Unitarians break through

The flaming chalice at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango is featured on the cover of the Fall 2015 edition of UU World, which has an extensive article on how the congregation has broken through and become a larger, more sustainable organization. The fellowship, founded in 1967, called its first minister in 2014.

Courtesy of UU World/Jeremy Wade Schockley

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The flaming chalice at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango is featured on the cover of the Fall 2015 edition of UU World, which has an extensive article on how the congregation has broken through and become a larger, more sustainable organization. The fellowship, founded in 1967, called its first minister in 2014.

Courtesy of UU World/Jeremy Wade Schockley

Sometimes it takes a little time to get some momentum going.

For the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, founded in 1967, it started accelerating at the start of the new millennium.

The congregation has grown from meeting in homes to renting a room at the Smiley Building and now to its own home near Needham Elementary School. That vibrant growth led to it being named a breakthrough congregation by the Unitarian Universalist Association earlier this month.

Featured in the Fall 2015 issue of UU World, the Durango fellowship is particularly noted in the article for inviting its first minister, Katie Kandarian-Morris in 2014, just three years shy of its 50th anniversary.

Fellowship members are noted for several traits in the piece including talking about what they want, being open to change, listening to newcomers and – a big one for a group that just bought a $1 million-plus home – not being afraid to talk about money.

Visit www.uuworld.org/articles/uua-breakthrough-congregation-durango to read the article.