From EKesting at uua.org Thu Feb 1 19:10:27 2007 From: EKesting at uua.org (Erik Kesting) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:10:27 -0500 Subject: [UU Young Adult News] Young Adult News - February 2007 - Issue 47 Message-ID: Young Adult News - February 2007 - Issue 47 WELCOME 1. Welcome from Erin Riffle, C*UUYAN Volunteer Facilitator for ConCentric REMINDERS 2. WANTED: GROUNDWORK trainers 3. Obtain a PASSPORT as soon as possible to attend OPUS and ConCentric EVENTS and OPPORTUNITIES 4. Seeking Our Whole Lives Trainers for the Adult and Young Adult Programs 5. Sexuality Education Advocacy Training in D.C. (Registration Deadline Monday, February 5th) 6. MANY amazing JOB opportunities 7. Young Adults Prophets Project PRESENTS: Religious Humanism in Resistance to State Violence 8. Turning to One Another II: UU Social Justice Ministry Consultation in DENVER, CO. INFORMATION 9. Earn conference scholarships at the YACM Office 10. Young Adult & Campus Ministry Office Contacts 1. Welcome from Erin Riffle, C*UUYAN Volunteer Facilitator for ConCentric Dear young adults and allies, I feel blessed to reach out to you in this otherwise cold and dreary weather here in Akron, Ohio. As I write this, the month of January is nearly complete, and we're moving quickly into a month of groundhogs and valentines, for whatever they're worth! As the ConCentric Facilitator, I've spent the last several weeks working with the Opus and ConCentric core staff teams to work through our staff selection process. It is an honor to read through applications of such devoted Unitarian Universalists, representing our entire age range, bringing leadership and extensive skills, and passion for our faith to our 2007 staff teams. The joy I take from this work is boundless and inspirational, and it's due to each one of you, conference attendees, leaders, and Unitarian Universalist visionaries. I encourage you all to keep your spiritual sparks kindled throughout the winter season. Read that book, take time for personal reflection and self care. But in such times, find those spiritual connections-in your congregation, your district conferences and events, in the walk you take with a loved one down a snowy trail. Love each other, spark each other's spirits, and stay connected! In faith and love, Erin Riffle, ConCentric Facilitator Back to Table of Contents 2. Want to be a Groundwork Trainer? GROUNDWORK is the Anti-Racism training and organizing program of Unitarian Universalist youth and young adults. Applications are now being accepted for the Groundwork training of trainers to be held from May 24-28th. The deadline for applications is March 31st. Find out more at http://www.uua.org/ya-cm/Groundwork/. Questions? Email Laurel Albina (lalbina at uua.org) or Nancy DiGiovanni (ndigiovanni at uua.org) If you want to host a Groundwork anti-racism training conference in your school or congregation like these cool folks are doing, visit our website at www.uua.org/ya-cm/groundwork. Back to Table of Contents 3. Get your PASSPORTS ready! OPUS and ConCentric, the annual Young Adult spiritual and business retreats will be held in Toronto, Canada this summer from August 10-19. Please make arrangements to obtain a valid passport as soon as possible. Effective January 8, 2007, all U.S. citizens traveling by air to and from Canada are required to have a valid passport to enter the United States. As early as January 1, 2008, U.S. citizens traveling between the United States and Canada by land or sea (including ferries), may be required to present a valid U.S. passport or other documents as determined by the Department of Homeland Security. Ample advance notice will be provided to enable the public to obtain passports or passport cards for land/sea entries. American citizen travelers are encouraged to apply for a U.S. passport or the passport card when it becomes available, well in advance of anticipated travel. American citizens can visit travel.state.gov or call 1-877-4USA-PPT (1-877-487-2778) for information on applying for a passport. TO APPLY FOR A PASSPORT VISIT http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html Back to Table of Contents 4. Seeking Our Whole Lives Trainers for Adult and Young Adult Programs The Unitarian Universalist Association seeks participants for a five-day intensive Training of Trainers workshop before leading weekend trainings. Backgrounds in sexuality or health education, human development, counseling, and/or health care are particularly welcome. Training of Trainers Workshop When: