Church of the Larger Fellowship

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The Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) is a member church of the Unitarian Universalist Association providing denominational services to persons unable to attend a physical congregation because of distance or mobility. Many of these are Unitarian Universalists in other countries, members of the military, prisoners or non-mobile elderly. CLF communicates with its 3072 adult and 773 youth members through mail, e-mail, and its website. Among the members of CLF are also 180 ordained ministers who use CLF as their "own" church while serving another.

CLF was created in 1944 by the American Unitarian Association, envisioned as a "church by mail," providing all the services of an actual church. Today, the minister of the Church of the Larger Fellowship is the Rev. Jane Ranney Rzepka.