| FRI 7:15am-7:45am |
| --Worship-- |
Planning Committee
For those who enjoy beginning each day with reflection and meditation, come join in as our chaplains lead us in a variety of spiritual practices including silence, tai chi and chanting.
| FRI 8:00am-8:30am |
| --Worship-- |
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Planning Committee
| FRI 8:30am-9:00am |
| --Intro to Plenary-- |
Planning Committee Say good-bye to confusion. Moderator Denny Davidoff and Rev. BarbaraChild, Chair of the Commission on Social Witness, with visual help from the GA Planning Committee, will guide delegates and observers through this year's plenary agenda, start to finish. You'll find out how and why everything connects from day to day and process to process.
Speakers: Rev. Barbara Child
Denise Davidoff
| FRI 9:15am-10:30am |
| --Mini-Assembly-- |
Planning Committee
This is your opportunity to influence the business sessions at GA in a smaller group than Plenary. At mini-assemblies you will learn the background of bylaw amendments and affect the wording before they get to the floor of the Assembly.
| FRI 11:00am-12:15pm |
| --Hearing-- |
Accessibilities Advisory Committee
An opportunity to talk with the Accessibilities Committee -- to hear what they are doing -- to share what your congregation is doing -- to ask questions -- to learn how you can help your congregation become more accessible to all.
| --Lecture-- |
Planning Committee Funded
There is a growing awareness in UUs that, though they are radically diverse in their stated beliefs, this diversity rests upon what President John Buehrens called "an underlying unity". What is the nature of this tacit unity? What are the hidden values, ideas, assumptions, and preferences that bring us together?
Speaker: Dr. Alexie Crane
| --Lecture-- |
Social Action Clearing House
The Rev. Barry Lynn, witty and brillant leader of Americans for the Separation of Church and State, offers insight and analysis about the State of the Union for church/state issues. Activists for Project Freedom of Religion offer organizing tips. Meg Riley will moderate.
Speaker: Barry Lynn
Meg Riley
| --Lecture-- |
UU Network on Indigenous Affairs
Land; water; nuclear waste; resources; health; education; language; cultural tribal ways; and sacred sites. The Director of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs describes relations amongst Tribes, the Governor's office, state and federal agencies which must define and provide services to the people. Is there a role for non-Indian supporters?
Speaker: Forrest S. Cuch
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UU Historical Society
Richard Henry describes the byways and booby traps encountered in writing the biography of Rev. Norbert Capek, which took a decade of research. The account includes some adventures, some serendipitous events and some unanswered questions about Capek's life. A brief UUHS annual meeting will be held.
Speaker: Rev. Richard Henry
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Friends of Religious Humanism
Is a new homiletic abroad in our movement today? Two well known widely admired masters of pulpit oratory address that question as each describes her particular preaching style and what effects it has on church growth and attendance. Khoren Arisian will preside, noting what the humanist homiletic has classically attempted.
Speaker: Rev. Judith Walker Riggs
Rev. Marilyn J. Sewell
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Association of UU Administrators
Who's minding the store while others preach and teach? Come, whether you are an administrator, secretary, minister, volunteer or just interested. Learn the basics, as well as seasoned tips on how to operate the church office from those who do it professionally. Lots of handouts. Question and answer period.
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Central Midwest District
District organizations, structures and governance impact the possibilities districts have to take advantage of when opportunities arise. We'll explore these issues in relation to three questions: 1) What are the potential benefits to member congregations? 2) How does a proposal relate to a district's mission? 3) How does it relate to growth/extension?
Speaker: Dr. Helen Bishop
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Commission on Social Witness
Advocates for each proposed Study/Action Issue present the issues and answer questions, some in this session and some in the separately listed Session II. Schedule of presentations will be announced at preceding plenary.
Speaker: Paul Vancouver
| --Workshop-- |
Cong. Dist. Ext. Services
Electronic communication has arrived in UU congregations in a BIG way. How do we use these tools effectively and in our favor? How do we manage damage control when not everything goes our way? How can we strategically plan for positive communication taking advantage of all that technology provides?
