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Growth Resources

Resources from UUA and Other Districts

• New Congregation and Growth Resources at UUA
• Lay Leadership Growth Resources
• Joseph Priestly District Growth Resources

DVDs and CDs

Video and Audio Resources for Congregational Leaders
These CDs and DVDs produced by the UUA are now available to PSD congregations from PSD for the cost of shipping and handling. They are $3.00 for the first one ordered and $.50 for each additional. There is a limit of 3 per title for each order. For more detailed descriptions and to order go to Prairie Store

DVDs

• Breakthrough Congregations 2007 includes All Souls UU Church in Kansas City, Missouri
• Breakthrough Congregations 2008
• Ideas for Growth: from the congregation Rev. Peter Morales served, Jefferson Unitarian Church
• Ideas for Worship: Spiritually Vital and Alive
• UU University 06: Leadership
• UU University 07: Leading Change in Your Congregation
• UU University 08: Ministry in the Borderlands
• Listening to Experience
• Ministry Matters: Strengthening Lay & Professional Leadership

CDs

• Drive Time Essays 1: Lay Leader Wisdom & Support
• Drive Time Essays 2: The Best of InterConnections
• Drive Time Essays 3: Small Congregations

Miscellaneous Reports

• PSD Growth Taskforce Report (PDF, 59 KB) — presented to the PSD Board, November 2003. (More about PDF files)
• Getting Ready to Grow — report by Rev. Dennis Hamilton (presented to General Assembly in 2004) examining the remarkable growth of Horizon Unitarian Universalist Church in Carrollton, Texas.
• Making Room in Our Hearts — Keynote Address by Peter Morales, Director of UUA District Services, given at the PSD Annual Conference in Kansas City, April 2004.
• UUA New Congregation Implementation Team Preliminary Strategic Map (PDF, 112 KB) — Prepared for the Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Association, April 2003.
• PSD statistics by congregation (1999–2003):
  in Excel format (49 KB)
  or PDF format (29 KB)
  (More about PDF files)
• PSD membership by congregation (2000–2008)