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Making a Meaningful Worship Year
Rev.Susan Smith is the Stewardship and Administration Director for the Southern Region.
The Great Adventure
Connie Goodbread is a Faith and Leadership Development Director for the Southern Region. Connie has extensive training in Healthy Congregations and Systems Thinking. She is the Author of The Smart Church - a Unitarian Universalist systems approach in leadership and congregational development.
Multiculturalism in UU Leadership: Cross Cultural Empathy
What is Brown's take on peace-making and
social justice? "In a lot of ways
everyone is the same. People generally want the same things. We just have to
get to know each other."
Pastoral Care Training
Jennifer
Nichols, LMSW,
serves as a Faith and Leadership Development Director for the Southern Region.
She has worked for the UUA for 11 years, in UU churches for an additional
4. Before that she worked as a social worker,
providing counseling and care to families of chronically and terminally ill
patients. Training folks to live compassionate, covenant guided lives is her
passion.
Elandria Williams has been involved in activism and organizing since she was a youth, starting out organizing around getting rid of the Confederate flag and trying to end race riots in East Tennessee high schools. She presently works at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN on the Education Team. Prior to the Highlander, she was involved in popular education and organizing around anti-oppression, anti-racism, nonviolence, education eform, the prison military industrial complex, and inter-generational education and organizing with organizations including the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Elandria is a member of the Church of the Younger Fellowship and the Tennessee Valley UU Church in Knoxville, TN. She is an almost lifer and has served on a variety of committees on the local, district and continental level.
Administration of Religious Education
TBD
EvolUUtion Camp!
TBD
Kids will learn about evolution and take a fieldtrip or two to Dinosaur State Park and/or Fossil Rim Wildlife Park.
SATURDAY NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT
Julie Hazzard
Acoustic Rock from the 70s, 80s , 90s and Today!
Julie has been playing the guitar and singing since she was
teenager. She was lead vocalist for the
DFW band SoundZ back in the early 1980’s. After high school, Julie entered the
professional “real” world and didn’t get back to songwriting for about 10 years
– when she did some studio work and started making demo tapes of her original
tunes to shop around. Although she has
never been signed by a recording label, she has continued playing her original
songs and covers of what she calls “Acoustic Rock” in Coffee Houses (that
include Jefferson Freedom Café) and private parties around Arlington and Fort
Worth, Texas.
In 1999, Julie entered the Lilith Fair Talent Contest for a
chance to play on the small stage at that year’s Lilith Fair. She was chosen as one of the top 20 finalists
in the DFW area (and got a nice review in the Ft Worth Star Telegram!).
Julie and her partner are moms to two fantastic (and also very
musical) little girls, so the easy going musical life of coffee houses and
private events works out great for her to be able to share her music in a
family friendly atmosphere. She also
prefers the intimacy of these venues and seeing “up close” the enjoyment she is
giving her listeners.
To listen to some of Julie’s original work, go to www.myspace.com/juliehazzard or you can follow her on her website:
www.juliehazzard.com or
www.facebook.com/juliehazzardmusic