Speaker: Rev. Robbie Cranch
Deborah Weiner
| --Workshop-- |
Committee on Committees
Have you ever considered volunteer service at the continental level? Come talk with members of the UUA Board and the Nominating Committee about opportunities -- Funding Panels, Investment Committee, Commission on Social Witness, and many more. Don't say, "Why me?" say, "Why Not?"
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Cong. Dist. Ext. Services
A panel of congregational leaders share their annual canvass success stories. Many handouts will be provided.
Speaker: Wayne B. Clark
Jerry L. King
| --Workshop-- |
Continental UU Young Adult Network
This "how to organize 101" workshop focuses on starting/sustaining young adult programs in congregations. Our goal is to have Young Adult/Campus Ministry in each UU congregation, to enrich our intergenerational spiritual diversity. Young Adults, Adult Lay Leadership, RE Directors, Graduating Youth and Ministers are strongly encouraged to attend.
Speaker: Joey Lyons
Alison Miller
| --Workshop-- |
Council on Church Staff Finances
Working toward abundance instead of scarcity, generosity instead of guilt, adventuresome fundraising and accountable reporting. Healthy congregations learn to talk honestly about money and be truthful about their resources. We can too.
Speaker: Rev. Nancy Bowen
Rev. Ralph Mero
| --Workshop-- |
Faith in Action Dept, UUA
Journey Toward Wholeness is a way of being and of working for change. This workshop focuses on how congregations can develop a step by step plan for taking the anti-racism path on this journey. Information on consultation, curricula, models, resources, and training will be shared.
Speaker: Jacqui James
Rev. William Gardiner
| --Workshop-- |
Michigan District
Each Sunday morning, 100-200 people visit the UUA website looking to connect with UU communities. Find out how to build your congregation, district, or organizational visibility through presence on the world wide web. Includes detailed information on all the first steps to take.
Speaker: Jim Mason
Donald Griggs
| --Workshop-- |
Ministry Dept, UUA
This workshop is for those who are considering ministry as a vocation. Whether you are tentative or determined, this is your opportunity to ask questions, find out about the process, and meet other who are thinking about the ministry.
Speaker: Rev. Ellen Brandenburg
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee Funded
Take a hard look at issues of racism for the next generation. From local youth groups to the continental YRUU institutions, discuss ideas of how to be more conscious of prejudice and institutional power issues. Presented by the YRUU Steering Committee.
| --Workshop-- |
Pacific Southwest District
What role do social justice programs play in our congregations? Are they a central part of our mission and programs or something that the social justice committee attends to? Some of our lay and professional leaders offer a variety of thoughts and experiences and lead a discussion.
Speaker: Conny LeFerriere
Nancy Loughrey
| --Workshop-- |
Office of B/G/L/T Concerns
In response to the dismissal of the Gay/Straight Alliance student group at East High School, many religious leaders in Salt Lake began to dialogue with each other about sexual orientation. The Utah Episcopal and Catholic Bishops, a Jewish rabbi, and other local leaders reflect on this needed dialogue.
Speaker: Rev. Carolyn Irish Tanner
Rev. George Niederauer
| --Workshop-- |
IARF North America
The IARF was founded in 1900. What is it today? And what will it become in the next century? The 1999 IARF congress in Vancouver will explore these questions as it addresses the theme. Please come and help shape the IARF future.
Speaker: Rev. Robert Traer
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee
There is an order to this program! Come and get an explanation of what goes on in each plenary session, what the special GA highlights are and have help in deciding "What workshops should I go to?" Have your questions answered.
Speaker: Linda Friedman
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee Funded
Fulfilling the Promise in Religious Education is an opportunity to explore the issues, concerns, questions and resources that will influence the direction and focus of religious education in the next century. The Rev. Cynthia Breen, Director of the Department of Religious Education, will convene the panel.
Speaker: Karen Hutt
Dr. John Tolley
| --Workshop-- |
Salt Lake City Task Force
What promises do our ministers make to one another? Following the 1995 Convocation of the "transient and permanent in liberal religion", many UU Ministers Association chapters conducted wide-ranging discussions of their sense of shared obligations to one another, to our congregations, and to Unitarian Universalism and its future.
