Union Baptist Association
UBA is a collaborative network of churches strategically advancing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Are you tired of working in isolation without:
Leadership accountability and friendship
Ministry problem-solving
Tools to help effectively engage your community
Collaboration across different perspectives
Assistance in disaster relief
Processes to prepare members to step into God’s call
No one church has the resources to fulfill the Great Commission alone. We need one another to reach the rapidly growing and diverse context.
Why We Exist:
Churches are Better Together
UBA helps churches connect, collaborate, and deepen the work they do by working together.
What We Do:
Our work is unique to the needs of our churches and community. We organize our efforts along three strategic pathways: sending, renewal & collaboration.
Collaborative Pathways
Collaborative Pathways brings churches, their staff, and their members into deeper, more meaningful, Kingdom-expanding relationships that strengthen the whole Body of Christ.
Leadership luncheons to hear from experts and meet other local leaders.
Small group cohorts for pastors, multicultural leaders, and women in ministry
Disaster relief resources
Sending Pathways
Sending Pathways works with churches of all sizes to develop and deploy their own people for a variety of Great Commission tasks. It focuses on 5 lanes of sending:
Pastors
Church Planters
Church Replanters
International Missionaries
Diaspora Missionaries
Renewal Pathways
Renewal Pathways is an initiative to promote church health in declining and dying congregations. By investing in each church and its leaders, we aim to maintain gospel light and proclamation throughout the city.
Church space sharing
Personalized church consultations
Pastor search committee training
Pastor training and cohorts
Our Churches
UBA congregations match the wide diversity of cultures, worship styles, structures, sizes, and forms represented in the Greater Houston Area.
Our Stories
Our Staff
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Josh Ellis
Executive Director
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Cris Alley
Senior Consultant
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Dana Bowdoin
Administration Manager
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Melody Brackett
Administrative Assistant
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Marie Burrus
Church Consultant & Communications
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Darrell Jackson
Chuch Consultant
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Bryant Lee
Church Consultant
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Victor Marte
Consulte Hispano / Church Consultant
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Briana Perea
Administrative Assistant
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Jose Perez
Administrative Assistant
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Lawrence Scott
Church Consultant
Events
The best way to understand UBA is to experience it yourself.
Join us for events aimed at supporting and sharpening our churches and their leaders for the task ahead.
Get in touch.
We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us on social media or send us an email here.