Regular updates from UUCF’s Board of Directors. Please click on headings to read in full.
Highlights From UUA General Assembly 2024
July 8, 2024. Dear UUCF Community, More than 3,400 Unitarian Universalists from across the U.S. and abroad gathered for an all-virtual Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) General Assembly (GA) June 20–23. GA, an annual event, provides opportunities for UUs to connect, learn, and conduct important business of the association. UUCF is grateful to its delegates – […]
Proposed 2024-25 UUCF Budget
May 17, 2024. Dear UUCF Community, Thank you! 341 members pledged $889k for next year’s budget. Learn more at a Budget Forum on May 22. The UUCF Board of Directors is proposing the attached budget (and below) for the 2024-25 congregational year, to be approved at the Annual Meeting on Sun., Jun. 2, at 11:15 a.m. […]
Final Report on Staff Restructuring
At the congregation’s last annual meeting, the Board of Directors discussed current challenges in the financial sustainability of religious communities, including UUCF. To address these financial challenges, the board determined, as difficult as it was going to be, the need for a staffing analysis and review of congregational programs. The goal would be to move […]
Update on Proposed Revisions to Article II of the UUA Bylaws
As Unitarian Universalists, we have many backgrounds and beliefs – and no “one creed” to pledge to. What we do have, however, is a collection of shared principles and values articulated in Article II of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) bylaws. These principles and values help guide how UUs live our lives. The proposed revision to […]
Introducing the Congregational Restructuring Advisory Team
The UUCF Board of Directors has now established the Congregational Restructuring Advisory Team (Advisory Team) charged with studying UUCF’s staffing and programs. Specifically, the Board has asked the Advisory Team to do a comprehensive study of UUCF’s personnel expenses and make recommendations for reducing them. An integral part of the study will be a thorough […]
UUCF Members Sought to Serve on Congregational Restructuring Advisory Team
Posted Jun. 14, 2023. As announced at the Annual Meeting on Jun. 4, UUCF will address how to effectively serve its mission with the financial realities of our time by examining staffing and program needs. To start this process, a Congregational Restructuring Advisory Team is being formed in July to study staffing/programs and then make […]
What If We Pledged Courageously to Meet Our Mission?
Mar. 21, 2023. By David Michael, Treasurer, UUCF Board of Directors. This year’s annual pledge campaign – “What If” – is about possibilities. As people return to campus and others find us for the first time, and as rental and other revenue are going up, we have a window of opportunity. What if we were […]
The Evolution of our Faith
Oct. 30, 2022. By Susan Bennett, President, UUCF Board of Directors. When I first became a Unitarian Universalist over 30 years ago, one of the first things that resonated with me was the Five Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion articulated by James Luther Adams, the most influential Unitarian Universalist theologian of the 20th Century. Adams wrote, “Religious […]