendition of the Turtles’ song “Happy Together,” the cluster of UU churches in the Greater Pittsburgh area joined in their first annual “Cluster Assembly” and voted themselves into being on November 1, 2014.
    December 1, 2014 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership, Leadership Development
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  • Lately you've been hearing a lot about clusters, especially in relationship with regionalization. I've had folks ask, "So is clusters just a cheaper way to provide services?" Well, in some ways, yes, clearly it is less time consuming for staff to provide the same workshop once to a cluster than to...
    By Beth Casebolt | September 29, 2014 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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  • We can blur the lines of our traditional congregational and geographical borders to share resources, work together and increase our presence and impact to each other and the communities we serve.
    By David A Miller, Tera Little | May 5, 2014 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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  • The winter Olympics are in full swing in Sochi. The media report performance times, medal counts, stories of triumph and bitter disappointment. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement, which is a good thing for me, because it turns snow and cold into assets rather than something to struggle...
    February 10, 2014 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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  • Sharing is a good thing. My mother taught me that it was my duty as the eldest to share what I had with my two younger sisters. And we often urge our congregations to share with one another. If one or more of our congregations are experiencing some kind of hardship or natural disaster (flood,...
    By Joan Van Becelaere | February 3, 2014 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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  • Some respected congregational analysts have predicted those congregations which are not closely connected to and collaborating with other congregations will suffer in the future. To thrive in the modern American religious scene will most likely require networks of strong mutual support
    By Joan Van Becelaere | October 7, 2013 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
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