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LREDA FALL CONFERENCE 2008
Albuquerque, NM October 24-27
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town
Registration
Form
Scholarship Form
Child
Subsidy Form
“Building
a Multigenerational Faith
Creating
Wholeness in our Congregations”
with keynote speaker
The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker
Starr King School
of the Ministry President, author and noted theologian, the Rev. Dr. Rebecca
Parker, will share her vision of our Unitarian Universalist
congregations as integrative, holistic sites that foster wholeness and liberation.
Workshops
- Looking through a
multigenerational lens, UUA District Staff along with practitioners in the
field, will offer workshops covering topics that include: Social Justice, Leadership
Worship, Learning
Communities Spiritual Eldering; Mentoring; Milestones/Rites
of Passage; and, more!
We
will also have opportunities to engage with our Integrity
Team and the Religious Education Credentialing
Committee. (RECC).
Meet
the UUA Presidential Candidates, and more!
The
Rev. Laurel Hallman and the Rev. Peter Morales plan to join us to share their
visions for our movement and respond to questions.
And,
we are delighted to announce our Odyssey Presenter, the
Rev. Patricia Hoertdoerfer.
We look forward to our time together, in both
large and small group gatherings. As a continental organization, LREDA
welcomes members from areas throughout the United States and Canada. Won’t you join us?
CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE at a glance
More Fall Conference
2008 details will come with your confirmation package which is usually mailed
2-3 weeks prior to the conference.
Friday, October 24,
2008
3-6 pm Registration, bookstore open
5 pm First Timers Meet and Greet
6 pm Dinner
7 pm Welcome
7:30 pm Ingathering Worship – Mountain Dessert
Chapter
8 - 9:30 pm Program
Saturday,
October 25, 2008
Worship
Keynote Presentation
Program
UUA Presidential Candidate’s Forum
Bookstore, Self Care, Free Time and Dinner on your own
Sunday,
October 26, 2008
Worship
Program
Keynote Presentation con’t
LREDA Business Meeting
Professional Interest Groups
Banquet dinner
LREDA Odyssey & Dessert Reception
Monday,
October 27, 2008
8:30 am UUA staff & other special presentations
11:15am Closing
Worship
1:45 pm
LARGE Registration & Program (lunch on own)
6:30 pm
LARGE dinner
Tuesday,
October 28, 2008
8:00 am
LARGE Worship, Program, Business Meeting
11:30
am LARGE adjourns
HOUSING: Room reservations can
be made directly with the Hotel
Albuquerque at Old Town. Our Rate Code is GRPB66 If you don’t
have internet, call toll free 866-505-7829. Our group rate is good until
September 21.
ROOMMATE SEARCHES: The LREDA Administrator, Julie Lambert, will keep
a list of those searching for roommates.
If you’d like to be sent the list, email her at LREDA@uua.org
To be
added to the list, send an email to her containing your name; the dates of
the nights for which you want a roommate; your state; your email and your
phone number. Also, please notify
her when you have found a roommate and wish to be removed from the list.
Travel to Albuquerque
The Hotel Albuquerque is in Old Town Albuquerque. 800 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Albuquerque,
NM 87104.
Parking is complimentary. The airport shuttle costs $14 each way, reservations must be made at least 24 hrs. ahead through Sunport Shuttles or 866-505-4966.
Funding and
Scholarships
LREDA offers partial scholarships to its current
members, as well subsidies in support of Child Care. Preference for
scholarships will be given to first-time attendees, religious educators with
no professional expense funds, and those who have not previously received
scholarship assistance for Fall Conference. Subsidies for Child Care first
come, first served. Scholarship
recipients are expected and encouraged to be full participants in the entire
Conference. Scholarship and subsidy forms are at the beginning of this
webpage, and should be returned to LREDA Treasurer c/o Administrator, PO Box 96, Grapevine,
TX 76099
by August 21, 2008
CANCELLATION POLICY
A cancellation between
September 10 and September 21, 2008 will incur a $50 penalty. Any fees paid
in excess of $50.00 will be refunded. A cancellation received between
September 21 and October 10, 2008 will incur a penalty equal to the amount of
the registration fees paid. No refunds can be made for cancellations after
October 10, 2008 Requests for refunds must be made in writing to: LREDA
Treasurer c/o Administrator, PO
Box 96, Grapevine, TX 76099
LARGE Add-On Day '08
Following
the conclusion of LREDA Fall Conference
“Challenges of Shared Ministry:
Moving from Temporary to Permanent Solutions”
With Rev. Robert Latham
We will focus on some of the needs and challenges faced by religious educators
serving large congregations and/or large religious education programs, as
articulated at our LARGE '07 business meeting. However, all interested religious
educators are welcome!
