Let me qualify that. It is a bit too early to tell whether people are going to resign as members because of the sale of the property. (It doesn't help matters that our longtime music director quit last week, and I don't want to say anything more about that, even under the cloak of a DW pseudonym.) If enough people want to keep the congregation going, we will go on.
At least for a while.
It is my strong opinion that the UUA, as a denomination, desperately needs to appeal to the under-40 crowd. It has to start at the top. Young people are far more interested in what TikTok influencers say than what is going on in a local building. Now if the UUA could find TikTok influencers who say, "Hey, if you want to get involved in social justice projects, here's where you can act locally," and point them to nearby congregations....
My congregation has NO members under 40 anymore. (And I was under 40 when I joined, way back when.) Last month I went to a Nationals game with a friend from my church -- we were both in the same social circle in the 1990s. He is now in his late 50s. I said to him at the game, "You're STILL one of the younger members of the congregation!"
I don't mean to dismiss the many active members of the congregation who are over, say, 65 or 70. But we won't live forever.
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Let me qualify that. It is a bit too early to tell whether people are going to resign as members because of the sale of the property. (It doesn't help matters that our longtime music director quit last week, and I don't want to say anything more about that, even under the cloak of a DW pseudonym.) If enough people want to keep the congregation going, we will go on.
At least for a while.
It is my strong opinion that the UUA, as a denomination, desperately needs to appeal to the under-40 crowd. It has to start at the top. Young people are far more interested in what TikTok influencers say than what is going on in a local building. Now if the UUA could find TikTok influencers who say, "Hey, if you want to get involved in social justice projects, here's where you can act locally," and point them to nearby congregations....
My congregation has NO members under 40 anymore. (And I was under 40 when I joined, way back when.) Last month I went to a Nationals game with a friend from my church -- we were both in the same social circle in the 1990s. He is now in his late 50s. I said to him at the game, "You're STILL one of the younger members of the congregation!"
I don't mean to dismiss the many active members of the congregation who are over, say, 65 or 70. But we won't live forever.