Worship, Learning, and Connection Await at GA 2026 - Archived

Register by April 30 for the Current GA Rate

If General Assembly 2026 is on your calendar, now is a great time to register.

The current registration rate is available through Wednesday, April 30. Registering now gives you early access to begin planning your GA experience, from featured programming and worship to the EduCenter, community gatherings, and ways to connect across the week.

Financial support discounts are also still available while funds last, helping make participation more accessible for those who need it.

Whether you’re joining online, gathering at a Satellite Site, taking part at the Studio Site in Louisville, or participating from your congregation or home, register now to ensure you’re part of a GA experience that helps us meet the moment together everywhere.

How to Share GA Sunday Morning Worship with Your Congregation

Because this is a live service, it won’t be available before the stream begins. But once it starts, your congregation can stream it from the beginning at any time after 11:00 a.m. Eastern, making it easy to fit into your local worship schedule.

After the livestream ends, the recording will remain available on YouTube, so congregations can also choose to share it later that day or revisit it afterward.

Join the worship, and bring the spirit of GA Sunday Morning Worship into your congregation wherever and whenever your community gathers.

Meet the Moment Saturday at GA

On Saturday, June 20, GA 2026 invites participants into a shared day of learning, reflection, and action through Meet the Moment programming.

Meet the Moment is a movement-wide framework that helps Unitarian Universalists make sense of the realities we are living in right now and respond in ways grounded in our shared values. It asks us to look honestly at the religious, cultural, generational, and political shifts shaping our communities, and to respond with courage, love, and a willingness to try new things.

The day begins with the Meet the Moment opening program, a shared virtual gathering for everyone participating. Together, we’ll explore how our faith has always held both grounding and transformation: staying rooted in our values while also being willing to change what no longer serves so we can respond to the needs of this moment.

From there, participants move into Wave Cohorts, smaller learning and discernment groups organized around key areas of UU life and ministry. Some are built around identity and lived experience, while others focus on themes and practices that cut across congregational life.

These groups are designed to help participants build shared analysis, learn from one another, avoid reinventing the wheel, and identify ways to act together across the UU ecosystem. Whether joining virtually or through a local gathering, participants will have space to dig deeper into the issues most connected to their interests and work.

The day closes with a Meet the Moment wrap-up session, bringing everyone back together to share insights, questions, and next steps that emerged from the Wave Cohorts.

Join the conversation, and leave with new partners, fresh insight, and practical ways to meet this moment together.

Keep Learning Before, During, and After GA in the EduCenter

Some of the best learning at GA 2026 won’t just happen in the live moments.

The GA EduCenter, available in the GA app powered by Whova, gives you ways to keep exploring ideas before GA begins, throughout the week, and for at least three months after GA ends. It’s a great complement to The weekend of worship and programming and Meet the Moment Saturday, giving you more ways to go deeper into the sessions and conversations that matter most to you.

Many of the on-demand videos will be available as soon as the app opens on May 29, so you can start exploring topics before GA officially gets underway. Then, as the week unfolds, you can use the EduCenter to go deeper into the themes coming up in worship, featured conversations, and Wave Cohorts.

If a session sparks something for you, chances are there’s an EduCenter program that helps you keep going. You’ll find practical sessions on congregational leadership, justice work, worship, youth leadership, stewardship, accessibility, climate, pastoral care, organizing, and much more.

Many programs are videos you can watch whenever it works for you, while others include live webinars where you can connect with presenters and other participants. Most of those live sessions will also be available later as recordings.

And because the EduCenter remains available for at least three months after GA, it gives you time to come back to the ideas you want to share with your congregation, leadership team, justice group, or ministry partners.

Keep exploring, and carry the tools, ideas, and momentum of GA back into your congregation over the months ahead.

Six Ways to Participate in GA 2026

There are many ways to take part in General Assembly, depending on what works best for you and your community.

1. You can join online from home and participate in live sessions as they happen.
2. You can attend a Satellite Site, where a congregation hosts a shared local experience connected to GA programming.
3. You can gather with others through a Community Gathering, whether that is a single watch party or a full weekend of shared participation.
4. You can attend in person at the Studio Site at the Galt House in Louisville, the largest in-person gathering of the Assembly and the location where worship and major GA moments are produced and shared with participants everywhere.
5. You can explore learning opportunities through live and on-demand programs in the EduCenter.
6. Or you can combine approaches, joining live events when you can and watching recordings later.

There is no single right way to attend GA. Participate in the way that fits your schedule, energy, and community.

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