You
have identified three basic challenges that hinder successful staff
leadership in the larger congregation:
Ø
Staff become surrogates for congregants' own ministry commitment
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Staff empowerment turns into staff dependency
Ø
Congregants fail to engage ministry in meaningful ways
These
challenges are motivational in nature.
When attempts at motivation go unheeded, our tendency is to look to
the novelty of new techniques to inspire commitment. Let's avoid this short-term approach
and focus on lasting solutions.
Engage with us in addressing the kinds of shared ministry challenges
that tend to afflict large congregations, in particular. Restore the energy and enhance the
vision of your RE program!
Rev.
Latham grew up in a conservative Christian tradition. As a result of a challenging
educational experience in seminary, his religious view of reality was
transformed. And, as a result of
an equally shattering experience in Vietnam, his cultural
perspectives were also transformed.
On the wake of these transformations, he discovered Unitarian
Universalism and officially entered our professional ministry in 1969.
Rev. Latham has served as both settled minister and as
interim minister for congregations of all membership sizes. He has also been the lead minister for
a number of successful projects for the UUA, as well as for some of our
districts. His published works
consist of The Unitarian Universalist Extension Manual (1985) and Moving On From Church Folly Lane (2006).
LARGE Add-on Day Schedule
Monday
12:00-1:45 Say
good-bye to departing friends; lunch on your own; rest & re-charge
1:45-2:00 Register
for LREDA LARGE program
2:00-6:00 Program,
Part I
6:30-9:30 A
relaxing dinner (provided) and conversation together at the hotel
Entertainment or renewal activity if someone wants to
lead or arrange**
Tuesday
7:30-8:00 Breakfast
(provided)
8:00-8:30 Worship
8:30-10:30 Program,
Part II
10:30-11:30 LREDA
LARGE Business Meeting
11:30
Adjourn
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Participants at our '07 business meeting expressed interest in a leisure
activity of some kind to follow dinner.
Contact Jan Gartner, janw@rochesterunitarian.org
, if you would like to lead or organize something!
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~ PAST CONFERENCES ~
LREDA FALL CONFERENCE 2007
San Antonio, TX
October 12-15
Doubletree Hotel San Antonio Airport
“Weaving
the Fabric of Our Faith”
Unitarian Universalism is a transforming faith that is held
in communities and in the hearts and minds of those who claim it. How can we provide programs across the
lifespan that meet our need to seek meaning, to be held in love, to channel
our passion for justice, and satisfy our quest to know more deeply the
diversity and wholeness of our Unitarian Universalist
faith?
The Lifespan Faith Development staff group of the UUA
invites you to join them as they share steps of their current journey from
inquiry to actualization of Tapestry of Faith, a series of programs and
resources for all ages.
Engage in deep consideration of how we can equip and
empower congregations to provide experiences across the lifespan that nurture
Unitarian Universalist identity, spiritual growth,
faith, and ethical development.
Together we will ponder philosophical and pragmatic
issues. How can we honor
individual and community development at once? How can we give definition to
what it means to develop Unitarian Universalist
identity while honoring diversity?
How can we deepen our theological understanding of growing in
faith? How can we reach seekers
of all ages?
Presented by UUA Lifespan Faith Development
Staff: Judith A. Frediani, Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh,
Dr. Tracy L. Hurd, and Jessica York. With special speaker, UUA President,
Rev. William Sinkford.
Canadian Unitarian
Council’s Lifespan Learning Community Program Powerpoint
Presentation
LARGE Add-On Day
Monday Oct. 15 noon-Tues Oct. 16 noon
“Spiritual Leadership”
How do we merge our
leadership with our faith principles?
From defining roles and responsibilities, to crafting and implementing
policy, to managing conflict, our Unitarian Universalist
values provide us with not only the tools but the inspiration to lead with
confidence and authenticity. Join us as we welcome Gini Courter, dynamic Moderator
of the Unitarian Universalist Association!
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LREDA Fall Conference 2006
Orlando, Fl October 20-23
Crowne Plaza Orlando Airport Hotel
“To Honor the Many Gifts We Bring”
The
LREDA Integrity Team tempts you to prepare your heart and soul for the 2006
LREDA Fall Conference in Orlando,
Florida. The topic is Linked Oppression. We will be looking at common threads
that run through the many forms of oppression that prevail in our society
today as we try to surface, name and grapple with the forces that prevent us
from achieving the diverse communities we claim to want. To help us articulate our journey, we
have invited Dr. William R. Jones, scholar, educator, philosopher and
activist to be our keynote speaker.