July 11-15 2007 Where: Boston, Massachusetts To request an information and application packet, contact curriculum assistant Rachael Brown: 617-948-6454 or rbrown at uua.org. Application deadline February 9, 2007. We welcome diversity of race/ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, and gender/gender identity in trainer applicants. Back to Table of Contents 5. Sexuality Education Advocacy Training in D.C. Do you know about current sexuality education policies in our country's school system? Do you want to know MORE? Do you want to visit CONGRESS to tell them the importance of the impact of sexuality education on our lives, loves and as a religious movement? Join our spiritual friends of the United Church of Christ---and gather groups in your area, school or congregation to attend the SEAT: Sexuality Education Advocacy Training in Washington, D.C. Check the website for any and all details and contact information: www.uua.org/ya-cm/youngadults/SEAT.html#lobby Back to Table of Contents 6. Job Opportunities Unitarian Universalist Association From the Unitarian Universalist Washington Office: The Unitarian Universalist Washington Office is hiring! We are now accepting applications for the three two-year positions described below. We invite interested readers to apply, and ask all of you to please consider forwarding the message to anyone you know who might be interested. Almost every person we've ever hired found out about the position from a UU friend or family member, so we hope you'll spread the word! 1. Program Associate for Peacemaking (www.uua.org/uuawo/new/article.php?id=926) 2. Legislative Assistant for Civil Rights and Religious Liberty (www.uua.org/uuawo/new/article.php?id=87) 3. Legislative Assistant for Women's Issues (www.uua.org/uuawo/new/article.php?id=87) For other UUA job openings, see www.uua.org/hr/openings.html. Forest Ethics Several jobs are open at Forest Ethics where you can learn and work to save our precious forests. To learn more about both of these positions and to learn how to apply, go to www.forestethics.org/about/jobs.html and scroll down. Back to Table of Contents 7. Young Adult Prophets Project The Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Prophets Project Presents Religious Humanism in Resistance to State Violence May 4 to 6, 2007 at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA We invite anyone interested in Unitarian Universalist history, identity and action to come and participate. We extend a special welcome to UU Seminarians and Young Adults. For more information and for a flyer, see http://yaprophets.warmcove.org/ or contact jhamilton at hds.harvard.edu. Back to Table of Contents 8. Turning to One Another II: UU Social Justice Ministry Consultation When: February 23-25, 2007 Where: Denver, CO Each of us carries a part of the solution. Hosted by 1st Unitarian Society of Denver and sponsored by the Urban Disciples (Veatch Program on UU Urban Social Justice Ministry) and the UU Society for Community Ministries (SCM). Event details including information on registration and program schedule for Turning To One Another II at www.urbandisciples.org or www.uuscm.org. A program flyer can be found at www.urbandisciples.org/files/2007/flyer.pdf. Questions? Contact Rev. Deborah Holder, (505) 231-7724. This event made possible by a generous grant from the UU Veatch Program at Shelter Rock. Back to Table of Contents 9. Earn conference scholarships at the YACM Office The Young Adult and Campus Ministry Office is seeking a few good volunteers who would like to help us with our work! In turn for 35 hours of service on-site in our Boston office, we'll give you a $150.00 scholarship to your choice of ConCentric, Opus, or General Assembly. Hours are flexible. Tasks include data entry, archiving, and preparing mailings. If interested, please contact Erik Kesting at ekesting at uua.org or 617-948-6463. Back to Table of Contents 10. Young Adult & Campus Ministry Office Contacts Nancy DiGiovanni - Young Adult and Campus Ministry Program Associate (617) 948-4629 ndigiovanni at uua.org Erik Kesting - Young Adult and Campus Ministry Assistant (617) 948-6463 ekesting at uua.org Joseph Santos-Lyons - Director of Campus Ministry & Field Organizing (503) 490-5639 jsantoslyons at uua.org Michael Tino - Director of Young Adult and Campus Ministry (919) 401-9944 mtino at uua.org www.uua.org/yacm Back to Table of Contents -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/cuuyan-announce/attachments/20070201/11e8d459/attachment-0001.html