<html><div>Some UU News for You UUs... Be Well~Stay Calm, Jim<br><br>---------- Forwarded Message ----------<br>From: MidAmerica Region UUA <midamerica@uua.org><br>To: <gymbeau@netzero.com><br>Subject: MidAmerica Messenger - August 2018<br>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 13:15:10 +0000<br><br><!doctype html></p><!--[if gte mso 15]>
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Whether in religious education, board leadership, spiritual development, membership, finance, and/or ministry, we hope you will check out our resources to help you grow! </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">This summer I was selected to serve on the UUA’s “Organizational Change Design Team.†This is a daunting honor. Our group is tasked with dismantling white supremacy and advancing equity in the UUA’s organizational culture, staff leadership and development, and communications. We will be working closely with Executive VP, Carey McDonald, Director of HR, Rob Molla, and Director of Multicultural Growth and Witness, Taquiena Boston.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">For me, one of the hardest parts of the work is uncovering my own blind spots of privilege and discrimination. I have served thirty years in this work, and I have so much more to learn. Humility is my constant companion, as is curiosity. What don’t I know that is keeping me stuck? What is my work? What can I learn when I listen? What am I called to do? I am grateful for the many partners I will have at the UUA as we do this work together. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Our MidAmerica Staff team continues with this work as well. We finished our common read, <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=8f8b0add91&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity,and Power in Ministry</span></a> (Mitra Rahnema, Editor) last spring and have moved on to <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=e4a1d008df&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds</span></a> by adrienne maree brown. We encourage all our congregations to find creative ways to do this work. If you haven’t already, watch the <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=38a17e8917&e=5b6781e08f"><span style="color: #0000cd;">2018 Ware Lecture by Brittany Packnett</span></a>.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">As always, your MidAmerica Team is here to help! Be in touch!</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Love and Faith,</span></span><br> <span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sharon Dittmar, Congregational Life Consultant</span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if mso]>
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You can find complete details on the series in Nancy’s article below.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Next up is a perennial favorite from Ian Evison and Tony Sweazy: How to Be a Great Congregational President, which will be offered twice, on <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=5011a622de&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">09/06/2018</span></a> at 7:45 pm and <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=a087fe172a&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">09/12/2018</span></a> at 7:45 pm.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lisa Presley will be hosting a terrific follow up to that webinar with a new Congregation Presidents' Webinar Series 2018-19 beginning on <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=47f497de6a&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">September 18, 2018</span></a> at 7:30 PM.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">And on <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=8355ad68be&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">September 25</span></a> and <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=3dfeb6e60a&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">September 26</span></a>, MidAmerica Region and the UU Association of Membership Professionals will be co-sponsoring a webinar on ways to ensure that people with disabilities are being welcomed into our congregations.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">On Tue, <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=a8c695be5e&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">October 16, 2018</span></a>, Rev. Bill Gupton will presenting Green Burial 101, which, in addition to explaining what is a “green burial,†will tell the story of how and why one UU church has gotten involved in the green burial movement.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">On Thu, <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=bb9fcf614a&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">November 1, 2018</span></a>, Rev. Christina Leone-Tracy will offer a Canvass Conversations webinar, with information on how last year her congregation put a new emphasis on giving as a spiritual practice and had a "reverse offering" with excellent results.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Other webinars are in the works, so be sure to keep an eye out for them in future issues of the MidAmerica Messenger!</span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if mso]>
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<![endif]--><table class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="padding: 0px 18px 9px; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #656565; text-align: left;" valign="top"><h2 class="mc-toc-title" style="text-align: justify; display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ab1b42; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal;" data-gcf-font-size="18pt"><a id="faithify" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" name="faithify"></a>Faithify Campaign to Assist Kansas Poor People's Campaign</h2><div data-gcf-font-size="12pt"><p style="text-align: center; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><img style="border: 0px; width: 500px; height: 375px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f/images/8e2f99d0-f016-4d33-b32f-a0dfd778d22e.png" alt="" width="500" height="375" data-file-id="464681"></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Help support our Unitarian Universalist congregations in Kansas as they engage in direct action and civil disobedience designed to draw attention to the conditions in Kansas and across the country that are causing inequality. UUs from the Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan, Shawnee Mission, Wichita, and Salina congregations have been working with the Kansas Poor People’s Campaign—a participant in the national Poor People’s Campaign—to highlight the issues of poverty, racism, militarism and the environment and the way in which they are linked. The direct action and civil disobedience has lead to the arrests of numerous people, including UU ministers Rev. Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan, Rev. Jonalu Johnstone and Rev. Rose Schwab.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Each participant arrested for civil disobedience likely will spend a minimum of $200. Many participants are themselves low income and several participated in civil disobedience more than once. To help cover the cost of legal fees, the Kansas Poor People’s Campaign has launched a Faithify campaign to create a fund to provide financial support for over 100 people who participated in civil disobedience during the 40 days of the opening act of the Moral Revival for the Poor People's Campaign. To make a donation to the Faithify campaign, visit <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=9c6a46338e&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">https://faithify.org/projects/kansas-poor-peoples-campaign-legal-fund/</span></a>.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">You can find out more about the Kansas Poor People’s Campaign <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=f4d4075cb1&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">here</span></a>, and the national Poor People’s Campaign <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=e799e54937&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">here</span></a>. For more information on how other UU congregations in the MidAmerica Region and across the country are supporting the Poor People’s Campaign, visit <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=740ff8006e&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">https://www.uua.org/racial-justice/poor-peoples-campaign</span></a>. And if your congregation is participating in the Poor People’s Campaign through direct action and civil disobedience, let us know! We’d love to share your stories. Email them to <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:plund@uua.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">plund@uua.org</span></a>.</span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if mso]>
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<![endif]--><table class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="padding: 0px 18px 9px; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #656565; text-align: left;" valign="top"><h2 class="mc-toc-title" style="text-align: justify; display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ab1b42; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal;" data-gcf-font-size="18pt"><a id="futureuufaith" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" name="futureuufaith"></a>The Future of UU Faith Development</h2><div data-gcf-font-size="12pt"><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">The future of Unitarian Universalist faith development will be determined by our ways of learning together, here and now. There is a continuum of how we learn and grow, and that continuum is sparked by the engagement of invested lay leaders and religious professionals. You may ask, what is UU Faith Development? Well, <em>it is literally everything we do as Unitarian Universalists!</em> With that broad brushstroke, we do need a sense of focus, practice, and consciousness raising. With both now and future in mind, there will be multiple opportunities for religious education professionals to go deeper, to learn more, and be a part of an intentional learning community. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">In September, religious educators from the MidAmerica and the Southern Regions, are invited to be engaged, in thoughtful and intentional ways, in a three-session online series for New, Newer, and Veteran religious educators which will provide an opportunity to share/learn/review: </span></span></p><ul><li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" dir="ltr"><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">the basics of administering RE programs; ways to engage volunteers, and the importance of professional development with the Liberal Religious Educators Association; </span></span></p></li><li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" dir="ltr"><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">methods to expand the religious education lens to be lifespan, multicultural, and part of the entire congregational experience;</span></span></p></li><li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" dir="ltr"><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">UU faith development resources/experiential methods that are successful and sustainable and focused on a thriving future. </span></span></p></li></ul><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">I will be co-leading the 3 part series with a variety of talented folks, including leaders from the Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA), including LREDA Good Officers, and sage religious educators from both regions.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">You can register for the 3 part series <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://midamericauua.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25d203369701e9f17332c7e4f&id=5cc9897c56&e=5b6781e08f" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cd;">here</span></a>. The series has a registration fee of $35, which includes all three sessions. The Zoom meeting sessions will each be offered at two times (with the same content) and the meeting day and times will be on Tuesday evenings and the following Wednesday afternoons: Tues., 9/4, 7:30p-9p; Wed., 9/5, 1p-2:30p; Tues., 9/11 7:30p-9p; Wed., 9/12, 1p-2:30p; Tues., 9/25, 7:30p-9p; Wed., 9/26, 1p-2:30p (EDT).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">So looking forward to our engagement with one another,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy Combs-Morgan, Faith Development Director, MA Region of the UUA</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #656565;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">P.S. Also, in October there will be a “Youth Ministry and Beyond†series for youth ministry leaders and religious educators!</span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if mso]>
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<![endif]--><table class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top: 9px; padding-left: 18px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-right: 18px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="min-width: 100% !important; background-color: #3c3a73; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="padding: 18px; color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; line-height: 100%;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>We are seeking to covenant with each other to find new ways of partnering and standing together on the side of love for the flourishing of our world, our communities, our congregations and our members.</em></strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if gte mso 9]>
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