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The Central Midwest District is one of 20 districts working to further liberal religious values as part of the Unitarian Universalist Association. The district covers all or part of five states – Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Michigan and Indiana – and serves more than 80 congregations with over 12,000 members. Read more...
UUA Trustee's Report: UUA Elections
Written by Justine Urbikas, UUA Trustee   
Saturday, 16 August 2008
Justine Urbikas, UU Trustee Last month's article I touched on the UUA presidential election that we will be taking place at General Assembly in Salt Lake City June 24-28, 2009.  The UUA Board established that Trustees would remain neutral from supporting either candidate until the end of GA 2008.  That time has come and gone, a few trustees have announced their support for one candidate or the other, and a few others have participated in a discussion as to their thoughts and feelings about remaining neutral or not.

I thought I would use this time to explain my thoughts and the process through which I will be going through up until the election.  As a Trustee I not only will have a fair amount of opportunities for interaction with the two candidates, but I also spend a fair amount of time with other people who have worked with them in the past and know them well.  This positions me to learn a great deal about the candidates.
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Next Online Workshop Sept 11
Written by Ian Evison, Congregational Services Director   
Friday, 18 July 2008

Midwest UU Leadership The downturn in the economy, the rise in transportation costs, and the explosion in digital media has led many of you to challenge us to find ways to serve you with high-quality services through the internet. Oh yes, and you have also told us that you would like this to be free.

This is a fitting next challenge for us now that we have completed our project of making our office fully virtual. In addition, we know that-in going this direction-many of you will be wonderful companions on the journey, eager to learn from our experience and to share with us your experience. Many of you have told us that you are working on a myriad of related subjects whether it be new congregational websites, ways of conducting business through the internet or by conference call, or digitizing some paper records.

One of the really fun parts of working digitally is that it makes it easier to partner with colleagues in other districts.  Thus it is that we are pleased to announce that one of our first experiments in this initiative will be a series of online workshops later this summer and fall that we are co-sponsoring with Prairie Star and Heartland Districts. The first of these will be 7 PM [CENTRAL TIME] August 6 and 14. The August online workshops will offer ideas on getting your congregation ready for the fall. We have scheduled these for August because late summer and early fall are the most crucial time of year for membership. People seek out a new congregation at the same time of year that they get ready for school and sign of for classes as the local community center. When you start to see advertisements in the newspapers for school supplies, your congregation needs to be ready to greet visitors.

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Podcasts
Written by Gretchen Ohmann, communications coordinator   
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
We invite you to take a few minutes to visit our new PODCASTS page! Try the RSS feed button on that page to stay tuned for the latest from CMwD.
 
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