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Past Fall Conferences
Fall Conference 2011
The Conference officially begins on Thursday afternoon, October 20th and ends on Sunday, October 23rd at 10:30 am. Departing on Sunday morning allows full participation in the Conference since flights east out of Portland are generally early morning ones. There are additional days you might want to consider:
• If you are a Chapter President, Credentialing Mentor or Good Officer, meetings and trainings will be scheduled for Thursday morning, Oct. 20th.
Fall Conference 2010
Transforming the Jericho Road
As the author Michael Eric Dyson reminds us in Come Hell or High Water, the power in the Good Samaritan story lies in its transforming mindset –the “goodness” demonstrated by two people, a Jew and a Samaritan, born into and accepting of their respective privilege and oppression, engaging beyond those expectations on a lonely road to Jericho.
Fall Conference 2009
Click here to read Rev. Dr. Liz Strong's Odyssey.
CLick here to read her childhood beliefs.
Fall Conference 2008
Keynote speaker: The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker
Starr King School of the Ministry President, author and noted theologian, shared her vision of our Unitarian Universalist congregations as integrative, holistic sites that foster wholeness and liberation. Access information about her new book, Saving Paradise, from which she drew much of her address. (http://savingparadise.net)
Workshops
Fall Conference 2007
Unitarian Universalism is a transforming faith that is held in communities and in the hearts and minds of those who claim it. How can we provide programs across the lifespan that meet our need to seek meaning, to be held in love, to channel our passion for justice, and satisfy our quest to know more deeply the diversity and wholeness of our Unitarian Universalist faith?
Fall Conference 2006
The LREDA Integrity Team tempts you to prepare your heart and soul for the 2006 LREDA Fall Conference in Orlando, Florida. The topic is Linked Oppression. We will be looking at common threads that run through the many forms of oppression that prevail in our society today as we try to surface, name and grapple with the forces that prevent us from achieving the diverse communities we claim to want. To help us articulate our journey, we have invited Dr. William R.
Fall Conference 2005
Our presenter, Rev. Lawrence Peers has provided consulting and training to new and established congregations of various sizes, boards of trustees, nonprofits, judicatories, young adult conferences, and national denominational organizations across North America. He has served as a congregational development and growth consultant with a national denominational office, as a minister and as a religious educator in local congregations, as a therapist and as a program coordinator in a nonprofit agency.
Fall Conference 2004
Todd Strickland/Catherine Farmer: WAY COOL
Time Travel Worship Service
Way Cool Sunday School is an experiential RE format, incorporating regular Worship, Social Justice, and Arts Sundays as well as curriculum-based Classroom Sundays, all grounded in a common focus on our Unitarian Universalist principles and values. At its heart lies the conviction that children are best served when i