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Rachael Brown
Lifespan Faith Development, UUA
Boston, MA
De Benneville Pines – Angelus Oaks, CA
UU Family Camp – July 31-August 6, 2005
Join UU families in the beautiful San Bernardino national forest for a
week of fun. Camp de Benneville Pines’ annual Family Camp will be
held Sunday, July 31, through Saturday, August 6, 2005. Rev. Dr. Jeremy
Taylor is the theme speaker and his subject is dream work. Worship together,
reaffirming our UU values. There are lots of potential new friends as
well as families that return year after year. The cabins are comfortable
and the food is great.
Contact: Caroline Quintanilla at uucamper@earthlink.net
and 909-794-2928, or see the website at www.refamilycamp.org
for more information.
Ferry Beach Park Association – Saco, ME
Religious Education Week – July 24-30, 2005
One of the most important things any religious community does is transmit
their tradition to the next generation. Through worship, through religious
education, and through our lived faith, we tell who we are, what we value,
and how we come together as a community of shared religious heritage and
values. Religious educators have long valued the use of stories in helping
to facilitate religious exploration for our children and youth. This conference
will affirm that usage but shift the focus toward how we pass our heritage
on to our young people that they might head out from our congregations
fully belonging to our larger religious community and guided by our principles
and purposes.
Come and join returning coordinators Wendy von Zirpolo, Jane Gabrielson,
and Mindy Whisenhunt; music director Laurie Loosigian; and a spectacular
programming staff. We are excited to announce the return of Rev. Rosemary
Bray McNatt as minister of the week. Rosemary serves as minister of Fourth
Church in New York and serves as a member of the UUA’s Trauma Response
Team. She is looking forward to her return and excited about unpacking
how we worship through stories.
Back again this year will be the multi-age children’s program,
early morning polar bear dips, an ice cream social, a parade and talent
show, afternoon conversations, evening fun, glitter toes, and a whole
lot more!
New this year:
- Two renaissance modules –UU History and Philosophy
- Week-long drumming
- Theology on the porch with Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt
- Story telling workshops with Mindy Whisenhunt
- An invitation for college-age youth (18-24) who are not enrolled
in our Senior Youth Program to attend at a reduced rate in the “Grove
Campus.” An area of the Grove will be set aside for the campus
and welcome your tents. There will be a reduced fee that includes registration,
site fees, and meals.
As always, RE Week celebrates intergenerational community and the myriad
of possibilities it offers! Please do join us as we put our faith into
action – the very best way to tell our wonderful story!!!!
Family Matters! Weekend – August 26-28, 2005
Family Matters is a weekend conference for all families. During this action-packed
weekend, Ferry Beachers will be the first to experience workshops created
by the UUA Family Matters Task Force. Unitarian Universalists celebrate
many kinds of families and we invite you to come and experience this unique
weekend program with your family. We extend a special invitation to B/G/L/T
families, families of color, multicultural/multiracial families, trans-racial
adoptive families, and interfaith families. In intergenerational small
groups we will explore our multiple identities – individual, family,
cultural, and faith identities. We will create expressions of family,
play the Game of Family Life, and celebrate family stories as faith stories.
Leaders: Rev. Hope Johnson, DRUUMM family coordinator and parish
minister of the UU Congregation of Central Nassau in Garden City, New
York, and Rev. Keith Kron, co-chair of the UUA Family Matters Task Force
and Director of the UUA Office of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender
Concerns.
Conference Coordinator: Rev. Pat Hoertdoerfer, Director of UUA
Children, Family, and Intergenerational Programs.
Family Arts Week – August 28-September 2
This new conference will be a rare opportunity for families of all configurations
to explore the visual arts. This is a time for Ferry Beachers to enjoy
creating art together as families. Come to this intergenerational week
with your children, grandchildren, and nephews and nieces and immerse
yourself in photography, ceramics, or sketching and painting.
Award-winning photographers Harriet Sutherland and Dick Welch will return
to Ferry Beach with their popular photography workshop. Their workshop
includes instruction on both film cameras or digital cameras. Dick and
Harriet will lead the whole group on field trips to Biddeford Pool, early
morning at the Portland Head Light, Camp Ellis at dusk, and of course,
our own Ferry Beach sunrises. Children ten years and older, accompanied
by adult family members or adult friends, are welcome to register for
this workshop.
Anne Mann, veteran Ferry Beach conference coordinator and staffer, will
lead “family artists” in a ceramics workshop for all ages.
