Countdown to Ministry Days – Starts Tomorrow!

Welcome to Ministry Days! Struggling to keep track of all the changes in scheduling of GA and Ministry Days this year? We get it! And we are doing our best to make communications as clear and accessible as we can. MD is Wednesday – Friday this week, June 17-19. We don’t start before noon ET/9am PT each day. We have prepared a schedule by time zone and have more details to help you prepare to participate below. We wait the chance to be with you for as much of MD as you can make. Remember that the recordings are available as soon as they have processed in the event lobby so you can catch up on what you might need to miss.Ministry Days will be hosted through the Zoom Event platform. You will receive your personal link at this email address (that you used to register) in the next 12 hours. If you do not recieve receive a link by Wednesday morning please email support@uuma.org Time with UUA President and Executive Officers of the UUA As is our tradition, we will be joined by UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt and the Executive Officers of the UUA. To help shape a meaningful and responsive conversation, we invite you to submit questions in advance. Doing so allows the Executive Officers to prepare thoughtfully and bring the perspectives, information, and resources most relevant to our time together. We only have recieved one question so far so please send your questions for Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt and the Executive Officers to the UUMA Executive Team.Getting Support at Ministry Days Care and Covenant: You may reach a member of the Care and Covenant Team by phone at any time during our meeting (including during breaks) by calling 617-848-0498 extension 1. Should you have any trouble reaching a team member, please message or call Melissa Carvill Ziemer.We are grateful to our colleagues who are serving on our Care and Covenant Team for Ministry Days this year: Brian Ferguson, Catherine Ishida, Doug McCusker, Kristina Spaude, Madelyn Campbell, Michelle Pederson, Nick Sanchez, and Randy Partain.  Tech Team: During our programming we will have tech team volunteers in each Zoom session to help you with any tech needs you may encounter. One big way to help these folks out is by updating your zoom (how to do that here). You will be able to message the tech team both in the lobby chat before sessions and using the zoom chat during a session. For help accessing the zoom event please email support@uuma.org. We are so grateful to this year’s team: Joseph Cleveland, Deanna Vandiver, Jessica James, Margalie Belizaire, Mark Caswell, and Karen Fraser Gitlitz. We are also thrilled to be joined again this year by Sean Schuette as our event producer. Schedule Update for Thursday Immediately Following our Celebration of Ministry Service on Thursday – Celebrating our Outgoing Leaders Stick around after the Celebration of Ministry service to celebrate our leaders and staff completing their service. We appreciate Edith Love from the Nominating Committee, Wendy Bartel, Carol Thomas Cissel and Joseph Santos-Lyons from the UUMA Board of Trustees as well as Denise Cawley and Melissa Carvill Ziemer from the UUMA staff. Child and Family Support We know that balancing virtual event attendance with family needs can be overwhelming and we have your back. Check out more information about family and child care subsidies here.

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