For Whatever the Future Holds

The UUMA has gathered to strategize how to support you, beloved colleagues, as we collectively cope with the outcome of the US election and (continue to) prepare for our work ahead. 

• What is love asking of me now?: Some of us have some real questions about our own safety and the safety of our families. If this is you, we invite you to set up a 1:1 discernment conversation with MFN Program Manager, Rev. Michelle Favreault. This might be useful if you are considering…
  • Shifting your ministerial setting
  • Making geographic moves 
  • Reorienting your calling
  • Resourcing for personal, family and community safety and security 
  • Clarifying physical, spiritual and emotional wellness priorities for where we are and what’s ahead
  • And whatever is on your heart as you make decisions about who and how to serve
• Refresher on Fascism: If you never got around to reading Timothy Snyder’s little book, On Tyranny, or read it a while ago and would like a refresher and a chance to discuss with colleagues, we have the space for you. On Tuesday, November 26 at 12pm ET/ 11am CT/ 10am MT/ 9am PT we’ll discuss lessons 1-10 and we’ll meet again on Tuesday, December 3 at 12pm ET/ 11am CT/ 10am MT/ 9am PT to discuss lessons 11-20. Join Director of Ministries and Programs, Rev. Melissa Carvill Ziemer, for either or both sessions to think with others about how we can apply these lessons in our ministries. Click the dates and times above to register. If you want to attend both sessions please register for session 1.
• How the heck does this make sense?: One of the key roles we serve as ministers is to help folks make meaning of difficult moments in their lives. That is especially challenging when we can’t make meaning ourselves! Join me (Julica) for a meaning-making session; I will review Martha Beck’s “Map of Change” (in Finding Your Own North Star) and we will use this model as a launching pad for a conversation of mutual support and encouragement. I will offer the same session twice, please click to register on Wednesday, November 20 at 7pm ET/ 6pm CT/ 5pm MT/ 4am PT or Wednesday, December 11 at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT.
• Collegial Care in Anxious Times: During this challenging season in ministry, there might be times when you, the pastor, would welcome the blessing of pastoral care for yourselves. If you have one of those weeks, you are invited to consider joining me for an experience of collegial pastoral care. From now through the end of the year, Melissa will have 4 thirty-minute time slots available each week with no agenda required. Click here to find a time.

Because We Need One Another…