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216-861-0779
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Ecumenical ONA TrainingsThe Believe Out Loud Power Summit is an advanced training for leaders in the Welcoming Church Movement. Programming will include concrete skills-building in key areas of organizing and movement building, action-planning within our denominations and in partnership with local and state-wide secular efforts, dynamic worship, and visioning about the world we want to leave for our children. The Summit is scheduled for October 9–11, 2010, in Orlando, FL. Registration is free, but you are responsible for your own travel, lodging, and meals. To learn more, visit http://www.welcomingresources.org/BelieveOutLoud.htm. BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE CHURCH TRAININGS
See also http://www.welcomingresources.org/trainings.htm. UCC eventsIn September, 2010, we have a great opportunity to take our National Gathering 2010 theme, Any Body, Everybody, Christ's Body, deeper. We can join the UCC Mental Illness Network and UCC Disabilities Ministries for Widening the Welcome: Inclusion for All, in St. Louis, MO, September 23–26, 2010. At least one out of four families in your congregation is affected by a mental illness/brain disorder or disability. What a great time to continue the conversation begun in San Diego, CA! You can learn more about this opportunity at http://www.moredomainsforless.com/wideningthewelcome/index.htm. The Association of United Church Educators (http://www.auce-educators.org) will be hosting their regional gatherings:
The UCC New Church Leadership Institute offers resources for UCC church planters, re-developers, and conference staff. Watch for a variety of training opportunities relating to church growth at growtheucc.memberlodge.org/Default.aspx. Upcoming event topics include:
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The next General Synod of the UCC will be held July 1-5, 2011, in Tampa, FL. For more opportunities, watch the UCC calendar at www.ucc.org/calendar/. Other EventsThe first annual FamilyFest event will be held at the Paris Resort and Casino, in the heart of the world-famous Las Vegas strip, August 6–8, 2010. Under the theme of “A Celebration of Life," we will come to celebrate our style, challenge our minds, restore our bodies, and encourage our spirits. FamilyFest will conclude with a gospel brunch on Sunday, August 8, 2010, with gospel music and a keynote by Bishop Yvette Flunder. For more information, visit www.familyfestlasvegas.com. PFLAG Northeast Iowa will be hosting a multi-state, multi-organizational event on the campus of Luther College in Decorah, IA. Achieving Marriage Equality in the Heartland: Lessons from Iowa will be held August 13–14, 2010. The conference will bring Midwestern PFLAG and allied organizations, faith-based groups, legislative leaders and policy makers together to explore how to expand marriage equality to our neighboring states, how to preserve marriage equality in Iowa, and ways to build alliances and support for achieving marriage equality throughout the heartland. For further information, contact Bill Musser at billmusser@hotmail.com. Sisters in a Strange Land: A Retreat for Christian Lesbians will be held at the Leaven Center in Lyons, MI, August 20–22, 2010. If you have been longing to connect with sisters who claim both their lesbian and their Christian identities, Sisters in a Strange Land is the place for you! To learn more, visit www.leaven.org/upcoming.htm. Sisterly Conversations 2010: Honoring Our Diversities will be led by Virginia R. Mollenkott and Mary E. Hunt, September 10–12, 2010, at the Kirkridge Retreat Center in Bangor, PA. Each year we gather at Kirkridge as lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender women and our allies. This year we will focus on honoring our community's great diversities of gender identities, lifestyles, political outlooks, religious and spiritual practices, races/colors, health issues, levels of "outness," etc. Our plenary and small-group conversations will be stimulated by presentations by Mary Hunt ("Bridging Women's Cultural Differences") and by Virginia Mollenkott ("Biblical Insights about the Otherness within Our Oneness"). For more information, please visit http://www.kirkridge.org/programs/current-programs/9/10-to-9/12/2010---sisterly-conversations---mollenkott-and-hunt-294-137.html. Families in the Desert, sponsored by the Family Equality Council, will be held in Palm Desert, CA, October 8–10, 2010. LGBT families from all over the country will come together for a weekend of community-building and relaxing by the pool. For more details, visit www.familyequality.org/desert. Regional Fellowship Meetings hosted by The Fellowship's Regional Administrators and local host pastors will be coming in Fall 2010. Watch for more details at www.radicallyinclusive.com.
The Human Rights Campaign will organize Clergy Call 2011 in Washington, DC, May 22–24, 2011. Check back for more details at www.hrc.org/issues/religion/9194.htm as the dates draw near. The Fellowship's 2011 Annual Convocation will be held in Las Vegas, NV, July 6–10, 2011. Save the dates! The 2011 conference of the Evangelical Network will be held in Austin, TX, July 7–10, 2011. Watch www.theevangelicalnetwork.net for more details. The Equality Federation calendar is another great place you might look for local events. Visit that calendar at http://www.equalityfederation.org/template.aspx?id=801. More EventsKirkridge Events Leaven Center Events Holden Village Events |
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