Are you a Grover waiting to happen?

A special thanks to our current team of Grovers!

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County, PA – Zane Szurgot

Buxmont Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, PA – Howard Bennett

Unitarian Universalist Church in Cherry Hill, NJ – Greg Newcomer

Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County, PA – Mary Clinton
Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community, Groveville, NJ – Elly Leonard
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County, NJ – Lisa Arcoleo
Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, Morristown, NJ – Gabor Kiss, Todd van Gordon
Unitarian Universalist Ocean County Congregation – Gail Mershon
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades, Englewood, NJ – Leyn Burrows, Steve Savitz
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration, Philadelphia, PA – Linda Pollack-Johnson
Unitarian Universalist Church of Princeton, NJ – Alice Deanin

Skylands Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Hackettstown, NJ – Linda Bonk
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Somerset Hills, NJ – Doug Ford
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore, NJ – Karen York
The First Universalist Church of Southold - UU – Shannon Rene

Unitarian Church of Staten Island, NY – Vivian Vasser
Unitarian Church in Summit, NJ – Barbara Heisler Williams
All Souls Church, Unitarian, Washington, DC – Jon Fetter
Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing, Titusville, NJ – Ruth Hendry

Grovers Program

Nature

The Grovers Program involves members of Unitarian Universalist congregations who act as
liaisons between Murray Grove and their congregations, and are vital contributors to Murray Grove’s
activities and programs and to the long-term fulfillment of the Murray Grove Association’s Ends.

Purpose

Grovers:

• keep members of their congregations informed of events and developments at Murray Grove
• encourage their congregations and their subgroups to consider coming on retreat at Murray Grove
• volunteer their time at Murray Grove in any of a wide variety of possible activities
• possibly participate actively in some or all of the discussion about, planning for and realization of
  the Ends of the Murray Grove Association
• keep Murray Grove informed of people in their congregations and beyond who might be interested in participating in the fulfillment of the Murray Grove Association’s Ends
• get their congregations and communities involved in the ongoing devolution of Murray Grove’s Ends.
  

Workings of the Program

Close regular contact is maintained between each Grover and the Murray Grover's liaison to staff.

The Grovers are:

• supplied with up-to-date information about Murray Grove events and activities
• requested to set up permanent exclusive Murray Grove display space at their congregations’
  Sunday worship where members can come to expect posters, displays, information about Murray Grove
  and its events and activities
• requested to establish and cultivate informal and/or formal contacts with any and all of the various committees, sub-groups and interest groups in their congregations, and the congregation as a whole, encouraging them to consider regular retreats as an integral part of the spiritual and social activist lives of their communities
  

Guided in:

• finding ways to keep their congregations and communities abreast of developments at Murray Grove, especially those involving helping to achieve the Murray Grove Association’s Ends
• finding and cultivating individuals and/or groups in their congregations and communities who might be interested in joining in one or more of the many aspects of meeting those Ends
• encouraged to consider volunteering at Murray Grove, including work possible weekends and individually helping out with the staffing requirements at Murray Grove
  
  If you or someone in your congregation is interested in the program, please contact us by email
  by clicking the envelope and we’ll take it from there!