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During the ten years of Meg Riley’s leadership as senior minister for the Church of the Larger Fellowship, we have changed and grown in a wide variety of ways. Embracing the motto “Always in Beta!,” Meg’s innovative leadership has taken us in many exciting directions to serve the needs of Unitarian Universalists around the globe:

• The Quest for Meaning website, with significant resources available online;
• Weekly online worship services;
• Live online vigils in response to national crises;
• The VUU, a weekly online justice-centered talk show;
• Development of the CLF Learning Fellows program, which helps seminarians and others prepare for innovative ministry;
• Covenant Groups that meet in real time through video conference technology;
• Faith Rocket—a program that shares CLF worship and religious education materials in a format designed to support small congregations;
• Blogging;
• CLF Facebook groups, including Coffee Hour;
• Immediate pastoral care in response to world-wide crises;
• Growth of the Prison Ministry program from 400 in 2010 to over 1,100 in 2020;
• In-person contact with congregations throughout the US;
• Growth of the CLF staff to include a director of technology and a communications coordinator