Selected Resources for Church Staff (Paid and Volunteer)
All Church Staff
- Congregational Handbook: How to Develop a Healthy and Vital Unitarian Universalist (UU) Congregation
- Updating Your Congregation's Information (members, address, website, subscriptions, etc.)
- Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Health Plan
- Church Staff Compensation (UUA Staff Contacts)
- WorshipWeb: a variety of worship resources (sermons, quotes, meditations, prayers, blessings, etc.)
- Ideas for Small (up to 150 members), Midsize (151-550), and Large (over 550) Congregations
- Safe Congregations: information about safe congregations, covenants, disruptive behavior, right relations, professional misconduct, disaster trauma response, and other concerns regarding ethics and safety.
- ARAOMC: learn, grow, and educate on behalf of the UUA's anti-racist, anti-oppression, multicultural mission.
Administrators
- Congregational Handbook
- Data Services: update your congregation's listings with the UUA
- Congregational Monthly Mailing
- UUA Bookstore: Church Administration and Leadership
- Email List: Church-Admin-UU
- Meetings That Work (PDF, 38 pages)
- Personnel Policy Manual for Religious Organizations
- Your Congregation's Bylaws: A Guide to Effective Writing and Revising
- Association of UU Administrators
- Leaders' Library Resources on Administration
Campus Ministry Coordinators
- Campus Ministry Resources
- Connect UU: on online database with listings of young adult and campus ministry groups and events
- Campus Ministry Grants
- The Young Adult and Campus Ministry Resource Catalogue (PDF, 12 pages) a helpful annotated list of our resources and services for young adult and campus ministry
Financial Officers
- Building Loans and Grants
- Church Staff Compensation
- Email List: UU-Money
- Endowment Fund
- Endowment Fund Guide for UU Congregations (PDF, 49 pages)
- Financial Management for Congregations
- Group Insurance
- Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
- Taxes, Clergy Housing, Social Security and Medicare
- A Really Good Booklist On Financial Planning
- Leaders' Library Resources on Money: Accounting / Finances
Membership Coordinators/Directors
- The Membership Journey (PDF, 53 pages)
- Membership Resources: Hospitality and Belonging
- Email Lists:
Musicians
- UUA Music Leadership Credentialing
- Hymnals
- WorshipWeb
- UU Musicians Network
- Leaders' Library Resources on Worship / Music
Religious Educators
- Department of Lifespan Faith Development (LFD), Unitarian Universalist Association
- Religious Education Credentialing (UUA Staff Contacts)
- UUA Health Plan
- Email Lists:
- Leaders' Library Resources on Religious Education
Webweavers
- Creating a Congregation Website
- Chalice Clip Art
- Email List: Websters
- Leaders' Library Resources on Website Development
Young Adult Program Directors/Coordinators
- Young Adult Ministry Resources Page
- The Young Adult and Campus Ministry Resource Catalogue (PDF, 12 pages) is a helpful annotated list of our resources and services for young adult and campus ministry.
- The Guide to Young Adult Ministry (PDF, 52 pages): contact the Office of Young Adult Ministries to request a hard copy.
- Young Adult Ministry Grants
Youth Directors/Youth Advisors
- Chrysalis Training Program: advisor trainings and more
- Email Lists:
- Advisor-L: discussion list for youth advisors
- Youth Advisors' Handbook
- Office of Youth Ministries
- Youth Advisor of the Year Award
Last updated on Wednesday, September 2, 2009.
