Friends, all seats are now open for our 3/25 UU Growth Lab live session. Do you know someone who would appreciate this session? Consider sharing these details with them.
Deepening Newcomer Engagement and Membership
Trainer/Facilitator: Peter Bowden Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Duration: 120 minutes • You may attend full or half session
In this session we'll explore strategies for helping newcomers move out of the “visitor zone” and into deeper participation and membership. We’ll also discuss promoting stewardship through community building, meaningful conversation, and collaboration. Note that congregations often fail to delivered on connection, meaning, and belonging before asking people to pledge. We'll discuss as this issue keeps coming up in my membership development conversations.
Happy July, UU Growth Lab friends!
This month our live session via Zoom and on-demand training are on the massive need for more volunteers across our congregations.
Full details and session registration below.
We have so many leaders that are carrying too much. I think this session will help. From online hospitality videos and social media to membership development and volunteerism, he...
UU Growth Lab friends,
This is Peter Bowden with our latest on-demand member training "Turn Your Congregration's YouTube Channel Into an Online Welcome Center" is now available in our member area. The focus is using your YouTube channel to help people researching your congregation say YES! to a live visit.
Below these access links, you'll find questions you may use to assess your congregati...
UU Growth Lab friends,
The replay of our June 9, 2026, live session Turn Your Congregation's YouTube Channel into a Visitor Welcome Center is now available in our member area with a limited-time guest replay. I'll share details on July's session shortly. That's about volunteer culture. Anyone looking for more volunteers? I thought so! 😉
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