| UUA Org Overview of Leadership Materials | |
| Summary information | Lists Topics and subtopics available from the UUA at this site: http://www.uua.org/leaders/development/index.shtml |
| UUA's Interconnections site .... On the Internet | |
| Web page - Current page | Articles on Congregational Leadership issues for churches of all sizes. |
| Attracting Young Adults" | |
| MP3 audio 5 min. | UUA. Short audio for listening while travelling in the car. |
| "Defining Family Ministry" | |
| Questionnaire - 1 page | Pat HoertDoerfer. "...to help congregations become more family-friendly and to help families at home nurture their Unitarian Universalist faith. May they stimulate your own creativity in family programming." |
| "Making Workship a Part of Kids' Lives" ... On the Internet | |
| 2010, Interconnections article, 4 pages. | The Rev. Krista Taves believes children belong in worship. With adults. For more than 15 minutes. And for the past three years that’s what has happened at the 100-member Emerson Unitarian Universalist Chapel in Ellisville, MO, a suburb of St. Louis. For fully the first half of every service, all children are in attendance. They take part in singing and candle lighting and are there for a prayer, the offertory, and a story before being sung out to their own children’s chapel. |
| "Breakthrough Congregations 2007: Camp Springs Maryland" | |
| DVD - borrow from DT | UUA. 14 minutes. Experience a congregation living their inspiring vision and showing us the potential of Unitarian Universalism. |
| "Vision, Mission, and Covenant:Creating a Future Together" | |
| UUA, 2005. 100 pages | Booklet on a useful "Visioning" process. "This document on vision, mission, and covenant assumes that not only are Unitarian Universalist congregations worth strengthening but also that the message of our religious movement is important to the world around us. We provide a saving message that people need and want to hear—one of equality of all people, of the need to strive for social justice, of the glory that there is nothing that we need to do to be deemed worthy." |
| Why Liberal Churches Are Growing ... On the Internet ... All Videos from UUA 2007 General Assembly | |
| Video from UUA General Assembly 2008 | UUA. 1 hour 8 minutes. |
| Congregational Self-Assessment Package | |
| Article in 3 parts, Part 2 is ... | "An Annual Congregational Evaluation This approach is best used as part of an annual planning retreat of a congregation or its leadership. It includes an assessment form for congregational members and an outline of an annual planning event for the congregational leadership or the congregation. This approach is best for a one-day retreat. Congregation members or participants in the retreat can be asked to complete the form prior to the retreat and then work during the retreat to determine congregational goals that are informed by the assessment." |
| Joanne and Jim - Where Do We Go From Here | |
| RUF, 2009. 4 pages... | "Joanne Green and Jim Struthers list and discuss many things to consider about our future direction." |
| Meetings that Work | |
| UUA, 2005. 36 pages... | "At their best, meetings provide opportunities to share ideas, discover new insights, connect with people, nurture community, reflect on one's faith, create new directions, and make innovative and responsible decisions. Meetings that matter enable participants to feel that their unique contributions will combine with the contributions of others to yield experiences, ideas, and decisions that are greater than the sum of their parts." |
| Effective Congregational Committees | |
| UUA, 2005. 37 pages... | "This document is primarily concerned with ongoing, or standing, committees in a congregation. However, many of the qualities of a good committee also apply to a good task group or task force—which is, basically, a temporary committee." |