Anne has been working with clay – making ceramic jewelry and pottery
– for many years. Now she will bring her passion for ceramics and
her expertise to Ferry Beach for our week of creativity. The new Ferry
Beach kiln will be installed and ready for Family Arts creations.
The third Family Arts workshop will be sketching and painting. Families
attending this workshop will meet in Ferry Beach’s well-stocked
art room to learn the basics of sketching and painting. Then they will
head outdoors to practice, create, and enjoy the artist process.
Extensive artistic talent is not a requirement for this conference. If
you have ever wanted to find your artistic muse in a family setting, this
is your chance. In keeping with the spirit of the conference, all children
participating in the art workshops should be accompanied by an adult family
member or an adult friend. For families with younger children up to age
six, Ferry Beach’s Children’s Program will be in full swing.
Fayre Stephenson, Program Director at ferrybeach@ferrybeach.org
Family Eco-Living Camp July – 2-8, 2005
Come to the first annual Family Eco-Living Camp. Together we will learn
how to live lightly on the earth, how to calculate our ecological footprint,
how to learn from nature, and how to bring our financial life into alignment
with our values of peace, sustainability, and respect for the earth and
all her resources. There will be activities for all ages with a focus
on an environmentally sound family life. We will learn how to reduce our
impact through practical and easy solutions to energy needs, transportation,
education for our kids, housing, and the never ending battle with stuff.
Contact: Craig Lentz at fbcraig@maine.rr.com
207-282-4489, www.ferrybeach.org
Lake Geneva Summer Assembly – July 3-9, 2005
For over sixty years, Unitarian Universalists have been gathering at Lake
Geneva Summer Assembly (LGSAUU) on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. Over six
hundred UUs come from all over the country and beyond to share a week
of spiritual renewal and celebration. Housed on the beautiful grounds
of Aurora University-Lake Geneva Campus, UUs of all ages enjoy a week
of community, stimulating talks, workshops, music, crafts, swimming, hiking,
sun, and more!
Contact: To request a brochure that has a registration form, as
well as complete instructions please contact LSGA at lgsa@uua.org,
262-245-5531, www.lgsa.org/themes.html
The Mountain Retreat & Learning Centers, Inc.
Fun Family Fourth – July 1-3, 2005
Calling all parents, grandparents, and kids! Come to The Mountain in Highlands,
North Carolina, for this popular mid-summer break. We’ll have a
weekend that will allow all of you have some old fashioned fun together.
It’s a great opportunity for elementary and beginning camp parents
to bring the children up early – and have a “camp preview”
family-style! It's also a great way to introduce soon-to-be-campers to
The Mountain. Enjoy the cool temperatures while you experience outdoor
adventures together including the archery course, lake, nature hikes...and
who knows what else! Space is limited, so register soon.
Register on-line at www.mountaincenters.org/fam_pgms.html
Family Mini Camp – July 15-17, 2005
“We can't afford to take week days for Family Camp – how about
having a couple of weekends just for families to have quality time together?"
You asked for it – we responded! Please come for a mini camp for
all ages – with lots of fun for everyone. Just as elementary camper
parents could bring the whole family early before camp starts, you can
also come for the weekend AFTER camp – when it’s so hard to
get the kids to leave. But whether you’re picking up your child
from camp or you’d just like a mid-summer “mini vacation”
this is a great weekend for you! And bring along grandma and grandpa –
or let them experience the weekend with the kiddies themselves.
Contact: info@mountaincenters.org,
828-526-5838, www.mountaincenters.org
Murray Grove – Open all year
Just have a good time – in a spiritual environment – availing
yourself of all the recreational opportunities offered by Murray Grove
in Lanoka, New Jersey, and the lovely New Jersey shore nearby. Vacationers
may also prefer to try out some of the many fine area restaurants. Here
individuals, families, congregations, and communities can find personal
and spiritual renewal.
Contact: Ellen Chulak at murraygrove@earthlink.net,
609-693-5558, www.murraygrove.org
Sophia Fahs UU RE Camp –August 15-21, 2005
Sophia Fahs UU Religious Education Camp, sponsored by the LI Area Council,
will be held August 18 (Sunday) to August 24 (Saturday) at Camp Quinnipet
on Shelter Island, New York. Begun in 1981, the camp is designed to provide
inter-active and fun-filled experiences reinforcing our UU principles
and appreciation of our liberal religious faith. We live as a community
of 100 campers, grades 3-12, with 25 adults in separate houses situated
on the shoreline of Jennings Point jutting into Shelter Island Sound.
