How Congregations Can Support the CLF

Welcome to the CLF!

We’re so glad your congregation wants to support the Church of the Larger Fellowship — a global Unitarian Universalist community without walls. The CLF community comes from every walk of life and from more than 49 countries, united by a shared commitment to love, justice, and spiritual growth. Together, we create a faith community that celebrates diversity, honors many paths to truth, and offers connection wherever you are in the world. Your support helps sustain this vibrant ministry of care, courage, and compassion.

Ways to Engage with the CLF

Financial Support

The Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) is your partner in extending Unitarian Universalism beyond walls and borders. Congregations can connect with the CLF through shared worship, collaborative learning, and justice-centered ministries that deepen faith and expand care. Together, we live into our shared values of love, inclusion, and spiritual growth — creating a global network of UU connection and support.

Share your plate

When your congregation shares its plate with the CLF, you help sustain a lifeline of spiritual care that reaches far beyond any single sanctuary. 

Donate

Your generosity supports worship, learning, and the Worthy Now Prison Ministry — ensuring that no one seeking Unitarian Universalist connection is ever turned away. 

Volunteer with the Worthy Now Prison Ministry

The Worthy Now Prison Ministry connects Unitarian Universalists across walls and through bars, offering spiritual care, education, and community to UUs currently experiencing incarceration. Your congregation can help by writing letters, hosting a holiday card event, or fundraising to sustain this life-changing work. Together, we affirm that every person is worthy now.

Become a Pen Pal

One of the cornerstones of our Worthy Now Prison Ministry is the Pen Pal program, in which incarcerated UUs are matched with free-world pen pals. This program builds relationships, transforms lives, and helps overcome isolation. Sadly, we always have a waiting list of incarcerated members whose pen pals have not yet signed up. Might one be you?

Become a State Ally

Our State Allies invest more time and energy in helping us keep our addresses current. Prison systems often move folks with no notice or forwarding address. Keeping on top of these moves ensures we can provide uninterrupted ministry to our incarcerated beloved.

Support Abolition, Transformation, and Faith Formation CSAI

The CLF is proud to sponsor the Abolition, Transformation, and Faith Formation Congregational Study Action Issue (CSAI) — this is an invitation to reimagine and study how our faith calls us toward liberation and collective care. This CSAI explores what it means to build communities grounded in love rather than punishment, transformation rather than isolation, and faith that fuels justice.

By engaging with this work, your congregation joins others across the UUA in creating a shared spiritual foundation for abolitionist practice and transformative justice. Together, we are living into Unitarian Universalism’s deepest values.

chalice drawing by incarcerated UU member Michael W
Chalice drawing by incarcerated UU member Michael W

Learn more about the CSAI

Sharing this journey helps sustain the work of deep learning, conversation, and collective action. Explore resources, discussion guides, and upcoming opportunities to connect your congregation with this faith-forming effort.

Worship Services for your congregation

The CLF offers worship services your congregation can use to enrich your own worship or faith development. Whether you’re highlighting justice work, exploring Unitarian Universalist theology, or centering the Worthy Now Prison Ministry, our recorded and ready-to-use worship services help bring new voices and inspiration to your community.