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The UUCF at General Assembly 2009
Salt Lake City, UT, June 24-28
Sharing Our Presence
 
Look for these programs and events highlighting the UUCF presence at General Assembly, and check back to the www.uuchristian.org website for updates and more information:
 
GA Communion Service is planned to be co-sponsored with the Massachusetts Bay District of the UUA as one of their allocated GA program slots. The communion service preacher will be the Rev. Earl Holt of King's Chapel in Boston. When elected the 15th Minister of King’s Chapel in Boston in December of 2000, Earl Holt was serving his 27th year as Minister of the First Unitarian Church of St. Louis.  A native of New England and life-long Unitarian, he grew up in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated from Brown University in 1967. Among many denominational responsibilities, he served as Chairman of the Board of Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, California, where he received his M. Div. in 1972 and which awarded him an honorary doctorate during the School’s centennial in 2004.  He recently completed a term as Chair of the UUA Commission on Appraisal, which presented its latest quadrennial Report, Engaging our Theological Diversity, at the 2005 General Assembly in Fort Worth. Currently, among other community activites, he serves on the Boards of the UU Urban Ministry and the Mass. General Hospital Institute of the Health Professions, and is a Trustee of the Massachusetts Bible Society.  Mr. Holt broadcasts a weekly radio commentary Sunday mornings at 8 o’clock on WCRB 99.5 FM.See www.kings-chapel.org for more.
 
New This Year: A Larger, Shared Booth Space and Events. This year we will almost triple the size of our recent large General Assembly booth as we will share a joint programming space and booth space with the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship and the UU Mystics. Each of us will continue to have the size of booth we have had in the past, for our own materials and gatherings and displays, but we will also share a common booth space of 300 square feet to be used for joint conversations and mini-GA programs throughout the hours the Exhibit Hall is open. Share with us your presence as we create this new multi-shared presence. We will have chances to hold our own programs in the enlarged space as well as joint programs with the other groups and others. As our own programming requests were denied this year, and as our loss of affiliate status prevented us from receiving former allocated program slots, we have been able to creatively respond in a way that will actually increase our presence during this important event. Come help us plan and carry out our GA presence. Check back with www.uuchristian.org under General Assembly links as we update and schedule our special booth events this year.
 
Annual Meeting, Dinner, Hymn Sing, will be held Saturday, June 27, from 6 to 8 pm at First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, 569 S 1300 E.
 
UUCF Lending Library Opens
 
We have begun our own UUCF lending library, especially for small group use, or for individuals presenting programs in their churches, or for their own personal spiritual growth. See below for some of the material we have begun making available for library rental free of charge, or for shipping costs only. Also if you have special material like tapes or DVDs or other material to include in the UUCF library, please send to our office or contact Ron Robinson. To check out material, or to find out when it will become available, contact the UUCF office.
 
---Saving Jesus: From the Christian Right and Secular Left, a DVD from the progressive Christian folks at www.livingthequestions.com. Twelve sessions featuring contemporary biblical scholars and pastors.
---Eclipsing Empire: Paul, Rome, and the Kingdom of God. DVD Scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan take a group on tour following the footsteps of the Apostle Paul and presenting the latest findings and understandings of Paul and the early church and Jesus' mission. Twelve sessions. also from www.livingthequestions.com.
---CD audio tape, "Caught Between The Bible and TV: Church in a New Age" by Brandon Scott, parables scholar and author and seminary professor and Jesus Seminar fellow.
---VHS Romero, movie starring Raul Julia as Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador.
---King's Chapel Book of Common Prayer
Check back to www.uuchristian.org as we add to our Lending Library of new and classic material.

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