Environmental Justice Tour before General Assembly
All Eyes Open Start your time in Louisville with a Pre-GA Environmental Justice Tour on Wednesday! There are two tours – one specifically for youth – so make sure you register for the right one! These tours are offered for just $20 by local group Earth & Spirit Center and sponsored by KY Interfaith Power & Light in partnership with KY & WV UU Ministers Coalition, UU College of Social Justice, UU Ministry for Earth, UUA Multicultural Growth & Witness and Standing on the Side of Love Staff Team, and UU State Advocacy Networks and UULM California’s SALT Fellows (Spiritual Activist Leadership Training). The Earth & Spirit Center offers Environmental Justice Tours of Louisville’s contaminated…
Volunteer to Reduce the Cost of Attending GA
Be a Youth Volunteer at GA! GA Volunteers offer hours of service in exchange for a paid registration. For youth registrations, volunteers need to give 14 hours of work during General Assembly. Volunteers still have plenty of time to participate in what General Assembly has to offer and it’s a great way to be involved. Youth serve as volunteers in any number of capacities, including ushers, recycling volunteers, and more, but there is a new opportunity this year we especially wanted to highlight for youth. If you’re comfortable with social media, handy with a camera and interested in helping share General Assembly with the wider UU world, then the new Youth Media Volunteer…
GA ’13 Youth Group Grants
General Assembly Competitive Grants for Youth A limited number of $1000 competitive grants are available to youth groups that are organizing to attend GA together. To qualify, groups must have at least five participants from the same congregation. Applications will be judged by a group’s demonstrated ability to raise the additional funds necessary to attend GA, and the ways in which the group will use their GA experience to enhance their congregation or community life. Youth in groups who are applying for these grants may still apply for individual financial aid awards under the Youth and Young Adult Scholarship and General Assembly Planning Committee Matching Grants programs. However, we ask that groups indicate on their…
#futureofga Storify
Follow – and add to – the conversation on the Fifth Principle Task Force reports discussed at the UUA Board of Directors recent Philadelphia meeting. This storify gives you the direct Twitter conversation “#futureofga#. It’s not too late to add your opinion – Tweet at us at YAYAUUA, #futureofga. [View the storify "Future of UUA General Assembly"]
YA Comment on #futureof ga
The recent UUA Board meeting agenda in Philadelphia included Fifth Principle Task Force Reports, on the future of General Assembly, a subject of particular interest to Unitarian Universalist young adults. Here we excerpt a comment from a post by Kevin Leininger on his experience and thoughts following his address the Board. (Read full story here.) –Ed. Young Adults represented at UUA Board of Trustees Meeting?! by Kevin Leininger, YASC Co-Moderator The main concern was how GA Delegates currently work. Currently, GA Delegates are not required to be responsive to the needs of their congregation. Many delegates are self-selected to represent their church based on having the free time and money to attend. Rarely…
Create a Camp @ GA’13
Covenant Children’s Camp @ GA’13: RFP To create an integrated religious experience for our children at our largest gathering as a faith community, the General Assembly Planning Committee seeks applications to provide the content and implementation of a day camp that engages children in actively deepening and developing their faith formation around covenant and how we gather, the two areas of focus for GA 2013. Logistics: Camp: Located at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Louisville (within walking distance of many activities and museums). Kiddie Corps, the national child care company that UUA contacts with for childcare will: provide staff for the check-in and pick-up, provide two staff members, provide snacks and beverages, process criminal history/felony…
Introducing the YA Caucus Staff Part 2: Andrew Edition
Previously we met Sarah Napoline, the Young Adult Caucus Community Chaplain. Today, We’ll meet Andrew Coate, Worship Coordinator. – Ed. What’s your background in Unitarian Universalism? Aside from skirting the edges of Unitarian Universalism and liberal religion in general for years in high school I first got deeply involved at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth in Ellsworth, ME, while I was a student at The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME. In the winter of 2011 I moved to Boston and got involved with First Parish in Cambridge where I currently serve as a lay leader in a number of capacities. I’ve also done a lot of social justice work from…
Introducing the YA Caucus Staff
The office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries and the Co-Moderators of the Young Adult Caucus for the 2013 General Assembly are pleased to announce the Young Adult Caucus Staff. Sarah Napoline will serve as Community Chaplain, while Andrew Coate will serve as Worship Coordinator. Today, we’ll meet Sarah Napoline, the community chaplain, who made the time to answer a few questions despite her busy schedule as an Intern Minister. Ed.: What’s your background in Unitarian Universalism? Sarah: I’ve been Unitarian Universalist my whole life! I was raised UU in the First Parish in Concord, Massachusetts, and I’m a signed member of that congregation. During high school and college I remained active as…
The Future of GA
Tweet in on the discussion on Twitter at #futureofga Do you know about the 5th Principle Task Force which was commissioned to examine how to restructure the Unitarian Universalist Association’s annual business meeting General Assembly (GA)? In 2009, this group issued a report with some big recommendations for how to restructure this Unitarian Universalist event. Commissioned by the UUA Board of Trustees, the report describes the governance activities of the GA Plenary Sessions as “dramatically broken,” “not really democratic” and “economically discriminatory.” In place of the current GA structure, the task force recommends a more focused business meeting every other year buttressed by intentional local engagement throughout the two-year process, with or without an additional program assembly….
Meet the Youth Caucus Deans
Each year, two youth take charge of planning and running the Youth Caucus at General Assembly. We’ve asked the 2013 Deans to share a bit about themselves and what they want you to know about General Assembly. –Ed. Senior Dean Asha Arora Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix Other UU activities: Co-Dean of PSWD’s upcoming winter camp, Camp ApUUcalypse; trained UU elementary camp counselor; past Social Action Coordinator and PSWD’s summer camp, Summer of LUUv. Junior Dean Owen Huelsbeck Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation Other UU Activities: Chaplain at district cons; past GoldMine Youth Leadership School staff; member of PNWD’s Youth Empowerment Services. Q&A What have…
