UUA Board of Trustees - Mission, Vision, and Ministry. General Assembly. UU Talk Radio Online Radio by UU Talk Radio. CERG Staff Blog. A few years ago, the state of Delaware hired a marketing firm to come up with a new motto to represent their territory. What they came up with was “It’s good to be small.” Now, if I had paid a firm what was probably a lot of money and that’s what they came up, I would ask for my money back. But if we want to apply this motto to the small congregations in our faith, I think it would work well. Goodness knows, there are certainly a lot of them. In the Winter 2010 issue of The World, we were informed that there are more congregations in the UUA with fewer than 100 members (534 to be exact) than there are with more then 100 members (510).
So size does matter…and one can see how easy it is for UUs in small congregations to get a complex about all this. So it is important to emphasize the advantages and the blessings of small congregations, what one might call “the bigness of smallness.” I believe that a strong and vital small congregation is one that emphasizes quality over quantity. 1. 2. UUA Bookstore. Shelby's Test Blog.