Speaker: Rev. Kenneth Gordon Hurto
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee Funded
A brief but informative overview of the new sexuality education program for grades seven through nine, including philosophy and values, content, training requirements, introducing OWL in the congregation, parent involvement, and answers to your most pressing questions. Judith is the UUA's Curriculum Development Director and Developmental Editor of this curriculum.
Speaker: Judith A. Frediani
| --Workshop-- |
Seventh Principle Project
The panelist will discuss their enviornmental efforts and experiences, be they practical, spiritual, educational, or political. Come join us, add your voice so that we can learn from each other and build a UU Enviormental Network.
Speaker: Fred Mayer
| --Workshop-- |
Uniquest
Participants will be introduced to Shinto -- the indigenious religion of Japan -- as a contemporary religion. While Shinto's roots stretch back thousands of years, it remains a force in the lives of the Japanese and is becoming known internationally. Tsubaki Grand Shrine's California branch will present the program.
Speaker: Yukihiko Tsumura
| --Workshop-- |
UU United Nations Office
A report on the results of the Hague Peace Conference, and a chance for everyone who went to begin networking.
| --Workshop-- |
UU Service Committee
Come learn about the UUSC's partnerships to advance human rights and women's rights in Mexico, Burma and Africa. View video segments and learn more about how you can support these struggles in your congregation or community.
Speaker: Linda Gray MacKay
Heather Foote
| --Workshop-- |
UU Women's Federation
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective is this year's award recipient for their three very important books: "Our Bodies Ourselves for the Next Century", a book by and for women; "The New Ourselves Growing Older", women aging with knowledge and power; and "Changing Bodies, Changing Lives", for boys and girls.
Speaker: Judy Norsigian
| --Worship-- |
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Administration, UUA
This worship service will include a prize winning sermon on the importance of sexuality education. Preacher to be announced.
| --Worship-- |
Ministerial Sisterhood UU
Come hear this year's award winner for the best sermon about a Unitarian Universalist woman or women furthering the vision of women within the UU movement.
| FRI 1:15pm-2:30pm |
| --Annual Meeting-- |
UU Artist's Network
New officers elections, new and old business. Start organizational process for the first UUAN gathering in 2000.
Speaker: Rev. Chip Wright
| --Annual Meeting-- |
Seventh Principle Project
Fred Small, enviornmental lawyer, singer-songwriter, and soon-to-be UU minister will propose a program to encourage and recognize congregations that covenant to conserve resources and protect the enviornment. The Annual Meeting of the Seventh Principle Project will follow.
Speaker: Fred Small
Katherine A. Jesch
| --Lecture-- |
Meadville/Lombard Theological School
Anti-Racism strategies assume that all "whites" are "racists". Thandeka, using insights from her new book, "Learning to be White: Money, Race and God in America", will demonstrate how this assumption tends to violate the first principle of our UU faith.
Speaker: Thandeka
| --Lecture-- |
UU Buddhist Fellowship
A 2,500-year-old male-supremacist religion meets a Western female-powered movement. Offenses are committed; both partners must deepen to accommodate. Beacon author Sandy Boucher has documented this relationship in her books and speaks about the marriage of feminism and Buddhism with humor and insight.
Speaker: Sandy Boucher
| --Workshop-- |
Administration, UUA
The President of the Association will report on how the controversy between the UUA and the Boy Scouts of America developed and what his hopes are for both that relationship and for the future of Scouting.
Speaker: Rev. John Buehrens
| --Workshop-- |
Board of Trustees, UUA
"As free congregations we enter into this covenant, promising to one another our mutual trust and support." How can we draw upon genuine motivation, not just grudging obligation, in fulfilling our covenants with each other? A repeat of last year's well-received UUA Board workshop.
| --Workshop-- |
Commission on Social Witness
Advocates for each proposed Study/Action Issue present the issues and answer questions, some in this session and some in the separately listed Session I. Schedules for presentations will be announced at preceding plenary.
Speaker: Paul Vancouver
| --Workshop-- |
Communications Dept, UUA
Want to know how to attract people to your congregation when budget's a concern? If you're willing to be creative and everyone gets involved, lots can be acheived. We'll focus on newsletters, graphics, building websites and other free or inexpensive methods of reaching prospects.
