Districts and Regions of the Unitarian Universalist Association

UUA Regions and Districts

There are sixteen Districts and one Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) in North America. The mission of the UUA Districts and Regions is to serve as the primary local resource for congregations and to help extend Unitarian Universalist influence in the larger community.  They are the local presence of the UUA.

Each of the 16 Districts is also part of a Region. Each Region has a Regional Lead and a wide variety of both Deep Generalists and Specialists available to provide both Spiritual and Practical Leadership within their Region/District.  These include but are not limited to consultations on a wide variety of congregational issues such as long-range planning and organizational development, ministerial transitions, leadership training, and conflict management.

The directory page for each Region/District provides those local resource contacts. This is a list of each District and Region.

• MidAmerica Region
  The MidAmerica Region includes 194 congregations in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, all but the lower southwest corner of Missouri, Kentucky, Michigan, western Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
• MidAmerica comprises the former districts of Central MidWest, Heartland, and Prairie Star.
   
• The MidAmerica Regional Lead is Rev. Ian Evison, ievison @ uua.org.
   
• Ballou-Channing (BC)
  Covers southeast Massachusetts (excluding the greater Boston area), Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket Island, and Rhode Island.
   
• Clara Barton (CB)
  Geographically includes central and western Massachusetts and all but the far southwest corner of Connecticut.
   
• Florida (FL)
  Includes the state of Florida (excluding the panhandle), Valdosta (a single south-central Georgia congregation), and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
   
• Joseph Priestley (JP)
  Includes the District of Columbia and five states: southern New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, central and eastern Pennsylvania, and northern Virginia.
   
• Massachusetts Bay (MB)
  Includes the eastern portion of Massachusetts.
   
• Metro New York (MNY)
  Includes congregations in four states: New York, from the tip of Long Island northward to Kingston and Poughkeepsie; New Jersey, from Tom's River north to the New York line; southwest Connecticut; and Pennsylvania.
   
• Mid-South (MS)
  Serves all the UU congregations in Alabama and Mississippi, three in the panhandle of Florida, three in middle Tennessee and the congregations in metropolitan Atlanta and north and central Georgia.
   
• Mountain Desert (MD)
  Spans eight states: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico with congregations in eastern Idaho, west Texas and western Nebraska.
   
• Northern New England (NNE)
  Serves congregations in the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
   
• Ohio Meadville (OM)
  Serves congregations in Ohio, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and western New York.
   
• Pacific Central (PC)
  Extends from northern Nevada to Hawaii; from the northern California border down to California's Central Valley.
   
• Pacific Northwest (PNW)
  Serves Alaska, western Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
   
• Pacific Southwest (PSW)
  Serves Arizona, southern California, and southern Nevada.
   
• Southeast (SE)
  Includes North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia.
   
• Southwest (SW)
  Includes most of Texas (excluding the El Paso area); all of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana; Memphis, TN; Springfield, MO; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and several emerging congregations in Mexico.
   
• St. Lawrence (STL)
  Made up of congregations in New York state and one in Pennsylvania.

Regions and Regional Leads

• Central East Regional Group (Rev. Joan Van Becelaere, jvanbecelaere @ uua.org)
   
• Southern Region (Rev. Kenn Hurto, khurto @ uua.org)
   
• Pacific Western Region (Rev. Nancy Bowen, nbowen @ uua.org)
   
• New England Region (Rev. Sue Phillips, sphillips @ uua.org)

Our constant mission is: how do we serve our congregations in the best ways? How do we advance the work of congregations? How do we best continue in partnership with local congregations? In order to have a range of people and a range of skills to best serve our congregations we are moving toward a shared staff team model with a Lead in each Region (The Rev. Dr. Terasa Cooley)