| MON 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.
| MON 8:00am-8:30am |
| --Worship-- |
Planning Committee
How do UUs animate paradise, defined by Toni Morrison as "the agitated spaces between the differences?" Our principles attain their full power to authenticate and vitalize our sacred moments only when we extend our religious community to those whose difference would otherwise keep us separate.
Speaker: Mr. A. Drake Baer
| MON 8:30am-10:30am |
| --PC Focus-- |
Planning Committee
What do we as Unitarian Universalists mean by the word "Family"? What are our UU family values? How do we best minister to families as part of our religious life? These questions will be explored by us all.
Speaker: Rev. Keith Kron
Rev. Pat Hoertdoerfer
| MON 11:00am-12:15pm |
| --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: Ben Kidder
Chris Trace
| --Hearing-- |
UU Funding Program
The UU Funding Program gives away more than $800,000 in grants each year to UU congregations, UU organizations and to social justice groups that put UU principles into action. Who gets these grants? Why? How? Come hear the answer to these questions and meet the people who give it away.
Speaker: Hillary Smith
Bill Hamilton-Holway
| --Lecture-- |
505 Paganism and Humanism: Can This Marriage be Saved?
Covenant of UU Pagans
Within the Unitarian Universalist family of theological perspectives, it is often thought that Humanism and Earth-Centered Spirituality have the least in common. The panel explores the perceptions surrounding this issue. Panelists include Rev. Kendyl Gibbons, Rev. Patrick Price, Rev. Stefan Jonasson, and Joan VanBecelaere. Phaedra Oorbeck moderator.
| --Lecture-- |
Office of B/G/L/T Concerns
Author EJ Graff speaks about marriage-- a call to action for all who care about civil rights and creating a just and equitable society. Graff will explore where we have been and where we are going on marriage.
Speaker: EJ Graff
| --Lecture-- |
Southwest District
Several SWUUC churches -- including our largest, All Souls, Tulsa -- have demonstrated that the small-group focus that fuels evangelical Christian mega-church can benefit Unitarian Universalist groups as well. Learn the what, how and why of Covenant or Meta-Church Groups from our experienced laypersons and clergy. Moderated by Bob Hill, Co DE.
Speaker: Rev. Robert L. Hill
Rev. Glenn Turner
| --Workshop-- |
Administration, UUA
Some UUs believe that we have no new UU scholars of religion. "Nonsense!" says President Buehrens. He will introduce several who are attending General Assembly and describe the work of many others who cannot be present, arguing that the breadth and depth of UU religious scholarship is greater than ever.
Speaker: Rev. John Buehrens
| --Workshop-- |
Compensation/Benefits/Pension Comm.
Ever hear, "We'd like to pay our staff better, but we just can't afford it"? A workshop for congregations wanting to raise the money to do right by their employees. No guilt, no blame. Just good tips toward bringing justice home.
Speaker: Barbara Lewis
Sue Stukey
| --Workshop-- |
Canadian Unitarian Council
Canadian congregations are reviewing their relationship with the UUA, Districts and Canadian Unitarian Council. Would changes in District and CUC responsibilities or District boundaries improve effectiveness? What about an independent Canadian movement? Members of the CUC Commission on Services, Board and Staff discuss the options and answer questions.
Speaker: John Slattery
John Hopewell
| --Workshop-- |
IARF North America
Parallel spiritual journeys found around the world: the Journeys of Unity, Devotion, Works, and Harmony deepen understanding for personal progress and the interfaith families and dialogue. Freedom, personal, social, religious, begins in covenant grounded in a planetary spiritual emergence.
Speaker: Rev. Peter Richardson
| --Workshop-- |
Development Dept, UUA
Yes, you can live comfortably, provide for loved ones, and support your favorite causes. It only takes a little planning and know how. Learn how your pension, IRA, stock, mutual fund and real estate holdings can give you, your congregation, and the UUA a strong financial future. Jokes and handouts galore!
Speaker: Marcy Bailey-Adams
| --Workshop-- |
DRUUMM
As religious professionals of color we strenghten our ministries and Unitarian Universalism by bringing the issues of our communities to the UU table. This broadens and deepens UU anti-racism to include formerly not discussible topics: US colonialism, US political prisoners and self determination for all oppressed peoples. A lively dialogue guaranteed.
Speaker: Robette Dias
Allen Perez
| --Workshop-- |
Electronic Communications Comm.
The internet is a very powerful tool for building and maintaining community. Electronic media helps you get the word out at the click of a mouse while building connection and involvement -- for almost no cost! Come learn how to share your good news!
Speaker: Kok-Heong McNaughton
Margy Levine Young
| --Workshop-- |
Finance Dept, UUA
The Association's Endowment system technology is changing. New timely and more comprehensive reporting will be the result. This is a good time to look into the advantages of investing your congregation's endowment funds with the Association. Also, socially responsible investing and matching member congregations, community development loans will be discussed.
