Congregations in Partnership

At a time when resources are not always at a level we would like them to be at, we may find that pooling our resources with our neighboring congregations.

How do our UU congregations move from charity approach to social justice to solidarity approach?

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...

Fiscal Sponsorship Small Covenanted Communities, new Congregations and new Microsites usually need a partner or home congregation to act as Fiscal Sponsor.

Experimental partnerships are not necessarily considered to be multisite, but many UU experimental efforts are in such deep relationship that thinking o...

Joined (sometimes called merged) congregations are a form of partnership in which two congregations decided to join their budgets, boards, programs and...

Coupled* congregations are bound by shared staff and shared programming. Each congregation retains their own budget, bylaws and church board.  By joining forces to create a larger staff team or to achieve a full-time ministry, the mission of each congregation is enhanced.
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Branch and Trunk (sometimes called "Satellite" or “Branch Campus”) model is the most common of multisite congregational partnership. These multisites...

There are a number of different ways that congregations can branch out, join together or share resources....

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...