Multigenerational Worship: How we Found a balance and what it looks like

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22 min 48s

Many pastors say that multigenerational worship is important, yet admit that finding a healthy balance between togetherness and separateness is elusive. In this episode titled, “Multigenerational Worship: How We Found the Balance, and What It Looks Like,” Rev. Allison Palm and Sadie Kahn-Greene of the Unitarian Universality Church in Nashua, NH, share their journey of innovation and discovery to finding a format that works well for their congregation and why.

It has been a journey of trying to figure out what it is we want our Sunday mornings to look like, and what really serves our community, which is a very multigenerational one.

Multigenerational – all together all the time –  worship was the ideal I believed in for faith formation when I started my ministry here 10 years ago.

  • I don’t believe that anymore;
  • Rather, through authentic experimentation and deep listening, this is the format that does work for us…

Why a consistent rhythm of programming is important and what ours looks like;

The Wonder Box &

Switch-it-up Sundays

Rev. Allison Palm
Sadie Kahn-Greene

Rev. Allison Palm currently serves as the settled minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, NH, where she has been since 2015. She is passionate about creative worship. multigenerational community and figuring out how to make church work for 21st century life. Rev. Allison is also the co-editor of “Blessing It All: Rituals for Transition and Transformation,” (https://uuabookstore.org/products/blessing-it-all) an anthology of rituals for individuals, families, communities and congregations. 

Sadie Kahn-Greene is a credentialed Unitarian Universalist Religious Educator who has been in the field since 2003. She has served as the full-time Director of Faith Formation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua since 2017, where she is grateful to be in a collaborative shared ministry team with Rev. Allison Palm. Sadie oversees and adapts the faith formation programs for children, youth, and adults within the congregation to build connections, inspire wonder, and help put love into action

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