On Friday, June 5, we had a lively forum with 36 attendees about building and other major projects, capital campaigns, and considerations going forward in the age of virtual church operations. The slides from the forum are available at the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DAEHG0JpLayneJPbvCjQmZDGYondXyDY/view?usp=sharing Please respond to this post to share any current or recent experiences […]
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The Stewardship For Us team will continue its weekly Zoom Symposiums this Friday at 10 AM Pacific time (11 am Mountain, Noon Central, 1 pm Eastern) this week. Topic and link are as follows: Zoom Symposium: Stewardship as Part of our Great Covenant Friday, April 3, 2020 10 am PT | 11 am MT
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Welcome to another in our series of Stewardship as Community Care posts, this one on budgeting. The Issue A large majority of our congregations are facing the start of a new church year on July 1, 2020, and budgeting for the new year is very much on everyone’s mind. There is no telling how the
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Stewardship as a Tool for Connecting So much has changed over the past week. It’s hard to keep up with the daily and hourly updates to guidance and mandates. We recognize that you are facing unprecedented challenges and stresses. This is especially so for the large majority of congregations conducting annual campaigns right now to
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New Year’s Greetings to all of you from all of us at Stewardship for Us. We are looking forward to an interesting year in 2020, we hope with excellent results for Unitarian Universalism and UU stewardship. The turning over of the calendar reminds me of a question we get frequently from congregation leadership: what is
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Greetings I am writing this e-newsletter while at various stops on a vacation/work trip out west. First stop was wild, wonderful, snowy Yellowstone Park, a beautiful place to visit in the dead of winter. Then on to Phoenix for a stewardship consulting weekend and a rained-out spring training baseball game – a pretty rare occurrence
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Ministers often ask us about their role in their congregation’s capital campaign. This question is both simple and complex, simple in that some roles are universal or nearly so, while others are based on the personalities and strengths of the minister and the lay leaders, as well as the culture, size, and governance of the
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Knowing when it is time to turn the page is an essential skill – for congregations and for individuals I’ve seen it more times than I can count. A congregation makes a transition, occasionally to fix something that is broken, but more often to take advantage of new opportunities or meet new challenges. A
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We have a special treat for this post: a guest blogger, Tom Dudzinski, who writes about the power of video storytelling in the service of UU stewardship, especially capital and combined campaigns. Tom is a pro who brings decades of video and communications experience to enhance congregations’ ability to reach and engage members and friends.
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Just to be clear – We posted this on 1 April, but this is NOT an April Fools Day post! Its the real deal. 🙂 The S4Us team asked for your suggestions and priorities for the next round of webinars and you provided a terrific list of topics. We have strived to combine as many
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