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The Delmarva Cluster has a grant program that began at the First Unitarian Church of Wilmington, DE called Grants For Growth.October 19, 2020 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article -
The West Shore UU Church in Rocky River, Ohio has been experimenting with different circle formats (e.g. World Café, Peace Circles). One of their board members, Brian Gardner, was inspired and wrote the following theological reflection on the process:September 28, 2020 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Building CommunityPage/Article -
Membership in UU Congregations is an intentional process of commitment and covenant. This guide provides practices and tools useful in training membership teams and/or professionals.Leader Resource | September 24, 2020 (reviewed December 2024) | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article -
Practices and tools to provide radical hospitality.Book | September 24, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: HospitalityPage/Article -
Although humans can’t gather at church, stuffed animals still can! Plan your own stUUfieCON!Summary | By Jenni Papp | September 21, 2020 | From Better TogetherTagged as: #COVID19, Building Community, Multigenerational Faith DevelopmentPage/Article -
“We want to look more diverse but we don’t want to be more diverse.” While it may not be said, it’s a sentiment often lived out in our congregations. We’ll explore the subtle ways in which our congregational systems keep ourselves in place and what we can do differently.Webinar | By Keith Kron, Patrice K. Curtis | September 14, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: #WidenTheCircle, Diversity & Inclusion, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article -
How do you prepare people to lead within and beyond the walls of your congregation? Learn about Faith Forward, a path for engagement that nurtures UU roots,inspires participants to give of themselves, and prepares them to engage sustainably in the world from a spiritually grounded, faithful place.Webinar | By Beth Dana, Marie Luna | September 14, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Leadership Development, Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article
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Paula Cole Jones introduced the notion of congregations as a Community of Communities to foster inclusion and diversity at last year’s Fahs Lecture. We’ll expand on how to introduce and begin practicing this new framing in your congregation.Webinar | By Paula Cole Jones, Renee Ruchotzke | September 14, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: #WidenTheCircle, Building Community, Governance for CongregationsPage/Article
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Although humans can’t gather at church, stuffed animals still can! Plan your own stUUfieCON!Summary | By Jenni Papp | September 12, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: #COVID19, Building Community, Multigenerational Faith DevelopmentPage/Article
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As we move into the new normal, we have a chance to find models of community and connection that reflect our vision of who we are.By Renee Ruchotzke | August 10, 2020 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Building CommunityPage/Article -
Multisite involves multiple congregations or covenanted communities sharing staff, programming, and mission to have greater impact and reach.Utility | July 23, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Membership Growth & OutreachPage/Article -
Sometimes the simplest language can be the most effective.By Liz James | June 1, 2020 | From UU WorldTagged as: Class, Diversity, Membership Growth & Outreach, SimplicityPage/Article -
How do we learn to live, as people and as congregations, like we are worthy of love? How do we live into compassion for ourselves and others?Utility | By Eric Dew Bliss | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Compassion, Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, Multiculturalism, Shame, WorthPage/Article
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How do we as people and as congregations meet the intensity of this moment with curiosity instead of defensiveness?Utility | By Tandi Rogers | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith Development, Listening, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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Many of our congregations can sometimes get stuck in polarized, either/or thinking. Are you an atheist or a theist? Are you racist or woke? The deeper spiritual truth is such divisions are an illusion.Utility | By Jonipher Kūpono Kwong | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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In our striving to do our best and be our best, we as people and we as congregations can sometimes gravitate toward perfectionism--a force that cuts us, and others, down. How can we learn to honor the good about who we are and what we're accomplishing, knowing that it's incomplete, knowing that it's imperfect?Utility | By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith Development, Gratitude, Membership Growth & Outreach, Multiculturalism, WholenessPage/Article
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December 4, 2019 The first of the candles in the Advent Wreath is the candle of Hope. In the Lutheran tradition of my childhood, we always lit Advent candles this time of year. Winter is often a time when we look for hope. We look with hope for the return of the sun in the months to come. We hope...Utility | By Sarah Movius Schurr | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Despair, Faith Development, Hope, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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What would our communities and our lives be like if we lived from our faith more than from our fear?Utility | By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith, Faith Development, Fear, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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Shifting from the hyperindividualistic thinking embedded in so much of American culture to an interdependent collective way of being.Utility | By Tandi Rogers | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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September 2019 This is the season of shifts—some of you have new staff, new board members, and a new church year upon us. We are all shifting gears of sorts. Your regional program staff is also shifting into the new year. Our late August retreat felt like a launch into a new era for us. This...Utility | By Tandi Rogers | May 12, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Change, Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article