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Table of Contents
Connecting
Your Congregation
District
President’s Column
Qiyamah’s
Corner
Ministerial
Matters
Lifespan
REmarks
Field Staff
Calendar / Save this Date!
Your Wild(e)
Trustees Report
Chalice
Lighter Update/1st Annual NC Choral Festival
A Victory for
Poultry Workers in NC!
Mind the Gap
Walking
Lightly on the Earth
Rev. Bill
Sinkford to Keynote TJD Anti-Racism Conference / TJD Young Adult & Campus
Ministry Midwinter Retreat
GLBT Issues /
TJ District Fair Share
Beacon Press
/ Reflection on FLC / Request for Proposals /A Day of Possibilities
Open
Positions / Visit Northern VA!
Resources for
Congregational Leaders
Lay
Leadership Development / The Flaming Chalice
District
Calendar |
Rev. Bill Sinkford to Keynote
TJD Anti-Racism Conference, Feb. 21-23
You probably need to get out your 2003 calendar this
minute. You'll want to block out the whole weekend of February 21 through
23 from Friday evening through the service Sunday morning. The reason?
First Unitarian Church of Richmond, UU in Richmond, VA will host the TJ
District's Annual Anti-Racism Conference that weekend, and it is already
shaping up to be an event not to be missed.
You will want to get the conference on your schedule early, so you won't
have to compete with several hundred other UUs from around the District
for a seat in the Great Hall. The District's Annual Anti-Racism Conference
usually draws about 200 people, but this year the competition could be
especially stiff, since so many people will be eager to hear Rev. Bill
Sinkford deliver the keynote address Saturday morning. Rev. Sinkford is
the President of our denominations, the Unitarian Universalist
Association, is an inspiring speaker, and is the first African American to
head a majority white denomination in the US.
Other features of the conference include a mini-film and discussion
series, three tracks of workshops, a coffee house, a bookstore, good food,
and much more. As you may know, our church has a reputation for making
events like this class acts, so we have high standards to uphold.
With this conference in mind, our congregations voted at the annual
meeting in June to adopt racial harmony as the church's social justice
theme for 2002-03. The hope was that by concentrating primarily on one
issue, we could enrich the experience for the congregation as a whole,
increase the ways in which members and friends could get involved, and
strengthen our social justice efforts.
Contact Adele McLean, site coordinator at amaclean@ or Bob Gross, TJ DARTT
Chair at bnjmusic@earthlink.net
for more information.
TJD Young Adult & Campus Ministry Midwinter Retreat
The Thomas Jefferson District is holding a Young Adult and
Campus Ministry Midwinter Retreat. This will be a Networking and Planning
Retreat that will help guide the future of Young Adult programs in the
District.
When: Friday, Jan. 31st (6PM) to Sunday, Feb. 2 (4PM)
Where: UU Church of Greensboro
5603 Hilltop Rd.
Jamestown, NC 27282
Facilitators:
Katie Sadler, UUA YA & CM Regional Organizing Consultant
Tara McDonald, Chair of TJD YA/CM Committee
Laurel Amabile, TJD Lifespan Program Consultant
What to bring:
Overnight gear for “camping out” at church
$20 to help cover food costs
Music and worship ideas
Your energy and creativity!
To register, contact Laurel Amabile at
laurelamabile@aol.com or
828-231-0960.
Please be sure to let her know if you have any special dietary or mobility
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