Speaker: Deborah Weiner
| --Workshop-- |
Cong. Dist. Ext. Services
This workshop provides a hands-on approach to strategic planning, including a focus on congregational vision, mission, goals and objectives. Emphasis will be placed on creating a five- year comprehensive plan within the context of program oriented budgeting.
Speaker: Wayne B. Clark
| --Workshop-- |
Cong. Dist. Ext. Services
This workshop will describe and discuss the importance of the seven "health promoters" identified in Peter Steinke's Healthy Congregations: purpose, clarity, conflict management, mood, resource focus, mature interaction and healing capacity. Participants will be invited to consider how health can be maximized in their congregational setting.
Speaker: Rev. Nancy Bowen
Rev. Howell Lind
| --Workshop-- |
Cong. Dist. Ext. Services
The Extension Ministry Program now has two phases -- growth orientation and professional ministry. New Congregation Ministry includes "rapid start" and "planter" approaches as well as the creativity of local energy. Come learn about these two programs and their approaches, differences, requirements, subsidies. For ministers and for members of congregations.
Speaker: Margaret L. Beard
| --Workshop-- |
Information Services Dept, UUA
Some practical suggestions for how to check your congregation's computer and software for possible year 2000 problems.
Speaker: Jim Austin
| --Workshop-- |
International Office, UUA
The Holdeen India Program works with about thirty partner organizations at a time in support of their effective organizing poor people, bonded laborers, dalits, women, self-employed workers. Through consulting, leadership training, capacity building, networking, and funding, this program has had great impact on some of the most vulnerable people in India.
Speaker: Katharine Sreedhar
Rev. Olivia Holmes
| --Workshop-- |
Jubilee Working Group for Anti-Racism
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the concept of creating an anti-racist "Jubilee World" in their congregation and community. Leaders provide information to help those interested to decide whether to hold this popular workshop in their congregation or district.
| --Workshop-- |
Latinos/as UU Network Association
Approaching an old problem from a different angle might bring new light into the quest for true diversity.
Speaker: Julio Noboa
Patricia Jimenez
| --Workshop-- |
Murray Grove Association
1) Talk on Kenneth Patton's philosphy for the Charles Street Universalist Meeting House by Paul Sawyer; 2) Presentation: "Growing Up with the Meeting House" -- Peter Lee Scott; 3) Question and comments from the audience.
Speaker: Rev. Peter Lee Scott
Rev. Paul Sawyer
| --Workshop-- |
Office of B/G/L/T Concerns
Thinking about becoming a Welcoming Congregation? Somewhere in the middle? Are you done and trying to figure out what next? Exploring the process of the work of Welcoming Congregation, we examine and experience the revised Welcoming Congregation handbook and the field test information on Living the Welcoming Congregation.
Speaker: Barb Greve
Paige Getty
| --Workshop-- |
Ministry Dept, UUA
The Ministerial Fellowship Committee (MFC) is the UUA credentialing body which determines who shall be admitted to Ministerial fellowship. The Rev. Dr. O. Eugene Pickett, Committee Chair, with invited guests, will address new directions, policies and issues under consideration.
Speaker: Rev. O. Eugene Pickett
| --Workshop-- |
Pacific Northwest District
The Puget Sound Council, with multiple funding sources, sponsored a three year extension ministry. The minister spent six months targeting membership assimilation and retention in each of four congregations, and organized a new congregation during the project's third year. Goals, results, insights and resources from this project will be shared.
Speaker: Rev. Lucy Hitchcock
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee
We've new ways of doing things. Come and get introduced to the Journey Toward Wholeness, Fufilling the Promise, and the Commission on Social Witness. Get an understanding of this multi-year process and learn how you can be most effective in influencing what ultimately happens. Get your many questions answered.
Speaker: Linda Friedman
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee
Each year the General Assembly Choir delights GA attendees with its choral performance. Join the choir this year and be part of the Closing Celebration! Music will be available at the first rehearsal. This year's choir conductor is Scott Ward, president of the UU Musicians Network.
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee Funded
Now that you are in Salt Lake City, you may wish to learn more about Mormon theology, culture and their transitioning to Unitarian Universalism. Three expert panelist join Rev. Tom Goldsmith of Salt Lake's First Unitarian Church. Time provided for discussion as well.
