Welcome to the second in our series of blogs on Stewardship as Community Care. In these times of social isolation, we can use our campaigns to reach out and connect with messages of compassion, concern and hope.. Virtual stewardship has much in common with on-site and in-person stewardship: Stewardship conversations are sacred conversations in whatever […]
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Join Us: Monday, March 23, 2020Noon-1:00 PM EDT, 11:00 AM Central, 10:00 AM Mountain, 9:00 AM PacificFree, With Support from the Unitarian Universalist Association Everything changed radically, and very quickly, in the last few weeks for UU congregations. Along with worship and religious education and lots of other programs going virtual, stewardship needs to adapt
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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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We’ve been getting a lot of calls about the current health crisis and its effect on Spring Annual Budget drives, fundraisers and capital campaigns. What should we do? People ask. My home congregation, the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation, is just north of Seattle, the city that’s had the worst outbreak of the virus. When this
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Here is a PDF of this document as well, if you want to download it.
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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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A myth is a story we tell again and again, that serves to explain why something is the way it is. A paradigm is a way that we look at things. A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the way we look at things. As the Poet Alberto Rios said in his poem, When
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The following is an article by Rev. Lauren Smith, who gave us permission to republish this piece which first appeared in the September 2019 edition of the UUA’s Monthly Tidings. Dear Friends, I hear stories like this all the time in my current capacity as Director of Stewardship and Development for the UUA: “A few
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Stewardship for Us is frequently contacted by congregations facing major decisions about their buildings. How can their spaces help them live out their missions and visions more fully? Should they invest in major capital repair? Can they do a multi-use redesign? Or maybe sell their building and move to a new location? This
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I am excited to be part of presenting an in-person workshop this Fall on stewardship practices grounded in our UU Principles, values, religious purposes, and – dare I say it? – faith. My partners in presenting will be Elizabeth Ann Terry, Unitarian Universalist Association Congregational Giving Specialist, and Connie Goodbread, Acting Co-Lead of the Unitarian
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