Welcome to the internet home of the Unitarian Universalist Society for Community Ministries, Inc.
We hope you find this site informative, convenient, and easy to use. See this "Announcements" area on the homepage for important announcements about forthcoming events and membership deadlines. To contact the current president of UUSCM please contact Deborah Holder. Please mail correspondence to Rev. Connie Yost, UUSCM Administrator, 4359 Alderbrook Avenue SE, Salem OR 97302.
What is UU Society for Community Ministries?
The Unitarian Universalist Society for Community Ministries (UUSCM) is a Unitarian Universalist movement of lay ministers & ordained clergy committed to promoting a broad spectrum of healing and social justice ministries. We believe that only through many diverse forms of ministry can we heal the broken, create justice, and live in harmony with the spirit of life. We hold a vision of a larger ministry that sees the world as its parish.
What does UUSCM do?
The UU Society for Community Ministries (UUSCM) is a national professional organization with local chapters that exists to support both lay and ordained community ministries. UUSCM has an eight member Board of Directors and three work groups that provide support, advocacy, and education about and for community ministers and their ministries.
In addition, the UUSCM holds its Annual Meeting at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly that provides opportunities for networking, support, and collegiality. The Society offers three annual community ministry awards, provides a bi-annual newsletter, membership directory, listserv and website, and mentors theological students seeking fellowship.
The leadership of the society also actively works with the UUA, the UU Minister's Association Community Ministry Focus Group and the Ministerial Fellowship Committee to address issues relevant to community ministry. Such work was the catalyst that brought into being a separate fellowship category of community ministry, sanctioned by the Ministerial Fellowship Committee for Unitarian Universalist ministers in 1991.
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Finding Information on this Site
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Read this page (below) for announcements as well as for general information about the Unitarian Universalist Society for Community Ministries.
Crossroads is the UUSCM Newsletter. To download the latest edition, click here
Click on the Membership page to join SCM or renew your membership online using PayPal.
Check out upcoming conferences and other events in the Coming Events page.
Use the Networking page to find out more about our membership, including board and member listings and chapter contact information.
Use the Archive page to locate documents and images from 2005 or earlier.
Use the Resources page to discover more about the world of possibilities in Community Ministry, including legal, financial, ritual and sermon resources you can use in your own ministry, as well as employment resources and useful internet links.
Use the Lay Ministries page to perform ministry outside of the path toward ordination.
UU Society for Community Ministries Disclaimer
What the UUSCM website is NOT: UUSCM is not a credentialing organization for its members. Nothing contained on the website is an endorsement or legal affirmation of the acts or practices of its individual members.
What the UUSCM website is: Our website is an official publication of UU Society for Community Ministries (UUSCM). The website is a primary means by which seekers learn about UUSCM. It is an important means by which congregational members, religious professionals, and leaders can educate themselves and each other.
UUSCM is established to:
1. Foster Unitarian Universalist ministries to the unempowered, the wounded, the oppressed and to the diverse concerns of age, race, class, life-style, gender identity, and planetary survival;
2. Serve as a forum for common concerns and interests of such larger ministries;
3. Conduct programs of continuing education of interest to the specialized ministries of its constituents;
4. Promote collegiality among all ministers; and
5. Offer programs of education utilizing the special perspectives of its constituents.