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5 Ways Social Media is Changing How People Join Congregations
by Peter Bowden This post was first published on Peter Bowden’s UU PLANET blog, and has been expanded to include recommended resources for Unitarian Universalists. With approximately seven-in-ten...
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Welcoming, Whiteness, and Pineapples
From the Outreach Revolution Series: sign up to get shareable social media graphics, learning experiences, and join other UU outreachers like you. A friend of mine sarcastically commented the other day...
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Look for the Unbuilders
by Natalie Briscoe, Congregational Life Field Staff for the UUA serving the Southern Region One of my favorite teaching stories is “The Carpenter and The Unbuilder.” The main character of the story is...
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Xmas CTA: Engaging visitors during the holidays
This post (and its customizable social media graphics!) is offered through the monthly Outreach Updates. Sign up here to get your outreach virtual care package each month. It’s hard to believe it’s...
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Six Key Mistakes for Recruiting Volunteers in Your Congregation
The following article was translated from an article from Thom S. Rainer, a Christian growth strategist called Six Terrible Ways to Recruit Ministry Volunteers in Your Church. The following are...
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Commissioning: Called to Care
At First Church in Sterling, we trained 18 folks to be members of our “Called to Care” team (a training created by the UCC). When their training was completed, I had a private ceremony for the team,...
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Starting a RACI Conversation
Photo used and cropped with permission: http://tinyurl.com/j4ygsuh At first glance, it seemed like the evening news did a good job of covering this year’s Pride Parade. After all, the Minister of the...
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Sophia Fahs Sunday 2016
So many of us are longing to be a part of an authentic multigenerational community. A place where children, youth, adults, and elders share, learn, worship and grow together. We believe one of the most...
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Tops Picks for Growth at General Assembly
Are you looking for new ideas to grow your congregation? General Assembly is just around the corner, and there are a dozen workshops on growth to choose from. Here’s a list, sorted by topic for you to...
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4 Things Crowdfunding Can Teach The Church
I became a Unitarian Universalist for one reason, and one reason only. You might have many reasons why you became a Unitarian Universalist, or remained one if you grew up within the faith. I have only...
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Road Trip! We’re better together!
We’re better together. You’ve heard this before. And often it is in the context of pooling resources to create something larger than we could offer as a separate entity. I’m hear to tell you that...
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Reflection on Moving, Wisdom, Humility, and Reaching Out
Last week I took a quick trip to Boston to attend Terasa Cooley’s good-bye party and to meet, in person, with several colleagues who normally are only in my zoom room on my computer screen. The...
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This Here Is Some Radical Polity
The subject of the email was: “If we set a date, it will happen”. It was sent to a small group of Canadian Young Adults who’d been talking in pockets and clusters for a while about how to “do...
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Meaning Makers
“The closest UU congregation is far away and I don’t have a car” “There’s no UU group at my college” “I work the brunch shift Sunday mornings but I still need spiritual community” “I miss the peer...
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MultiSite Ministries: Economies of Scale
The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the UUA said, “Growth and sharing our faith is a moral obligation.” Beginning with the 2013-2014 church year, the UU Church of Canandaigua NY and First Unitarian...
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Faith Forward
Newcomers to First Unitarian Church of Dallas arrive at our doors seeking a path. The Unitarian Universalist tendency to tell people they can believe whatever they want and get involved in whatever...
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Becoming a Multi-Everything Faith
When I was asked to do a presentation for my start-up at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu in 2011, I immediately thought of a growth strategy that didn’t just involve numbers and finances (the...
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Gingerbread and Engaging Space
On my way to work in Boston I walk past the Boston Society of Architecture. Its storefront is attractive, but hasn’t been overtly noticeable to me until this holiday season. I do see people through...
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When Superman Goes Home: Pastoral Care in A World of Limits
At Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church our pastoral care team, the Caring Circle, was and is an amazing group of people. They get a call and they spring into action. Food. Transportation. Lawn...
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I’m Lost, But I’m Making Record Time
I heard the quote in the title of this blog as a young pilot many years ago. A World War II pilot radioed that report in –he had no idea where he was, but he was making great progress somewhere. As a...
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