Hospitality and Membership

The Hospitality and Membership Committee does the following:

    1. Welcome visitors, members, and friends each Sunday morning.
    2. Follow up with first-time visitors.
    3. Contact potential new members.
    4. Offer UU membership classes and ingathering ceremonies.
    5. Recognize and help integrate new members into the life of the congregation.
    6. Keep the membership list current and accurate and share with the Board prior to annual meetings
    7. Produce a members and friends directory, updating it each year.
    8. Contact members and friends, new members, and visitors who drop away.
    9. Holds regular monthly meetings and additional meetings as needed.
    10.  Prepare Hospitality and Membership portion of UUFB Annual Report

Duties of a Team Member:

  • Attend monthly Team meetings.
  • Greet at services, learn UUFB system to relate information to new folks, engage in one-on-one conversations to learn about visitors’ and newcomers’ interests. Email and phone congregation to keep in touch.

Approximate time per month for Team Meetings:

Meetings take 1 to 1-1/2 hours per month and are held in-person and by Zoom. Duties of taking minutes and creating the agenda for meetings rotate among members. Those activities take about 2 hours in the month prior to the meeting.

We spend 20 minutes prior to, then during the first 10 minutes of each service to greet and answer questions and help people with any needs they have coming into service. We generally also pass the offering plates. We each serve at 2-4 services per month. We are responsible for locking  the front door after the service

Approximate additional time for other Teamwork or activities:

We each spend 6-8 hours on the phone each fall, calling members and friends to just keep in touch, but also to ascertain correct contact information. We turn our data over to UUFB Administrator for incorporation into the Membership Directory, which she maintains.

Want to make a big difference with just a little bit of your time? Join us as a greeter on Sunday morning!  Sign up sheet is on the kiosk in the social hall.

Pathway to Membership Information: