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Ohio-Meadville District of the UUA |
Our new District Executive is Rev. Joan VanBecelaere. If you need to get in touch with Joan you can reach her at jvanbecelaere at ohiomeadville.org or by phone at 303-641-5896. If you need to call or send snail mail, please contact the district office.
This is Rev. VanBecelaere's article from the October issue of District Doings.
Friends,
Fall has arrived. And along with various forms of pollen, falling leaves and football, there is a new and energetic buzz in Unitarian Universalist circles.
By the time you receive this newsletter, your congregation will already have received a copy of a wonderful new DVD from the UUA titled "Voices of a Liberal Faith." This DVD can be used for new member classes or to introduce visitors to Unitarian Universalism. We are exploring if it might be possible to have this downloaded onto the Ohio-Meadville District web site <www.ohiomeadville.org> (see the home page). This DVD is just one part of the national media and advertising campaign by the UUA taking place this fall.
There will be ads from the UUA in Time magazine beginning the first part of October. Some of these ad graphics will be made available for congregations to download and use with the addition of the congregation's information. As part of the campaign, the OMD is purchasing several large outdoor banners (5'x15') that will be available on a rotating basis for congregations to hang outside their buildings. Two of our OMD congregational clusters are planning to sponsor a series of NPR radio ads in their areas. And the OMD web site has a new page filled with hospitality resources. There is more that will come out later this fall and winter.
Your UUA Fair Share and District dues dollars are contributing to this work. And the special collection funds from the Oct. 14 "Association Sunday" will enable the media campaign media outreach.) This campaign will enable many new people to find out about Unitarian Universalism and
our congregations. People will be looking for the web sites of our congregations here in the OMD and across the continent. New faces will be walking into our doors each Sunday.
And all this means that the question of the day has become: Are we ready to greet these new friends.
Rev. Joan Van Becelaere
District Executive
