From jpaprocki at mchsi.com  Fri Oct 27 12:51:07 2006
From: jpaprocki at mchsi.com (Jim Paprocki)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:51:07 -0500
Subject: [Greensanctuary] Green Sanctuary Meeting - November 2, 2006
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I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the next Green Sanctuary Committee meeting on November 2, 2006, at 6:30pm, in Fellowship Hall, at the church.



The agenda is enclosed for your review and consideration. I also have enclosed a draft Application for Green Sanctuary Candidacy form. We will spend our time finalizing our application to the UU Ministry for Earth.

 

Please take some time to review the draft Application for Green Sanctuary Candidacy form prior to our meeting on November 2, 2006.

 

Thank you for all the work you do on behalf of our congregation!

 

Jim Paprocki

jpaprocki at mchsi.com



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AGENDA - November 2, 2006, 6:30PM

(1) Application for Green Sanctuary Candidacy
We will finalize our draft Application for Green Sanctuary Candidacy to be submitted to the UU Ministry for Earth. There will be discussion on our 12 step Action Plan.Our plan will include 12 projects or activities in the areas of  Worship and Celebration, Religious Education, Environmental Justice, and Sustainable Living..

(2) Other Business
We will discuss any additional issues from committee members.

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From jpaprocki at mchsi.com  Mon Oct 30 17:27:59 2006
From: jpaprocki at mchsi.com (Jim Paprocki)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:27:59 -0600
Subject: [Greensanctuary] Fw: UUMFE Environmental Justice Conference
Message-ID: <001601c6fc72$ae36b510$6401a8c0@userxztiolgj12>


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From: "UUMFEoffice" <uumfeoffice at windstream.net>
To: "Jim Paprocki" <jpaprocki at mchsi.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:53 PM
Subject: UUMFE Environmental Justice Conference




October 28, 2006



Dear UU Friends:

We need your assistance in helping UU Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) take a big 
leap forward in building a stronger network of Unitarian Universalists 
living out the Seventh Principle. We want to mobilize UUs to address 
environmental justice issues more effectively in their congregations and 
communities and to continue to spur denominational change from the "bottom 
up".

To do this, we want to plan an extraordinary, first of its kind, national UU 
environmental justice conference/training.  We envision this will be a 
highly participatory event, designed to speak to and engage the whole 
person -- physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. At the moment, we 
expect it will occur sometime during the Winter 2007 or Spring 2008.

To design this significant event and help us do the ambitious outreach 
necessary to make it a success, we would like to recruit 4-6 dynamic 
planning team members who represent a diverse range of UU constituencies and 
perspectives. Ideally, they will have experience engaging in some form of 
social activism within or outside of UU circles and/or experience planning 
educational activities. We especially want younger UUs and those who are 
people of color to be well-represented on the team.

UUMFE Program Director Rev. Katherine Jesch and Conference Planning 
Coordinator Pamela Sparr will staff the team, providing excellent guidance 
and administrative support.

The following is a description of conference objectives and expectations for 
planning team members, as well as the application form.  If you are 
interested in being considered for the planning team, please send in the 
application by November 17, to: office at uuministryforearth.org.  We will 
select team members by early December 1st and intend to hold our first 
conference call soon after.

Please also help us in our outreach and forward these materials to any 
active UU you think would be interested.


Sincerely,

Barbara Ford, Chair
UUMFE Board






UUMFE National Environmental Justice Conference/Training


Overarching Goal:
To deepen and broaden the national momentum that exists among individual UUs 
and UU congregations to embrace the Seventh Principle.  In particular, the 
focus of this conference/training event is to galvanize and equip UUs to 
more effectively address environmental justice issues in their congregations 
and communities and to continue to spur change from the "bottom up" within 
our denomination.

Specific Objectives:
1. To promote a deeper awareness/understanding of the concept of 
"environmental justice" among UUs.
2. To provide an opportunity for significant theological reflection, so that 
grassroots UU leaders can discern and/or more easily articulate their 
faith-based values and vision of "environmental justice", as well as the 
spiritual/theological/religious basis of their position.
3. To strengthen the existing national network of UUs interested in 
promoting more active work on environmental justice at various levels (e.g. 
congregational, community, state, and district).
4. To enhance grassroots/regional UU leaders' skills to promote 
environmental justice.
5. To resource grassroots leaders by providing the latest information and 
educational materials on key environmental justice issues, including those 
relevant campaigns and programs that are national priorities for the UUA, 
UUMFE, and UUSC.


Expectations of Planning Team Members:
* Must be available to actively participate in planning conference calls (at 
least some are likely to be during the day). (2-3 expected within the first 
4-6 weeks; then there may be a break of several months before they resume. 
Anticipated one or two more before conference and one post-event to do 
evaluation and follow-up).  Most work will be done by email, so we do not 
anticipate more than about 6 conference calls total.

* Must be available to actively participate in the conference/training 
event, including helping with various tasks at the event, as appropriate.

* Expected to actively promote/publicize the conference and help with 
recruitment/outreach for conference participants via emails, phone calls, 
personal contact, etc.

* Expected to respond to email queries promptly. We commit to using them 
judiciously and infrequently!

* For those people who are not staff of the UUA or a UU-related 
organization, travel expenses and conference registration will be paid by 
UUMFE.


UUMFE  National Environmental Justice  Conference/Training Event


PLANNING  TEAM   APPLICATION  FORM

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  November 17, 2006
E-mail this form to:  office at uuministryforearth.org


Name:

Mailing Address:


Phone:  day:
    evening:

E-mail address:


Your congregation (name and location):

____________________________________________________________________________

What does environmental justice mean to you?






If you have experience working on environmental or environmental justice 
issues, please describe briefly:






Why would you like to be on this planning team?






Are you a staff person or active as a member or volunteer with any 
UU-related organizations, caucuses
or other UU groups? If so, please list and describe your relationship:










What ideas do you have for ensuring greater diversity among participants 
than is often the case in UU
events?  How could you help us achieve this?







Are there other kinds of skills, experiences or sensibilities you would 
bring to this project that you
would like us to know about?








Please let us know the dates and time periods you are available in December 
to participate in conference
calls, if you are selected.  (This will help speed planning!):








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