Table of Contents
District President’s Column/Fall Leadership Conference
Annual Meeting Focuses on Membership, Annual Meeting Awards and Elections
Does Your Congregation Want to Be More Family Friendly?
New Fair Compensation Guidelines Will be Available at GA; CLF Pen Pals
Accepting Allies News/Study Action Issues at GA/New Asian Pacific Islander Caucus
Chalice Lighter Grant Made/Western Carolinas Cluster Forms
Congregations Focus Deeply on War / TJD Welcomes New Congregation / District Office Has New Sign
Welcome to Our New DREs
A warm welcome to those new to their religious education staff positions this spring:
- Kris Beliakoff, Director of RE, UU Church of Spartanburg, SC
- Tryst Chagnon, Director of RE, UU Fellowship of Raleigh, NC, who relocated here with her son from Roanoke, VA. She was serving as DRE in Charleston, WV.
- Rob DeLong, Director of Children's RE, Community Church of Chapel Hill, NC
- Linda Harrison, RE Coordinator, UU Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley, Black Mountain
- Melody Wingfield, DRE, UU Church of Chattanooga, TN
- Lori Koenig, RE Clerk, UU Church of Greensboro, NC
UUs Supporting National Public Radio
Are you a fan of National Public Radio? Many UU's are. Do you suspect that many other NPR listeners in our area might be UUs if they knew such churches existed? There is an easy way to support Public Radio while publicizing UU churches in your state. Jim Hennigan of the Greenville, SC, UU Fellowship is coordinating a SC statewide UU effort to underwrite popular NPR programs. Friends and members of UU churches who want to support public radio will make out checks to their local church but earmark the funds "For Public Radio". These funds will be used 100% to underwrite favorite programs such as "All Things Considered", "The World"," Click and Clack, "Prairie Home Companion", and classical music.
We can be "on the air" at least eight times weekly for three months with a message such as "This program has been brought to you by the Unitarian Universalist churches of South Carolina where your doubts and questions are as welcomed as your answers and certainties. UU congregations are located in Greenville, Spartanburg, Aiken, Clemson, Hilton Head, Beaufort, Columbia, Charleston, Newberry, and Myrtle Beach".
We also invite (and would mention the location) any NC or GA. congregations that receive SC public radio stations to join us in this campaign. We need $4,500 and are well on our way toward that goal.
Contact Jim at jimirish@bellsouth.net or Abby Fowler (Spartanburg) abby_steve@juno.com, 864-433-1244.
UUA President Sighted in TJ District
In spite of a very busy schedule that includes international visits, our UUA President, the Rev. Dr. Bill Sinkford, has attended a number of events around the Thomas Jefferson District.
Pictured here second from the right, the Rev. Dr. Sinkford participated in a panel discussion at the recent Social Justice Conference held at the UU Church of Charlotte, NC on March 15, 2003.
