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Finding Your Congregation’s New Normal: Time to Create or Revisit a Strategic Plan

This past weekend, I (Liz) had the pleasure of Zoom-listening to UUA president Susan Frederick-Gray address the Annual UUA Southern Regional Assembly. Truly a comforting and inspiring speech, and several statements certainly require further reflection: “This is no time for casual faith…” “We need all the resilience and grounding we can muster…” “We are in […]

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Why and How to Do a Year End Giving Drive?

2 Comments / Stewardship / Mark Ewert

Many congregations send a single letter to all congregants for a year end effort. This year consider doing more – and you will get a different response! It can be as simple and easy as fits your capacity. Just be aware that if it is easy for you to do (efficient) it may be easy

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Capital Campaigns in the Virtual World

Stewardship / Mark Ewert

An Open Forum Follow Up Thank you to the 36 folks who joined us last Friday for the Open Forum on Capital Campaigns in the healthy distance world. There were some great questions and suggestions captured in the chat that the participants downloaded themselves during the Zoom. We also promised that we would post the

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Virtual Fundraisers for Fall and Beyond!

Stewardship / Kay Crider

The 2020-21 virtual church year is making us step up and be more creative than ever! Fall is often the time when we have fundraisers such as book sales, craft fairs, and auctions. Congregations are adapting these events to an online venue, staying connected and raising funds to support their mission, vision and programs. There’s

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General Assembly Workshop Recordings – Open!

Stewardship / Mark Ewert

If you missed it, video recordings from the Unitarian Universalist Association virtual General Assembly this past June are now available for your binge-watching online. You can watch the main plenary speakers, worship and ceremonies, business of the Association, and workshops. Unlike previous years, almost everything was recorded and is available. There are a couple of

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Virtual Stewardship for a New Church Year

Annual Campaign, Money, Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

Unitarian Universalist congregations did a terrific job reacting to the novel coronavirus pandemic. With support from the UUA and each other, we transformed operations to the virtual universe. We began conducting everything from Sunday services to religious education classes to meetings and small groups using Zoom. And stewardship followed suit as our congregations conducted successful

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Friday Forums are Back!

Stewardship / Rachel Maxwell

Stewardship for Us will host two virtual Friday Forums this Month: September 11th and September 25th. Stewardship Planning for the Year – Sept 11 Whether you have a Spring or Fall Pledging Campaign — or if you do year round pledging — it’s important to have an annual calendar to maintain momentum and develop

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Stewardship Training for Board Members

Stewardship / Rachel Maxwell

Many congregations hold retreats for their board in the summer months both to bring their new members up to speed and to determine priorities for the congregation. Include congregational stewardship in your planning and training of board members. Among the Board’s primary responsibilities to the congregation are: Serve the Mission Uphold and sustain the institution

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Stewardship and Leadership: Part II: We are ALL Called to be Stewardship Leaders

Stewardship / Barry Finkelstein

How can I as a stewardship leader, engage other church leaders in stewardship? Part I in this series identified four key leadership traits especially useful for stewardship: Trust Transparency Compassion Hope UUs recognize that effective financial stewardship is essential for carrying out our basic programs and fulfilling our mission. Many of us also recognize that

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Money as Medicine: Rooting, Inspiring, Readying Congregational Stewardship

Money, Resources, Social Justice, Stewardship / Rachel Maxwell

We hosted a lively program at virtual GA on June 26th, introducing Edgar Villanueva’s book, Decolonizing Wealth, and his seven steps to healing through money, or using money as medicine. Over 175 people joined our session to learn and discuss the ways in which their congregations can engage in this work. Villanueva’s Seven Steps are:

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