Speaker: Rev. Tom Goldsmith
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee Funded
Looking to revitalize your local youth group? Fundraising develops teamwork and community, while providing resources your group can use to continue growing. YRUUers with local youth group experience introduce a youth-empowering process for envisioning and coordinating fund-raisers, and offer some creative examples. Youth and adults welcome.
| --Workshop-- |
Religious Education Dept, UUA
What values are passed on from generation to generation in your family? in your congregation? Often life passages (from Child Dedication to Memorial Services), seasonal celebrations and congregational rituals express our UU family values. It's our responsibility to share our beliefs and values in our congregations and the wider community.
Speaker: Rev. Patricia Hoertdoerfer
Rev. Keith Kron
| --Workshop-- |
Salt Lake City Task Force
Representatives from congregations who are living out our mission to become anti-racist tell their stories. Come hear about their sucesses and the obstacles they have encountered as they have engaged in this transformational work. Share your stories too so that we can learn more on this journey together.
Speaker: Rev. Michael Carter
Susan Suchocki
| --Workshop-- |
Uniquest
Japanese lay buddist movement, Rissho Koshei-Kai presents this workshop, sharing the value of compassion and wisdom in everyday life and society. A video film illustrates Rissho Koshei-Kai's religious practices and major social actions. Meet members of Rissho Koshei-Kai in the USA.
Speaker: Rev. Yoshitaka Hatakeyama
Rev. Yukimasa Hagiwara
| --Workshop-- |
UU in the Pines, Inc.
Why are women still consistently overlooked and undervalued? Join the Women and Religion Curriculum Development Team as we begin writing a new course to examine the subtle and powerful effects of gender bias, to recognize patterns of discrimination and to practice creative and life-enhancing responses.
Speaker: Barbara Schonborn
Margaret Stewart
| --Workshop-- |
UU Process Theology Network
In what ways has Process Relational Theology and Philosophy prepared us for the birthing of the 21st Century?Where might UUs look for spiritual guideposts. What does the inclusive postmodern paradigm have to offer? Seven UU Process Theology Network members offer their voices to this timely topic.
Speaker: Marge Keip
Kay Reynolds
| --Workshop-- |
UUs Acting to Stop Violence Against Women
UUs Acting hosts PCD Community Ministry Council in a report on its development of guidelines for the affiliation of Community Ministry clergy and congregations. They serve as chaplins, educators, counselors, street ministers on issues of violence, death, enviormental and economic justice. Share our experiences in the expansion of UU ministry.
Speaker: Rev. Jody Shipley
| --Workshop-- |
UUs Against the Death Penalty
We will review each of the seven UU principles and its relationship to the death penalty issue. The work of UUADP will be described, and handouts will be provided.
Speaker: Jean Rabenold
| --Workshop-- |
UUs for Religious Freedom
This workshop deals with the current threats to constitutional liberties and democratic values; vouchers for taz support of private schools, attacks on reproductive rights, efforts to bootleg conservative religion into public schools ect. And what can be done about them.
Speaker: Edd Doerr
| --Workshop-- |
Young Adult Advisory and Outreach Task Force
Our students are those that we sent off and those who come to us from other places. Join us as we explore the many ways we can minister to our Yound Adult Students whether we are from a small congregation or a large church. Any congregations can do campus ministry.
Speaker: Donna DiSciullo
| --Workshop-- |
YRUU
The ways we exclude congregants with disabilities is the focus of this workshop. As UUs educate themselves and examine our faith communities for accessibility, both physical and social, we take the first steps to a more inclusive community.
Speaker: Emily Stainer
| --Worship-- |
Faith In Action Dept, UUA
Established to stimulate preaching concerned with the social implications of religion, the Clarence R. Skinner Sermon Award is given to the preacher of the sermon that, in the previous year, best expressed Unitarian Universalism's social principles. The sermon is delivered during a GA worship service, and the award is presented at the GA Awards Breakfast.
Speaker: Rev. Meg Riley
| --Worship-- |
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Interweave
This service will be presented by the Interweave Sermon contest winner selected each year from among all entries addressing gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender concerns in a sermon during 1998.