Speaker: Jerry Gabert
| --Workshop-- |
International Office, UUA
The UUA has many friends in different parts of the world, from a small fellowship in Terra del Fuego to six million members of Rissho Koshei Kai in Japan. Come amd see the big picture and meet some of the people involved.
Speaker: Rev. Kenneth Torquil MacLean
| --Workshop-- |
Northeast District
Music is the sound of the soul. Singing is one of the simplest most universal ways of expressing divinity and building spiritual community. Why then do many people become shy and quiet when singing during worship services? How can we open ourselves up to the magic and power of singing?
Speaker: Mimi Bornstein-Doble
| --Workshop-- |
Liberal Religious Educators Association
Having experienced some "Focus on Family" programs, how do you now take this ministry with families home to your congregations? Family Matters Task Force and LREDA leaders invite you to a strategy session, sharing a congregational instrument to assess and develop family ministry. Join this mutual ministry team and Families Matter!
Speaker: Ginger Luke
Rev. Patricia Hoertdoerfer
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee
Talk to us! It's our way of learning how we can keep what works and improve what needs it. The feedback session is the Planning Committee's sponsored "Joys and Concerns". Come help us make future General Assemblies even better.
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee
Come to to Edison Elementary School and help prepare the now empty library for the books we have been purchasing all GA. Wear work clothes. Transportation will be provided. To participate, you must sign up at the Empty Shelves Project Exhibit Booth by Sunday at 6:00 p.m.
| --Workshop-- |
Rowe Camp and Conference Center
Rev. Paul Sawyer (Throop Memorial Church), Board member of UUs for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC) and Ward Morehouse, Co-Director of Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy and UUJEC member, will lead a dialogue on the supression of free expression democracy by monopolistic corporations around the world.
Speaker: Ward Morehouse
Rev. Paul Sawyer
| --Workshop-- |
Salt Lake City Task Force
In this workshop we will consider how we sustain our covenant and health on the congregational level. What spirit do we bring to our deliberations? How do we address conflict? How do we celebrate?
Speaker: Rev. Carolyn S. Owen-Towle
| --Workshop-- |
UU United Nations Office
This session will emphasize what UU Congregations can do to support the United Nations as an expression of the Sixth Principle of Unitarian Universalism. Speakers include Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and Former US Ambassador to South Africa.
Speaker: Edward J. Perkins
Philip Rutledge
| --Workshop-- |
UU Service Committee
Unitarian Universalists can have an impact on their state legislatures. UUSC's child advocacy network in Massachusetts has organized over 1,000 volunteers to successfully fight for child care and the rights of the poor. In the process, UUSC's Becky Richardson has built bridges across class, religious, and racial lines.
Speaker: Rebekah Richardson
| --Workshop-- |
UU Urban Ministry
Co-sponsored by UUs for a Just Economic Community, Rev. Campbell explores our valuing of human worth and dignity in the present welfare reform climate with attention to overcoming circumstances of dependency. The speaker is Community Outreach Coordinator for Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and Pastoral Associate, Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles.
Speaker: Rev. Williams Monroe Campbell
| --Workshop-- |
UUs for Juvenile Justice
Over 300 victim/offender mediation programs exists across the United States. Take a look at juvenile justice through a different "lens" one that offers unique opportunities for crime vicitms, offenders, and the entire community.
Speaker: Jane Riese
| MON 1:15pm-2:30pm |
| --Annual Meeting-- |
Continental UU Young Adult Network
The Young Adult movement is developing new district and continential structures for leadership and community. Come participate in this open meeting on the future of CUUYAN and proposed ideas. Young Adult/Campus Ministry/ConCentric is the new annual Leadership and Networking Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Speaker: David Levine
Joey Lyons
| --Annual Meeting-- |
UU Urban Church Coalition
Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Unitarian Universalist Urban Church Coalition and help us plan for the future.
| --Hearing-- |
Faith In Action Dept, UUA
After the vote on next year's Study/Action Issue, the Faith in Action Department will conduct a workshop on how to carry out the study and action process. We will also provide a preliminary packet to assist congregations wishing to begin the proccess immediately.
Speaker: Rev. William Gardiner
Jacqui James
| --Lecture-- |
UUs for Jewish Awareness
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, the second woman ordained a Rabbi, and author of numerous best selling religious books for children, explores the Midrash tradition -- the classical Jewish tool for dialoguing with sacred texts -- as a modern means of connecting with stories of our ancestors, particularly the lost voices of women from the sacred tradition.
Speaker: Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
| --Workshop-- |
Communications Dept, UUA
When tragedy struck in Laramie, WY, the UU Fellowship of Laramie responded using the power of the media to provide hope and support while leading efforts to express outrage and educate the public. The minister of the Laramie Fellowship joins us to discuss this and other models for effective communication.
