LREDA FALL CONFERENCE 2008
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| Date | Time |
Room |
Event |
| Friday 10/24 |
3:00 - 6:00 3:00 -4:30 |
Registration Integrity Team Conversation & Community Gathering for members of marginalized groups. |
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| *New | 4:30 - 5:30PM | LREDA Chapter Chats | |
| 5:15 - 5:45 |
1st Time Attendees Meet & Greet |
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| 6:00 - 7:00 |
Dinner |
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| 7:00 - 7:30, 7:30 - 8:00, 8:00 - 8:45 8:45 - 9:15 |
-Welcome/announcements -Ingathering Worship-Mt. Desert Chapter -Intro to Theme Small Group Ministry - Opening |
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| Saturday 10/25 |
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 9:00, 9:00 - 10:15 |
-Worship -Keynote Presentation |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Break |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 |
-Keynote Presentation |
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| 11:30 - noon |
-Small Group Ministry |
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| noon - 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
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| 1:15 - 3:15 |
-Principles in Multi-Generational Faith Development Session |
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| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Candidates Forum |
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| 4:30 - On |
Free Time |
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| Sunday 10/26 |
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
| 8:30a-9:00, 9:00-10:30 |
-Worship - LREDA Board -Pathways to Multi Generational Faith Development Sessions (workshops) |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45-noon | Keynote Presentation | ||
| Noon - 1:00pm 1:00-2:00 |
Lunch LREDA Meeting |
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| 2:30-3:45 | Small Group Ministry - Taking it Home |
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| 4:00 - 5:00 |
Professional Interest Groups | ||
| 5:30-6:30; 6:30-7:45; 7:45-8:30; 8:30- 9:30 |
Cash bar, VIP Banquet Dinner (minus dessert) Odyssey Speaker presentation, Dessert Reception |
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| Monday 10/27 |
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
| 8:45 - 11:15 11:15-11:45 |
UUA LFD & UUSC Presentations Closing Worship - North Atlantic Chapter |
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| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch Reception hosted by Beth Williams and the RE Credentialing Committee | ||
| Or, Lunch on your own | |||
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1:00 PM 2:00 PM |
Integrity Team Meeting LREDA LARGE |
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| 6:00-7:00PM | LREDA LARGE & Integrity Team dinner | ||
| Tuesday 10/28 |
7:30 AM- 8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
| 1:00 | Integrity Team meeting | ||
| 8:30 - 11:00 9:00 -10:00 10:00-11:00 |
LREDA LARGE Worship LREDA LARGE Conclusion of Program; small group processing; LREDA LARGE Business Meeting |
Travel to
The Hotel Albuquerque is in Old Town Albuquerque.
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,
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:
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Staff become surrogates for congregants' own ministry commitment
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Staff empowerment turns into staff dependency
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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
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 ~
Chart of
Past Conference Themes, Presenters and Locations
LREDA FALL CONFERENCE 2007
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
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
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.
Canadian
Materials
Resolutions of the Canadian Unitarian Council
(CUC)
Canadian Unitarian Council’s Views on
Racism
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
Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia
Larry Peers Powerpoint Presentation
“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
Sheraton Gateway Suites
O’Hare
After the conference in Chicago
Todd
Strickland/Catherine Farmer: WAY
COOL
Time Travel Worship Service
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
Brochure Intro Lessons Index Training Costs
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
Faith Development Grid RE Worship Theme Calendar Teacher Development
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”
For Pre-Conference Reading: Article by Betty Jo
Middleton
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!