Speaker: Susan Gore
| FRI 3:00pm-4:45pm |
| --Plenary-- |
Planning Committee
- Chalice Lighting
- Call to Order (Denise Davidoff)
- Greetings
- Reports:
- Preliminary Credentials
- UU Service Committee
- Action on Proposed Bylaw Amendment Section 11.8 (appeal MFC Rulings)
- Reports:
- Commission on Social Witness
- Annual Program Fund
| FRI 5:00pm-6:15pm |
| --Hearing-- |
Commission on Social Witness
This hearing in "dedicated time," (without competing programs) is your only opportunity to propose amendments to the first ever UUA Statement of Conscience, initially titled "The Challenge Begins with Ourselves: Building Religious Tolerance through Interfaith Cooperation".
Speaker: Barbara Child
| FRI 7:30pm-8:15pm |
| --Worship-- |
Planning Committee
Theologians talk about the concept of original sin and we cringe. Emerson said, "There is a crack in everything God has made." We're not perfect. There's a crack in Emerson, too. How does faith survive faults = and failures? Preaching Rev. Frank Hall, Unitarian Church, Westport, CT.
Speaker: Rev. Frank Hall
| FRI 8:45pm-10:00pm |
| --Annual Meeting-- |
Lambda Ministers Guild
All lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transexual Ministers and seminarians are invited to our annual meeting and reception. Come help Lambda set its agenda for the coming year. We will serve light refreshments. Among other things, let us discuss our relationship with Interweave!
Speaker: Rev. Michael Boblett
| --Annual Meeting-- |
UU Christian Fellowship
Explore the use of Singing the Living Tradition for worship in the Christian tradition. The annual UUCF hymn sing is always a high-spirited and energetic occasion of community music-making. A brief business meeting is also conducted.
| --Annual Meeting-- |
Young Adult Caucus
Young Adult Caucus meetings provide a venue for Young Adults to discuss and, when appropriate, act on General Assembly business. "Young Adult" is loosely defined as 18-35 but, everyone is welcome. All the young adult related workshops, worships, and social activities are listed in the back of the Program.
Speaker: Rob Cavenaugh
| --Annual Meeting-- |
YRUU
We will discuss the business of GA and Youth Caucus' stance on key issues that arise in the next day's plenary session, as well as strategic planning and action on the business of YRUU. All members of Youth Caucus, delegates and non-delegates are invited.
Speaker: Chris Trace
Ben Kidder
| --Lecture-- |
UU Service Committee
UUSC has long been the standard bearer of Unitarian Universalism's commitment to ensure the human rights of every person. Come meet UUSC's new executive director, Dr. Valora Washington, as she shares her vision of the UU leadership role in shaping the quest for justice into the 21st century.
Speaker: Dr. Valora Washington
| --Performance-- |
UU Poets Cooperative
National poets association invites you to read original work or that of a UU poet you admire at this annual event. Meet other writing/publishing, get co-op information, sign up for open mic at UUPC exhibit or at the door. Round robin two poems per five minutes.
Speaker: Jennifer Bosveld
| --Lecture-- |
UUs for Justice in the Middle East
What's needed for real Palestine/Isreali Peace by a former State Department official who served in Ankara, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut. Currently, Executive Editor of the "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs", Mid-East Policy Council. Recipient: Edward R. Murrow Award by Fletcher School Law and Diplomacy; Superior Honor Award by USIA.
Speaker: Richard H. Curtiss
| --Performance-- |
Beacon Press
Come experience a lyrical weaving of poetry and memoir from the experiences, observations, and dreams of authors Sonia Sanchez and Pat Mora from the innovative multicultural literary series, Bluestreak, from Beacon Press.
Speaker: Sonia Sanchez
Pat Mora
| --Performance-- |
Planning Committee Funded
Members of the Utah Indian community present a variety of traditional dances to celebrate the nurturing of respect, understanding and self-esteem in the young, and the ancient place of song, dance and drum in our native culture. A Blanket Dance will receive pledges for "Our Brightest Hope!", the American Tribal Colleges.
Speaker: Mr. Benjamin Pease
| --Performance-- |
Planning Committee Funded
Actor Janette Moody repeats her stunning portrayal of Harriet Tubman, escaped slave and the Underground's most prominent conductor, returning to the South nineteen times taking 300 slaves to Canada. UUs are indebted for her abolition and sufferage work and to Women and Religion for bringing this performance to us.