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Mead Johnson
Deborah Weiner
| --Workshop-- |
533 Giving and Generosity in Our Large Congregations
Development Dept, UUA
Representatives from three congregations with 350 or more members will discuss how they moved from a "cultural of scarcity" to a "culture of abundance." They focus on the primary factors which led to this transformation as well as share their varying approaches to fundraising.
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee
| --Workshop-- |
Journey Towards Wholeness Transformation Committee
This interactive workshop will demonstrate th collaborative efforts of diverse groups -- JWG, LUUNA, AAUUM, DRUMM, UUNIA, JTWTC, Interweave, etc. -- who have been instrumental to and connected in an historical and interrelated fashion. Share your story in the journey as we build a time line of intitutional anti-oppression, anti-racism work.
Speaker: Rev. Susan Suchocki
Rev. Nannene Gowdy
| --Workshop-- |
Mountain Desert District/Foothills Unit. Church
Explore ways that churches and youth groups can augment youth programming, encourage youth involvement in all facets of church life, support and encourage youth advisors, and avoid ageism. We'll focus on ways of growing and structuring existing youth groups. Anyone interested in youth programming is invited to attend.
| --Workshop-- |
Office of Information
The UUA's Director of Information/Archivist will present information on and discuss strategies for preserving church archives and writing church histories.
Speaker: John Hurley
| --Workshop-- |
Planning Committee Funded
"Is that a man or a woman?" "I was talking about Uncle Jack and Uncle Steve and was called a "fag"". How do you talk to kids about bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender issues? What is appropriate for kids to hear and whose problems are these? Kids look to adults for clues.
| --Workshop-- |
Salt Lake City Task Force
A workshop on lateral relations among congregations working to end racism in the UUA and in the wider communities we inhabit and influence. Speakers will represent congregations in the Michigan, Mass Bay and Metro New York Districts.
Speaker: Kay Aler-Maida
| --Workshop-- |
UU Partner Church Council
Another in the PPC's "How to" series. Listen to and talk with representatives of churches which have created and sustained innovative projects and programs with their partners. Your church or cluster of churches will be both inspired and instructed in how possibilities were developed into present realities.
| --Workshop-- |
UU Women's Federation
Where have we come from? Where are we now? Where are we going? From our roots in the feminist awakening to the present and on to the possibilities for future developments, the panel leads us on an exploration of the evolving, ever growing spiritual path of feminist idealogy.
| --Workshop-- |
Volunteer Committee
Empty Bowls is an international project raising hunger awareness and money to feed the hungry locally. Workshop demonstrations three easy ways to make clay bowls and helpful tips for staging successful events. Empty Bowls events at GA 97 and GA 98 each raised about $20,000. Bring this activity to your church.
Speaker: Helen Helwig
Carol Glass
| --Worship-- |
UU Women's Heritage Society
Annual worship service celebrates Universalist and Unitarian women of the West: Mary Austin Holley (Texas), Eleanor Silver Keeping (Alberta), Mary Carr Moore (Washington), Georgiana Bruce Kirby, Sarah Pratt Carr, Caroline Severance, Lydia Knapp Horton, Athalia Irwin (California) and more. Copies of service available for sale to use with your congregation.
Speaker: Dorothy Emerson
| --Worship-- |
Planning Committee Funded
This event welcomes junior high youth into the continental YRUU community. All are welcome to share in celebrating this critical life transition. We introduce 12-14 year olds to the magic of YRUU in a ceremony that celebrates these youth, who are the future of our YRUU movement.
| MON 3:00pm-6:30pm |
| --Plenary-- |
Planning Committee
- Chalice Lighting
- Call to Order
- Moderator's Report (Denise Davidoff)
- Action on Actions of Immediate Witness
- Reports:
- Commission on Appraisal
- UU United Nations Office
- UU Women's Federation
- Action on Reports of Officers and Others
- Action on Perfecting Amendments
- Delegates Feedback from Open Microphones
- Adjourn
| MON 8:00pm-9:30pm |
| --Performance-- |
546 GA Closing Celebration
Planning Committee
The closing celebration will feature the General Assembly Choir, conducted by Scott Ward, well-known UU song-leader Nick Page, the induction of new officers and committee members, an acknowledgement of retiring officers and committee members and a change for year three of the Fulfilling the Promise recovenanting process.
| MON 10:00pm-12:00pm |
| --Dance-- |
Planning Committee
We end General Assembly with group dancing on Dance Floor # I featuring old favorites like the hokey pokey, bunny hop, watusi, hootchey-kootchy and square dancing.
| --Dance-- |
Planning Committee
Latin night: Great dance music! Our DJ will spin salsa, cumbia, merengue, and much more, as well as American tunes you will recognize. Wear comfortable shoes!
