How do congregations not only create a mission but also learn to live it afterwards? This video series shares the experiences of the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh in creating their new mission and living it since then.
Topics we will touch on include: a short introduction to faith development, models for adult faith development, 10 building blocks, and creating a plan.
Theology is the process of talking about faith in a thoughtful and organized way—how faith arises, what sustains it, why it falters, and where it can make a difference in our lives and world.
This course provides training resources for candidates who have been accepted into the Commissioned Lay Leader Program in:
Recruiting, Nurturing and Sustaining Volunteers
Recruiting and retaining capable board members and committee chairs is a pervasive problem for many congregations. The Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church has a locally designed seminar that helps members prepare for leadership.
The 2007 UU University in Portland, OR keynote presenter was Gil Rendle. The topic of the day was congregations and change. This class is created from the video of that day's presentations and resources.
Grounded in Mission and Vision
We believe that stewardship can be a transformative ministry to people's daily lives and that stewardship education is a ministry to the whole person. Churches that minister to the entirety of people's financial lives experience an authentic generosity among their members. These churches assist people in navigating a materialist culture and are then able to leave behind cajoling and coaxing people into giving.
This course reviews the many areas of safety that a congregation needs to consider when creating a comprehensive safety policy. You can do all of the webinar, or you can choose the topics that are most relevant for your congregation now.
diversity of culture and beliefs? By our promises to one another. Learn how to create a congregational covenant and keep it a living document.
Websites are our new congregational front door. 90-95% of our visitors have learned about our congregations from their websites before they ever walk through our front door. This webinar focuses on the creation, design, re-design of a congregational website. We will look at policies and procedures, content, management and design.
Social Media is the new frontier in communications. How do we use facebook, blogs, twitter, and youtube to enhance communications among our current congregational members, reach out to potential members and let other know that we're just here? This webinar will walk through the basic understandings of social media and how congregations can start to use this new technology for a variety of uses.
Unitarian Universalism is uniquely poised to address the changing needs of a world, but we need leaders who understand that each generation has it's own character. The large population of Baby Boomers are heading toward retirement, but there are still many leaders from the Silent Generation. Generation X is hitting mid-life, and the new Millenniel Generations has a high percentage of the religiously unaffiliated. This course gives an overview of the different generations so that today's leaders can respond to these changes while honoring the gifts and passions of each generation.
Our congregations are meant to be places where we find spiritual nourishment and challenge to live lives of meaning and purpose in the world. The multigenerational church is a vehicle through which we learn to practice our values. Intentional multigenerational ministry involves learning to meet the 'other' with curiosity and good will; embracing the richness and texture that diversity brings to a community; and questioning dominant assumptions about generalized groups of people and coming to know one another as we wish to be known. Witnessing the ways that the sacred speaks through each of us uniquely and listening for the sacred voice in one another's experiences makes our whole community more in touch with the call of the divine.
Topics we will touch on include: the spiritual needs of children, creating rituals at home, how Unitarian Universalism fits into identity development, and how parents can prepare themselves for the role as primary religious educator.
Our second principle invites us to covenant to affirm and promote: justice, equity and compassion in human relations. Fulfilling this affirmation, this promise, requires that we attend carefully to systems of injustice in our midst and the hurts those systems cause. It requires that we be prophets, daring to work in this life for a Now that gets us closer to fulfilling the promise of our sixth principle: the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. Dismantling systems of privilege and oppression within our community faith allows us to co-create the Beloved Community of Love and Justice that we aspire to.
Ministry in the Borderlands, theme of this year's UU University, invites congregational leaders to consider the challenges and rewards of faithful engagement across the borders of religious identity— both within our congregations and in our larger communities. Our keynote speaker, the Rev. Nick Carter, president of Andover Newton Theological School, is passionate about the possibilities and realistic about the challenges.
The 2006 UU University in St. Louis, MO covered "The Emotional Dynamics of Leadership". This class is developed from the videos and resources of that presentation
The Next 20 years: Introduction to Faith Formation 2020. For the past several years, many religious professionals have been engaged in a conversation about the future of faith formation. The changing demographics and changing societal attitudes about religion will almost certainly require us to changes how we envision religious education in the congregation. Join this webinar to hear the latest ideas being generated by this compelling look at our changing landscape.
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County (UUFCC), PA has created a holistic Sunday morning hosptiality program that ensures that guest have a wonderful, welcoming experience. 
Welcome to the online training center for the Central East Regional Group of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Here you will find on-demand webinars as well as course materials related to scheduled webinars and in-person trainings.
To take a course or to participate in an on-demand webinar, you will need to register and log-in. Just click on the link in the upper right-hand corner of this page. (This helps keep out spammers and helps us to find our how well we are serving you!)
There is no fee for any of the webinars. The services and the programs of the Central East Regional Group are provided through the generous support of the UUA and of the four member districts: The Joseph Priestley District, the Metro New York District, the Ohio-Meadville District, and the St. Lawrence District.
Special thanks to the Unitarian Sunday School Society for a grant that purchased the video equipment used to bring many live presentations to this on-demand website!
Additional on-demand webinars are available from other regional groups.
Midwest UU Leadership Page:
http://www.midwestuuleadership.org/
Pacific Northwest District (webinar recordings available for past live webinars):
http://www.pnwd.org/content.aspx?ID=50
The CERG YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/cerguua1/videos?view=1