Speaker: Janette Moody
| --Lecture-- |
UU Urban Church Coalition
Dave Jones, Senate Minority Whip for the Utah Senate, candidate for mayor of Salt Lake City, and member of 1st UU Church, Salt Lake City, will deliver the Jenkins Llyod Jones Lecture. He will discuss how a Unitarian Universalist in politics can have a positive effect of our urban regions.
Speaker: Dave Jones
| --Workshop-- |
Cong. Dist. Ext. Services
Are you planning to finance the construction, purchase, expansion, or repair of your congregational home? Come learn how to calculate the amount of debt your congregation can safely carry. We will discuss how to identify and work with local lenders and what assistance you can receive from the UUA.
Speaker: Wayne B. Clark
Ed Simmons
| --Workshop-- |
Office of B/G/L/T Concerns
The struggle for equal rights in Utah for bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people came to the front of national media around the afterschool Gay/Straight Alliance group that was evicted from East High School. We will view this hour long film chronicling this and talk with those involved, who changed Utah forever.
Speaker: Kelli Peterson
| --Workshop-- |
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Faith in Action Dept, UUA
Beacon Press author Lisa Dodson offers a radically new vision of women and girls living below the poverty line; a frontal assault on current public policies on welfare, single mothers and teen pregnancy. Dodson delves deep into the realities of their lives, with stories of commonplace courage, unimaginable strength and resourcefulness.
Speaker: Lisa Dodson
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee Funded
Debra Haffner, a Unitarian Universalist and one of America's foremost sexuality educators, presents compelling reasons to sponsor sexuality education in faith communities. Haffner is the president and CEO of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).
Speaker: Debra W. Haffner
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee Funded
Songleader Nick Page will demonstrate how sacred songs and chants from aural traditions can become powerful additions to our anthem and hymn traditions. This does not mean a "dumbing down" of our music making, but rather it means that great energy can be created in simple and humble ways.
Speaker: Nick Page
| --Workshop-- |
Salt Lake City Task Force
With clergy and lay leaders from large and new congregations, we will explore a variety of ways for congregations to help each other grow and models for building connections congregation to congregation.
Speaker: Margaret Beard
Patricia Carol
| --Workshop-- |
Society for Ministerial Relief
Religious Professionals often fail to save enough for retirement. This workshop can make it possible, if not painless. Presented by Rev. Paul Johnson, Chair Council on Church Staff Finance and Florence Einhorn, Director of Accounting at the UUA.
Speaker: Rev. Paul Johnson
Florence Einhorn
| --Workshop-- |
UU Men's Network
Creating a meaningful men's group involves making a covenant with other men to do the challenging work of growing as a man. This workshop shares information about how to make your men's program succeed. Led by David Fanning, John Clark, and Jaco ten Hove.
Speaker: Rev. Dave Fanning
| --Workshop-- |
UU United Nations Office
In a precedent first set in the Nuremburg trials, the nations of the world are working to establish a permanent international court to try grand scale human rights abuses and perpetrators of genocide. The United States, unfortunatly, has yet to sign on to this effort.
Speaker: Elaine Harvey
| --Worship-- |
IARF Canada
This worship service brings together representatives of IARF's member groups and diverse faith participants in a spirit of understanding.
Speaker: Rev. Robert Traer
| --Worship-- |
UUs for Jewish Awareness
Our annual UUJA GA Shabbos eve service features a presentation by moderator Denny Davidoff on her faith journey as a Jewish Unitarian Universalist. Join us as we celebrate our Jewish UU heritage and its special gift of Shabbos for our lives. Shabbat shalom!
Speaker: Denise Davidoff
Rev. Lesley Phillips
| --Hearing-- |
Finance Committee
Consideration of questions regarding the proposed budget for the coming year.
Speaker: Ken Carpenter
| FRI 10:00pm-12:00pm |
| --Dance-- |
Planning Committee
Grab your partner, spin your heals -- Country and Western music themes on Dance Floor #1 tonight -- with line dancing, contra dancing etc.
| --Dance-- |
Planning Committee
Dance Floor #2 features Ballroom music -- for those who love to tango, fox-trot, and waltz.
