History will be made when the next ICUU Council Meeting and Conference is held in February 2012 in the Philippines –for the first time outside of Europe and North America!
The Council Meeting and Conference will take place from 7 to 12 February 2012 at the headquarters of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines (UUCP) and at the Southsea Resort in Dumagute City on Negros Island, Philippines.
Click Here for Council Meeting and Conference Brochure & Registration Details
Recognizing that the level of local and personal resources could prevent some participants from attending ICUU Council Meetings and Conferences, ICUU is able to make a limited number of grants available to for attending the February 2012 ICUU Council Meeting and Conference.
Eligibility for these grants is limited to delegates from ICUU member groups and representatives from bodies officially recognized as emerging groups by the ICUU.
More information on the criteria and procedures for these grants can be found here:
Click Here for Sponsored Participant Grants Criteria and Application Procedures
Applications can be made using the form here to be submitted well before September 15:
Click Here for Sponsored Participant Grants Application Form
Persons applying to receive a grant SHOULD NOT use the online registration system for the Council Meeting and Conference.
IMPORTANT: Delegates or representatives from some groups may have received grants in the past without applying for them. In the interest of openness and fairness, all persons need to apply to be considered for a grant from ICUU.
As ICUU itself only has limited resources for such grants, there is no guarantee and there should be no expectation that any group or person will necessarily receive a grant.
If any groups or persons are able to make a donation to ICUU to help us increase the number of grants we can make for people to attend this important gatherings, it would be greatly appreciated and will have a real impact.
PLEASE contact Executive Secretary Steve Dick (execsec@icuu.net) or Treasurer David Shaw (treasurer@icuu.net) if you can assist in this way.
Any questions about the grants program and applications for grants can be sent to Steve Dick at execsec@icuu.net.
Unitarian Universalists of Christchurch
30 June 2011
International Council of Unitarian Universalists
c/o Brian Kiely
President
ICUU
Dear Fellow Unitarians,
Thank you for your recent $4150.00 donation to support our fellowship in recovering from the recent Christchurch earthquakes. We have received comparable unsolicited donations from the European Unitarian Universalists (EUU) and Auckland Unitarian Church.
The 22 February quake which devastated the city centre left our rented rooms off limits until early May, and caused substantial hardship to many of our members. We have allocated one-third of the funds received for emergency hardship grants to individual members. Our budget has never provided any sort of pastoral emergency fund, but thanks to the generosity of fellow Unitarians, our minister will now provide grants of up to $500 to hard-hit individuals who confidentially request this assistance.
The remaining funds have secured our budget to cover our modest near-term needs, and are likely to subsidize the costs of a retreat later this year outside of Christchurch for our members, and to support our increased participation in the upcoming ANZUUA conference.
When shaken to our core, we are reminded what our core is. Thank you for reminding us of the connection, the values and the friendship we share.
Kind regards,
Amy Gilman,
Chair, Management Team
Unitarian Universalists of Christchurch
The Summer 2011 issue of the ICUU Newsletter – The Global Chalice – has now been published and is available from the link below.
Please feel free to share it with others and we would encourage you to circulate it to your membership.
www.icuu.net/news/newsletters/Global_Chalice_0711.pdf
Best Wishes and Kind Regards,
Steve
___________________
Rev Steve Dick
Executive Secretary,
International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU)
Email: execsec@icuu.net
Phone: +44 20 84072866
Skype: stephenwd
Website: www.icuu.net
Twitter: ICUUinfo
This is the 95th in the monthly series of Global Chalice Lightings from the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, for use during June 2011. It is submitted in Kirundi, French, and English by the Assemblée des Chrétiens Unitariens du Burundi. Please see that this Global Chalice Lighting is translated, if necessary, and distributed as widely as possible within your group.
In faith,
-Lorella
Lorella Thomas Hess
editor, The Global Chalice
ICUU newsletter
www.icuu.net
Kirundi:
Guhura kw’abantu kugurura imiryango myiinshi
Kwinjira mu mico y’abandi no kugurikira uburyo bundi bwo gutahura no gukora ibintu.
Kwitaho abandi bica birakura muri twebwe umutima wokwitanga uturoresha kubandi mu kubitangira atakwikunda kugiyemwo.
Uno musi, muri aka gatondo, nitwatse iri tara ryo kugurukira abandi, yo gutangarira bishasha biduteza imbere eka mbere no gukorera hamwe gukomeye.
French:
La rencontre entre les peoples renferme des possibilités inattendues
Expériences culturelles et ouverture à de nouvelles façons de comprendre et de faire les choses.
L’attention à l’autre se développe et un esprit de détachement nous tourne vers l’autre dans un service désintéressé.
Aujourd’hui, ce matin, allumons une flamme d’ouverture à l’autre, de curiosité enrichissante et de coopération active.
English:
When people meet, endless possibilities emerge--
New cultural experiences and openness to new ways of understanding and doing things.
A special attention to the other and a sense of service beyond self develop.
Today, this morning, let us light the chalice for openness, willingness to grow, enriching curiosity, and active cooperation.
Fulgence Ndagijimana
Assemblée des Chrétiens Unitariens du Burundi
This is the 94th in the monthly series of Global Chalice Lightings from the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, for use during June 2011. It is submitted in French and English by the Eglise Unitarienne Francophone in homage to Norbert Capek. Please see that this Global Chalice Lighting is translated, if necessary, and distributed as widely as possible within your group.
Chaque fois que je vois une fleur, je pense à toi,
Chaque fois que je vois une fleur, je pense à nous,
Car nous assemblons les fleurs, n’est-ce pas ?
Pour qu’elles forment un éventail arc-en-ciel
Pour qu’elles fassent bouquets
Pour qu’elles fassent Eglise.
On dit que, dans ta Bohème natale,
Elles sont si nombreuses au printemps
tant belles et mutines
Qu’elles courent et dansent dans les prés
Célébrant la vie en farandole de liberté.
Each time I see a flower, I think of you.
Each time I see a flower, I think of us.
For we gather flowers, do we not?
So that they may bloom into a fan-shaped rainbow
and make up lovely bouquets,
making up the Church.
They say there are so many of them
in your native Bohemia,
so beautiful and lively,
that they run and dance in the fields
celebrating life in a frolic of freedom.
Jean-Claude Barbier
Eglise Unitarienne Francophone
