Practice | Create A Covenant
- Tanya Webster
- Feb 22
- 1 min read
[Start with your congregational or group covenant, if available. See UUCB Tips]
It is so important to review covenants on a regular basis. They are living aspirational documents. Even the congregational covenant of right relations should be reviewed at least once a year, if not more. A good way to tie the covenanting practice to UU values and beliefs is to do the yearly re-covenanting on the same day or week as the Mending service in September.
Source: Tapestry of Faith, Harvest the Power Workshop 1, by Gail Forsythe-Vail. Unitarian Universalist Association, Boston.
The Tapestry of Faith resource, Harvest the Power 2020, offers a learning activity for creating a covenant with a smaller UU group. This activity could be offered around Mending for the group to renew or make a covenant. Additionally, it may work well to offer the entire 6-week program as an Adult RE lay leadership course, starting the week after Mending.
Creating a covenant from scratch in one sitting is challenging for larger groups such as a congregation. Congregations can instead begin a discussion process on requested additions or revisions, or they might re-covenant using an existing covenant, making minor revisions as necessary.
