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Association Sunday 2007: Growing Our Numbers

Association Sunday 2007 was a Huge Success!

Thank you once again for making our first annual Association Sunday a great success! We launched our national awareness campaign in Time magazine and reached out to those across our country seeking a liberal religious home. The Diversity of Ministry Initiative is gearing up to expand their programs to support ministers of color. And, districts have already received funding for growth grants to benefit congregations in your area.

But most importantly, your participation proved that when we come together and recognize our common purposes, our pride in our vibrant tradition increases as does our desire to share it with the world.

626 congregations representing nearly 130,000 Unitarian Universalists took the time from their busy calendars to conduct an Association Sunday. All of them feel financial pressures, but they care about you and our Association so much that in addition to their Annual Program Fund contributions they contributed over $1.4 million as of July 22, 2008, to Grow Our Faith.

UPDATE: Read more about how growth grants to districts have been put to use to help grow Unitarian Universalism in your area!

And, print and share a summary (PDF) of how the money raised by the first two Association Sunday celebrations is helping to Grow Our Faith.

The Association Sunday 2007 Annual Report is available online.

The report provides many important details about our first ever Association Sunday and it recognizes all of those congregations that came together to celebrate and strengthen our connections.

The following documents are in PDF format.

Whole Report (38 pages)

Or, you can access individual pieces of the report for quick viewing:

If you have any questions about anything in the report, or about Association Sunday in general, please contact us at associationsunday @ uua.org or (617) 948-6544.

Last updated on Friday, July 17, 2009.