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District Assembly
Registration Now Open 
We're moving at full speed getting ready for this year's fantastic District Assembly! We've got over two dozen workshops, some great entertainment with Roy Zimmerman, special programming for children and youth, our annual reception for congregational presidents, Keynoter, the Reverend Robert Latham, and Featured Presenter, the Reverend Victoria Safford. Don't miss this one! We'll gather at the brand new Marriott Hotel in Fremont, CA, where we've been given a discounted rate of $89 for a single or double room (nice work, Chuck!). Hotel room reservations may be made online. Programming begins the evening of Friday, April 25, with the traditional Banner Parade and Opening Worship, and runs through Closing Worship on Sunday, April 27. DYGT (pronounced DigIt) - District Youth Groups Together, offers special programs to bring high school aged teens from all corners of the PCD together. They'll be games and activities to help get to know one another, along with a swim party (don't forget to bring your swim suit). Daycare and programming for nursery through teens are described on our website. We're looking for Volunteers
to help us pull it all off. These are short shifts, that won't require you
to miss out on the fun and the learning, and your service will be greatly
appreciated. Please contact District Administrator, Chuck
Rosene, (510) 601-1437, if you're willing to take on one of these
assignments:
Our theme, Simple Gifts, invites us to remember our core blessings, and to extend the gift of ourselves to one another. We are the ones who create, maintain, and bless our larger movement; we do it together. It will be a blessing to be together, at DA 2008! | ||||||
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Many thanks to photographer Harold Wood, for sending along this great shot showing the worship space of our 26-member Visalia congregation. This is the second of what I hope will be a 38-part series sharing these images with one another. Send yours, along with the name of the photographer to cilla@pcd-uua.org. | ||||||
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UUA Candidates for
President Open Their Campaigns 
Two fine candidates have officially thrown hats in the ring, announcing their intentions to run for the presidency of our UUA in 2009. The Reverend Laurel Hallman, who serves the First Unitarian Church in Dallas, declared her candidacy at a congregational meeting on January 6. The video of this announcement may be seen online. Her web site is at www.laurelhallman.com. The Reverend Peter Morales serves the Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, CO. His announcement came in his January 13 sermon, and the video is also online. His web site is at www.moralesforuuapresident.org. Candidates for the office of both President and Moderator are nominated by petition. This requires no fewer than 25 congregations, and no fewer than 5 congregations in each of 5 separate districts, to certify that a vote of their members or governing board has authorized their signing of the petition. Candidates must file no later than January 1, 2009. Per campaign procedures, a web page has been established for use in disseminating information about the elections to the congregations. | ||||||
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GA Housing Reminder - Housing registration for General Assembly opens at 8:30 a.m, Eastern Standard Time, this coming Saturday, March 1 . . .that's 5:30 a.m Pacific Time, and 3:30 a.m. Hawaiian Time. The closest and least expensive hotels can fill quickly so I encourage you to have your first, second and third choices all ready to go, and to register early. See our February 11 issue (yes! We are slowly getting old issues online!) for GA cost-saving ideas. Don't forget that all nominations for our annual Honor Awards are due by March 3, and entries into our annual Sermon Contest must be submitted by April 1. The staff of our UUA's Washington Advocacy Office have recently begun their own blog, with articles about UU social justice. It includes an interesting map, showing where their most recent readers are coming from. Today's visitors came included people from Jordan, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, and Romania. The Partner Church Committee of our San Jose congregation invites you to join them on Wednesday, February 27, from 8 to 10 pm, for an evening of Hungarian and Transylvanian culture. The event will feature a presentation and book signing by Stephen Sprinder, author of Ten Years in Transylvania and Budapest Through My Lens. Contact Monty Low, (408) 348-2778 for more information. In honor of International Women's Day, the Berkeley Fellowship will present Tillie Olsen-A Heart in Action, on Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m. This new documentary by Ann Hershey profiles the life of this renowned writer and activist. The Church of the Larger Fellowship is loaning copies of the multi-movement choral work, A Unitarian Universalist Cantata, with words by the Reverend Kendyl Gibbons, and music by the Reverend Jason Shelton. The work celebrates the six sources of our UU tradition, and is scored for SATB chorus, piano, strings and percussion. The 60-day loan is made possible for postage fees only, due to the generous support of the UU Funding Program and other sponsors. Perusal scores may be downloaded from www.jasonsheltonmusic.com. The Cantata will be performed at the Opening Ceremony of General Assembly 2008. For more information, contact CLF Librarian Beth Murray. | ||||||
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