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July 2024 Newsletter
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 - Thursdays August 15, 22, 29, and September 5, 12:00-2:00pm ET Transitional Religious Leadership part 1 (online)
 - Wednesday, August 28, 1:00-4:00pm The Three C's of Staff Relations: Covenant, Conflict, and Community (online)
 - September 7, 10:00am-3:00pm NER JBR Kingston, MA (in-person) 
 - September 14, 10:00am-3:00pm NER JBR Norwich, VT (in-person) 
 - September 14, 10:00am-3:00pm NER JBR Manchester, CT (in-person) 
 - September 14, 10:00am-3:00pm NER JBR Bedford, MA (in-person) 
 - September 21, 10:00am-3:00pm NER JBR Augusta, ME (in-person) 
 - Thursdays October 10, 17, 24, 31, and November 7, 12:00-2:00pm ET Adaptive Leadership Practicum part 2 (online)
 - October 18-20 Mosaic Fall Conference, save the date in Bethesda, MD (hybrid)
NER News and Events
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Our NER Joint Board Retreats are back for fall 2024 with five in-person and one two-part online offerings!

Do you need some time as a leadership team to deepen connections, orient new leaders, and plan for the year ahead? Would you rather not have to build it yourself? Could you use some tools for leading in these challenging and unpredictable times?
Sounds like some Joint Board Retreats are in order!

As the new congregational year begins, we invite you to gather the leaders of your congregation with the leaders of your neighboring congregations. Instead of retreating separately, let’s retreat together.

Saturday, September 7 - First Parish in Kingston, MA
Saturday, September 14 - UU Congregation of the Upper Valley in Norwich, VT
Saturday, September 14 - UU Society: East in Manchester, CT
Saturday, September 14 - First Parish in Bedford, MA
Saturday, September 21 - UU Community Church, Augusta, ME

A two-part online offering will also be added soon! This offering will be held in the last week of September and first week of October.

Participating teams will…
  • Learn tools and techniques for leadership in challenging and unpredictable times.
  • Build or deepen connections on your team and orient new leaders.
  • Form or renew connections with leaders from neighboring congregations.
  • Set intentions/goals for the year ahead.

Registration and pre-work will be available soon. Check our website, your inbox for an invitation, and in our next newsletter!
We Want to Stay in Touch!
The New England Region is excited to announce that we have made upgrades to both our communications and data management systems over the course of the last year! These upgrades allow us to be in touch more frequently and in a more focused way - with events, resources, and other news. You may have noticed you're receiving more of these focused updates!

Help us keep you up to date by updating us on who your leaders are. This is especially important at this time of year, as many of you have recently elected new leaders.

Kindly head over to my.uua.org and check your congregation's personnel listed. The most complete information is the most useful! Please list all staff and lay leadership with their email addresses included.

If you are having trouble signing in or listing information, Data Services can help.

Additionally, we have a couple of lists that may be of interest to you! We are currently gathering data regarding 2024-2025 congregational and community OWL offerings. If your congregation is holding OWL, please consider letting us know! Thank you to all our congregations that participated this past church year. Even if your offerings will be the same for the next church cycle, please re-submit the listing.

We also have an NER Youth Ministries email list you can add your information to; this is a great way to ensure you stay up-to-date on Regional youth and emerging adult opportunities, trainings, events, and the like, even if you are not in a specific role such as RE committee chair.
UUA News and Events
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Please share your pledge data so we can track trends in giving!

Data is essential to all of us, but we need your help in supplying it! Please participate in the survey put out by the UUA’s partner Stewardship for Us.

Learn more and take the survey.
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As part of the ongoing work to dismantle racism and oppression, this will be a multi-platform time of skill-building and resource sharing, spiritual grounding, and transformation. Registration will open on Thursday, August 1.
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