Youth Ministries Updates A monthly newsletter of the UUA Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries September 2009
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UUA Internship Opportunity
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Ever thought about getting to work at UU headquarters? Need something
to put on your resume? Been wanting to deepen your UU spirituality?
Have some extra hours to spare?
You can gain all of that and
more through a January-May internship for the UUA's Office of Youth and
Young Adult Ministries. Find out all of the details and apply by December 1!
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Youth Ministry Advisory
Committee (YMAC) Update
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The YMAC Transition
Team, as identified by the Youth Ministry Working Group, has begun meeting. In
collaboration with the UUA Administration, this group will draft a charge and
selection process for the Youth Ministry Advisory Committee, as called for by
the Youth Ministry Working Group.
You can read the recommendation that calls for the YMAC and the transition team's role in the larger report.
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Workshops at General Assembly
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If you have an exciting idea for a workshop you'd like to present at General Assembly in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 23-27, 2010, check out more information and the application!
The GA Planning Committee is looking for great workshops and is definitely interested in workshops with a multigenerational focus and with multigenerational leadership teams. The deadline for applications in October 15th, so don't delay!
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Greetings from the Director
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Greetings all,
Putting together a new office has certainly kept us busy
this month in the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries. Nonetheless, the
slow days of summer have provided a prime opportunity to do a little house
cleaning. As we have gone through old files and destined them for archiving or
recycling, one find has become a favorite distraction of mine: a pile People Soup issues from the 1970s.
People Soup was the official
publication of Liberal Religious Youth (LRY). Reading through the faded newsprint gives a
glimpse of the ways in which Unitarian Universalist youth ministry has changed
over the past thirty years and the ways in which it has stayed the
same.
Of course, one thing that has changed is how we
communicate. We no longer have People
Soup or Synapse--its
successor publication. Instead, Unitarian Universalists and their communities
are using Facebook (Check out UU Youth Ministry on
Facebook), Twitter, YouTube, and more to creatively express themselves and
post helpful resources online for the whole world to read! The Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia is even beta testing their new
website using the social networking platform
Ning.
You will notice this month that we have changed the way
we deliver Youth Ministries
Updates. Some advantages to this new system include the option to
easily forward Youth Ministries
Updates to a friend, youth, minister, youth advisor, or director of
religious education and encourage them to subscribe--also an easy task with this
new system! I hope you enjoy our new format. We welcome your feedback and your
submissions at [email protected].
In faith,
Erik B. Kesting
UUA Youth and Young Adult Ministries
Director
P.S. Speaking of communication, stay tuned for our
launch of a new Youth Ministry blog later this fall!
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From the Program Associate for Ministry to Youth and Young Adults of Color
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I am sitting in my home office listening to rain outside my
window very mindful that many of you are preparing to return to school or
wrapping your mind around the fact that summer is over. For those of you who participate in the life
of a congregation, September is a time of ingathering and the renewal of
programming.
In the month of September I will attend and co-facilitate caucus
workshops to support young adults who identity as people of color (persons of
Native American, Asian, Arab, Latino/a, African descent, trans-racially
adopted, bi-racial and multiracial) and people who identify as LBGT at the
Sustain the Spirit, Young Adult Labor Day Weekend Camp at de Benneville Pines. I will also spend time at the UUA in Boston networking,
attending meetings and deepening my working relationship with members of the Office
of Youth and Young Adult Ministries.
I invite and encourage you to stay informed about
programming, upcoming events and opportunities for leadership by visiting the
Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries online at uua.org and connectuu.com.
Also if you identity as a person of color, please check out uuyayaoc.blogs.uua.org
and druumm.org.
Living My Faith,
Rev Monica
[email protected]
uuyayaoc.blogs.uua.org
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Upcoming Chrysalis Trainings
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The Chrysalis Training Program offers youth and adults the
opportunity to gather, build community, and learn and enhance the skills needed
to be effective youth ministry leaders. There are three trainings currently scheduled:
To find out how your
district, organization, or congregational cluster can host a Chrysalis Training,
contact Jeremie Giacoia, Leadership Development Associate, at [email protected].
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Contact the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries |
Erik B. Kesting - Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries (617) 948-4359 - [email protected]Rev. Dr. Monica L.
Cummings - Program Associate for Youth and Young Adults of
Color
(262) 705-5786
- [email protected]Nancy DiGiovanni - Campus and Bridging Ministries Associate (617) 948-4629 - [email protected]Jeremie Giacoia - Leadership Development Associate (617) 948-4352 - [email protected]Sarah Prager - Youth and Young Adult Ministries Office Administrator (617) 948-4355 - [email protected]
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