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The UUA offers a wide variety of resources and
services for member congregations and lay and professional leaders.
These include:
- Congregational Services:
support for the health and
growth of congregations and other UU communities. This staff group offers
helpful information and resources on Congregational Fundraising, Growth
Resources and conferences, Young Adult & Campus Ministry, Urban
Congregations, Congregational Ethics & Safety, Lay Leadership,
Data and Information Services, New
Congregation Formation, Congregational
Justice Making, and Religious Education Covenanting.
- Social
Justice: takes Unitarian Universalist values
out into the wider world. They work to insert Unitarian Universalist
perspectives into public debates on the matters of the day
through our media advocacy, through working in partnerships
with other religious and secular organizations who share our
viewpoints, and through empowering local congregations to
do the same.
- Ministry & Professional
Leadership: encouraging excellence
in professional religious leadership, this staff group serves
ministers, religious professionals, and congregations by providing
counsel, leadership, and resources. The staff group also provides
information and support for education, credentialing, and settlement
for ministers and religious educators, as well as counsel in career
development, ministerial-congregational relations, and financial
planning.
- Lifespan Faith Development:
provides information and resources to promote lifespan religious
education and effective religious education leadership, nurture
the religious growth of children, youth, and adults; and support
and develop the religious life of families and communities.
- Identity-Based Ministries: seeks to make Unitarian Universalism a welcoming, inclusive, empowering, and just faith for Unitarian Universalists who identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, and/or transgender; economically oppressed; Latina/Latino and Hispanic; multiracial families; people of color; and people with disabilities.
- Specialized Ministries information is also
available with links from this page to the Church of Larger
Fellowship, a congregation by phone, FAX, and internet spread
around the world, the UUA
International Office, the Spanish language website, Unitarios
Universalistas, Young
Religious UUs (YRUU), and the UU
Young Adult Network & Campus Ministry Office.
In addition, the UUA hosts a variety of Communication
Forums online to deepen and expand perspectives of UUism and promote
sharing and dialogue between and among UU leaders and members as well as those
who seek to understand more about our faith.
Did you know that over 200 individuals look for a UU congregation each
week online? Find
a UU congregation near you by visiting our congregational
search pages.
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