Excerpted from the [Florida] District Executive Message, November 2007 There is strong interest in growing our congregations and doing a better job of representing the Free Church to those seeking a genuine alternative to orthodoxy or nothing. I freely confess to being an evangelist for our faith. However, each time I address this issue, someone frets about "being like them," meaning, I suppose proselytizers of orthodoxy. To which I reply, I hope kindly, that we do not serve well those who do not know we exist. We need to show up for those seeking a spiritual home! We have a moral obligation to shine the beacon more brightly!

Here's your factoid of the month: UUA research indicates only 1 in 20 have ever heard of Unitarian Universalism, let alone having any idea who and what we are. This ignorance and our failure to grow [2nd factoid: there are fewer enrolled Unitarian Universalists today than there were at the time of the 1961 merger!] are behind the UUA's recent marketing efforts, including our Tampa Bay campaign this coming February.

April 18-20, 2008

Florida District Annual Assembly

Hosted here at UUFG!

Pictures

June 25–29, 2008

UUA General Assembly, A Meeting of Congregations

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, "Common Threads"

See UUFG member Paul Avery's GA 2007 Page, with Notes, Reports ,and more

See the current GA 2008 Page

UUFG GA 2008 Page