UCC Coalition :: 7/2008 - Expanding Opportunities

2592 West 14th Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
800-653-0799
216-861-0779
office@ucccoalition.org

Open and Affirming (ONA) Program

Youth and Young Adult Program

National Gathering

About the ONA Program

ONA Basics

Why is ONA necessary?

Guidelines for ONA statements

Sample ONA statements

Shaping Your ONA process

How to be listed as ONA

ONA FAQ

Who is the ONA program?

ONA staff

ONA consultants

ONA Churches and Settings

ONA celebrations

1/2010 - ONA 10 Year Anniversary

6/2009 - ONA in the Southwest Conference

4/2009 - Massachusetts Celebrations

12/2008 - Learning about transgender

10/2008 - Blogging in Central Pennsylvania

7/2008 - Expanding Opportunities

4/2008 - ONA Campus Ministry (God-Talk @ USF)

3/2008 - ONA Sunday (Woodmont UCC)

Recent ONA declarations

ONA-Spirited Youth

More ONA Resources

Real Life ONA

ONA Sunday (4th Sunday in January)

Background

1985 General Synod "Open and Affirming" Resolution text

2003 General Synod "Transgender People"

We maintain an up-to-date list of upcoming training events on our main events web page.

July 2008

Dear Coalition members,

The Coalition Board of Directors took the bold step to set a goal to double the number of Open and Affirming (ONA) churches in five years. As of December 2007, twenty-two years after the ONA resolution passed, we listed 700 ONA churches.

To achieve this goal, we are training ONA resource people all over the country. Joining with ecumenical partners, we are offering workshops for people who want to work on the ONA process in their own churches, or to assist other churches in study and discernment.

Here is an opportunity to develop skills in community organizing and to help churches become Open and Affirming. This experiential learning session will be taught by an ecumenical team with collectively dozens of years of organizing experience.

For more information, please contact the Coalition’s national office at 800-653-0799 or e-mail at office@ucccoalition.org.

TRAININGS 2008-2009
August 7-10, 2008 Columbus, OH
August 21-24, 2008 Milwaukee, WI
September 19-21, 2008 Winston-Salem, NC
September 19-21, 2008 Glendale, CA
September 22, 2008 Clergy Day* (Glendale, CA)
October 2008 Harrisonburg, VA
October 2008 Washington, D.C.
October 17-19, 2008 Bay Area, CA
October 22, 2008 Clergy Day* (Bay Area, CA)
October 24-26, 2008 Goshen, IN
November 14-16, 2008 Washington, D.C.
December 5-7, 2008 San Antonio, TX
February 13-15, 2009 Atlanta, GA
February 12,2009 Clergy Day* (Atlanta, GA)
March 13-15 or 20-22, 2009 Detroit or Ann Arbor, MI

*The clergy day sessions are a one-day overview of the larger sessions.

We will maintain an up-to-date list of upcoming training events on our main events web page.