She gets experience with both size churches. The congregations also have an informal agreement on holiday services. Westwood holds the annual winter solstice service and Edmonton hosts the Christmas Eve service. They also jointly pay for advertising. For an election this spring, the congregations are co-sponsoring candidate forums.
Cooperation takes work.
Hardies, with the California Proposition 22 campaign, at first decided not to try to bring congregations together because it seemed too difficult but finally decided it was worth it. He had to overcome skepticism about whether enough money could be raised but was also impressed by how fast some congregations got on board. Youth programs are a common area of cooperation, enabling congregations with few youth to attain enough mass for quality programming. In Sacramento, California, the UU Community Church and the UU Society are offering Our Whole Lives, the UUA's sexuality education programs, to their combined junior high groups. The combined group permits a better program than either congregation could have individually.