Our Faithify Campaign Launches!
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
~ William Shakespeare
Greetings UUCT!
We are excited to announce the beginning of our Faithify Campaign to support the second year of work on our Restorative Congregations Process!
- This year, we are grateful for the generous pledges of congregants and our larger community to fund our work.
- We are using Faithify, a UU crowdfunding platform, to raise an additional $5,000 in support of our consultation with Rev. Dr. Samantha Wilson.
- (If you were with us on Sunday, you heard more about this launch and the potential of this work.)
Click here for the YouTube of the service, “Dignifying Our Pasts.”
What UUCT can do if we raise these funds…
- Break the Silence!
- As we engage more of our congregation in learning the history and patterns of conflict at UUCT,
- starting from its founding 75-years-ago,
- we will begin to know ourselves and our community more deeply and more wisely.
- starting from its founding 75-years-ago,
- As we engage more of our congregation in learning the history and patterns of conflict at UUCT,
- Do Conflict Differently!
- This work helps us build more personal and community capacity
- to do conflict differently.
- This work helps us build more personal and community capacity
- Make Mistakes!
- Yes, as we experiment and practice, we will learn.
- We will fail forward.
- Together.
- We will fail forward.
- Yes, as we experiment and practice, we will learn.
- Face Difficult Things!
- The challenging endings of our more recent ministries are tender and alive.
- As we build our capacity,
- we will explore, learn from, and heal these experiences.
- As we build our capacity,
- The challenging endings of our more recent ministries are tender and alive.
- Support Each Other!
- We will receive coaching and group facilitation for congregants
- who want their groups to take conflict dynamics head-on
- in restorative and transformative ways.
- who want their groups to take conflict dynamics head-on
- We will receive coaching and group facilitation for congregants
- Lead this Faith into The Future!
- We are part of developing creative, transformative pathways
- to healing from misconduct
- in Unitarian Universalist congregations!
- to healing from misconduct
- We are part of developing creative, transformative pathways
We are inviting you to…
- Invite friends or family — who know how much this congregation means to you to consider a gift.
- This is the work that makes this congregation stronger and more resilient
- for the work it has ahead.
- This is the work that makes this congregation stronger and more resilient
- Invite other UU congregations — or UU-friendly congregations or groups to consider a gift.
- People in many congregations and organizations — UU and otherwise
- have experienced unhealed conflict
- and will deeply resonate with our work.
- We are creating a new way to heal these pains.
- and will deeply resonate with our work.
- have experienced unhealed conflict
- People in many congregations and organizations — UU and otherwise
- Invite those in your life — who care about healing and accountability — to consider a gift.
- Our work at UUCT creates another set of tools
- that other congregations and organizations can experiment with
- when they face conflict, harm, and misconduct.
- that other congregations and organizations can experiment with
- Our work at UUCT creates another set of tools
The countdown begins! We have 40 days to go… will you join us?
~ With care,
- Wendy Gordon Weeks, President of UUCT Board of Trustees
- Pastor Jamili Omar, Sabbatical Leave Minister
- Rev. Dr. Samantha Wilson, Restorative Practices Facilitator