We have an ever-increasing number of Facebook folks, posting all kinds of stuff in the CUA Facebook group: worship service videos, Zoom meeting invitations, sermon videos, etc., in addition to the more common articles and blog posts from their respective ministries. For those wishing to continue posting from their congregations & ministries, it’s time to formally affiliate with the CUA. We are not a “denomination;” instead, we are an association of churches, along with individuals, and other ministries who teach the overwhelming historical and scriptural evidence that all are reconciled to God as revealed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
As part of the big-umbrella Association, you get services that a single ministry or congregation cannot do alone:
- Official recognition for congregations and ministries
- Ordination as Clergy, for both chaplains and congregational ministers
- Chaplain Endorsement for healthcare or government employment
- Conventions, conferences, regional gatherings, and online conversations
- Ministerial Education by correspondence (as an alternative to seminary)
- Search assistance for hiring a pastor or chaplain
- Resources to support, understand, and spread the message of universal reconciliation–that the restorative love and peacemaking ethics of Jesus frees people to love one another rather than struggling under the burden of religiosity
- Resources and support, to understand and spread the practice of working toward restorative solutions and responses to conflict and social problems
Anything Else?
Yes!!! Members have the opportunity to write for CUA publications; like our website and newsletter. Affiliated congregations & ministries also benefit from promotion and publicity that’s unavailable to non-members. As an integral part of the CUA, you’ll have a larger ministry footprint, the kind that is only possible in cooperation: You will be part of Christian Universalist ministerial education, ordination of clergy into both congregational ministry and chaplaincy, formal endorsement of chaplains, the translation and preservation of historically important Christian Universalist writings, and so much more!
All affiliates retain complete autonomy, but become part of a larger family of like-minded believers. We are all here to help one another, as we rejoice in the truly Good News!
Here is where you become part of the larger family of CU congregations & ministries.