Our applications for campers and staff on online at www.liacuu.org/
Star Island – Portsmouth, NH
All Star I – July 2-9, 2005
Come and enjoy our multigenerational family conference. Our speaker Ed
Hardy, UU Minister from Chatham, Massachusetts, will share thoughts about
his practice of Buddhism. Children have their own program with many activities.
All Star II – July 9-16, 2005
Theme speaker Dr. Lisa L. Lahey will discuss “Effective Communication
Enhancement for Partnering and Parenting.” This conference is an
affirming, intergenerational community with a superlative children’s
program.
Religious Education Conference July 16-23, 2005
Theme speaker Richard Gilbert, renowned UU minister and writer, will share
tools for creating authentic community that can transform individuals,
congregations, and religious education programs. Experience community
in workshops and special events with professionals and volunteers. Families
welcome to participate.
For over one hundred years, summer meetings on Star Island have been
a source of spiritual and physical renewal. Star is one of the rocky,
wind-swept Isles of Shoals, located off the coast of Portsmouth, NH. Most
visitors to Star Island attend one of the week-long summer conferences,
which offers a warm sense of community and invigorating programs for families,
youth, and adults. Year after year, Shoalers affirm, “We will come
back!”
Contact: Star Island Corp. at office@starislaand.org,
606-430-6272, www.starisland.org
Unicamp – Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA
Family camp is the first two weeks of August this year. Unicamp is a beautiful
wooded summer. Located on fifty acres of Niagara Escarpment (an undesignated
biospheric area), right on the Bruce Hiking Trail. We have a spring-fed
swimming pond with sandy beaches. Come for stimulating programs or just
R&R.
Book for any period of time in dorms, cottages, or campsites (except
during children/youth camps). The food is excellent and programs are optional.
Early booking is recommended.
Information: brmdamon@aci.on.ca, UnicampofOntario@hotmail.com,
905-727-4097 (winter), 519-925-6432 (summer) or www.gpcomp.com/unicamp
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UniStar
Camp UniStar is a camp for Unitarian Universalist individuals and families
and other like-minded people. It is located on Star Island in Cass Lake,
a part of the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota. During the
season, the camp offers ten family weeks with various programs, a Work
Week, Boundary Waters canoe trips, and September group retreats. The lake
encourages water activities; the forest trails attract hikers; sunrises
and sunsets invite meditation. Each year UniStar campers return for peace,
quiet, and serenity to an island retreat with no roads or commercial enterprise.
Star Island even has its own lake, Windigo, acknowledged in Ripley's Believe
It or Not series as “the lake in the island in the lake.”
For Information call: 651-22-4571 (winter), 218-335-2692 (summer),
or www.psduua.org/unistar/forms.html
Unirondack Family Camp – August 21-27, 2005
We will also be holding two Family Canoe adventures this summer. Unirondack's
Family Camp in Loweville, New York, is a relaxing week in the Adirondack
wilderness, where campers can swim, explore nature, play games, eat good
food, and enjoy the company of other UU and like-minded families. For
a full description of the session and our other programs, please refer
to our website.
Contact: Marcus Jaklin at director@unirondack.org,
413-256-5402. Information and registration materials are available at
www.unirondack.org .
Western UU Life Festival (WUULF) at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico –
June 6-12, 2005
Two Paths: Shamanism or Building Your Own Theology
Ghost Ranch is a magical place and a week at our Western Unitarian Universalist
Life Festival can be a magical time. WUULF is a truly intergenerational
community that has come together at this location for more than thirty
years.
WUULF is an experience of renewal adventure; an opportunity to relax,
explore, hike, laugh, sing, and socialize; and a chance to greet old friends
and meet new ones, in a place where all are welcome. No two people who
come to WUULF choose the same path. One will hike while another walks
the labyrinth in silence. In recognition of our diversity, we have chosen
to offer two paths for our program workshops this year. Kathy Montan will
be returning to WUULF from upstate New York to help us delve deeper into
Shamanism, while Rev. Mike Morran, who served as our minister-in-residence
for the past four years, will return to facilitate a Building Your Own
Theology workshop. Whatever your choice, whatever your are looking for,
we hope that you will join us at Ghost Ranch this year to discover or
rediscover the magic of WUULF.
Contact: Sally Madsen, Steve Slagle, co-directors registrar@wuulf.org,
413-339-4954, www.wuulf.org/mindex.html
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