The tragedy of oppression is alive with emotionally charged stories of
people’s experiences. We
invite you over the next few months to expand and deepen your understanding
of oppression.
We’ve provided a
link to what we hope will be an expanding list of books, movies and music
from popular culture that touch on issues of racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism and gender stereotypes. Integrity Team List
Most of all, though, we’d like you to engage in a discovery
process, expanding and deepening your own skills and understanding so that we
may truly “honor the many gifts we bring.”
**These
resources have been reviewed and recommended by Fall Conference 2006
presenters, allies, and/or members of the LREDA Integrity Team. Please read the materials on the
Foundation list, AND choose at least one resource from the topic area you
plan to focus on at the Conference, and read, view, listen to or use it
before you arrive at the Conference.
We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Foundation List
Resources
Canadian
Materials
Canadian Timeline – Nunavut
Canadian History
Resolutions of the Canadian Unitarian Council
(CUC)
Canadian Unitarian Council’s Views on
Racism
Canadian Resources
Race and First Nations Equity, by the Rev. Mac
Elrod
LREDA
Integrity Team
Annie
J. Scott, Chair
Helen
Bishop
Gail
Forsyth-Vail
Chris
Parker (liaison, LREDA Board)
Lisa
Rubin
Jessica York
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LREDA FALL CONFERENCE 2005
Philadelphia, PA October 21-24
Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia
“Mapping
Uncharted Territory:
New
Directions for Growing Learning Congregations”
Our
presenter, Rev. Lawrence Peers has provided consulting and
training to new and established congregations of various sizes, boards of
trustees, nonprofits, judicatories, young adult conferences, and national
denominational organizations across North America. He has served as a
congregational development and growth consultant with a national
denominational office, as a minister and as a religious educator in local
congregations, as a therapist and as a program coordinator in a nonprofit
agency. He draws from a rich array of insights and methods developed in his
work in congregational studies, organizational development, and spiritual
discernment processes. Larry has worked extensively on inter-denominational
projects and we are very pleased to have him as our LREDA fall conference
2005 presenter.
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LREDA Fall Conference 2004
CHICAGO, IL October 22-25
Sheraton Gateway Suites
O’Hare
After the conference in Chicago, there were many
requests for handouts from the presenters. The following are the documents that
the presenters were willing and able to share on the web:
Todd
Strickland/Catherine Farmer: WAY
COOL
Way Cool Sunday School is
an experiential RE format, incorporating
regular
Worship, Social Justice, and Arts Sundays as well as curriculum-based
Classroom
Sundays, all grounded in a common focus on our Unitarian Universalist
principles
and values. At its heart lies the
conviction that children are
best
served when integrated into the whole life of the church,
and
that RE is where congregational transformation happens.
Nita Penfold: SPIRIT PLAY
Spirit
Play is the Unitarian Universalist adaptation of
Jerome Berryman’s
Montessori-based
religious education program, Godly Play.
Spirit Play
honors multiple ways of learning in a concrete environment
rich with story,
spirituality,
and art, where children can live into their own answers to
existential
questions while learning to live out their values in a community
of multi-aged children.
Gail
Forsyth-Vail/Helen Zidowecki: SMALL GROUP MINISTRY
Small Group Ministry and Relational
Religious Education
This model of religious education puts the emphasis on relationship.
Children/ youth and the adults who work with them connect with each
other and connect their own lives with the meaning found in sacred or
wisdom stories. The presentation will include the philosophical and
theological underpinnings of the model as well as practical information
on implementation in the local congregation.
Kathy
Keith/September Gerety: Workshop Rotation
(no materials available for web as of
2-15-05)
Workshop
Rotation is a multidimensional approach to religious education
based on
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. Each lesson
is presented in several workshop
forms, allowing children to experience and
interact with
the topic in a variety of ways.
The result is learning and a degree of
understanding and retention that
can come only from actually experiencing the
lesson. As it engages all the senses, it also
engages a broad cross-section of the
congregation, with multiple
opportunities for adult participation in short-term commitments.
“Religious
Education:
Models for the 21st Century”
Keynote
Speaker—Vivian Gussin Paley
Macarthur
Fellow and author of many books including White Teacher; You Can’t
Say you Can’t Play; Kwaanza and Me and
new in Spring 2004 The Endangered Occupation: A
Defense of Fantasy Play
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Interactive hands-on learning…
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Featuring a variety of models…
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Hear about all four models during theme
presentations on Saturday morning, then choose two
for more in depth learning through demonstration workshops!
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