Strategic Planning
The strategic planning work of UMHEF is taking shape. This page is meant to serve as a virtual workspace for sharing updates, information, and collective exercises for trustees and staff throughout the important process.
What started as a series of questions is becoming a shared exploration calling us forward with clarity and holy curiosity. This summer (2026), we continue listening, testing, and attending to what is emerging in the following ways to prepare for more focused and generative work that will take place for the annual in-person meeting in September.
Thank you for the ways you are already leaning in, lending your wisdom, and offering your faithful imagination.
Engagement Exercises
This strategic planning process is also an unfolding invitation to collectively align our mission and resources more faithfully with the needs of this moment. Each conversation, insight, and question is part of the Spirit’s work among us. In order to be cognizant of how the Spirit is moving, we invite you to engage with some exercises (more to be added in the coming weeks):
