UCC Women’s Celebration X - 2018 Mission Focus
UCC Women’s Celebration X - 2018 Mission Focus
We’re inviting you to join in this worthy Mission Project – Church World Service Hygiene kits!
This is the fortieth anniversary of UCC New England Women's Celebration. Come! Celebrate with us! There is “a seat at the table” for you!
Are you among the hundred people who are already registered? If not, please register above now to get into the workshops that appeal to you, to reserve a room at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland, ME and to get the discounted registration rate before the February 15th deadline.
So call, email, tweet or even stand up in church – Fill a car– fill a bus, do whatever it takes to reach out to everyone you know to be sure they also claim a "SEAT AT THE TABLE."
"Workshop selections are on a first come first serve basis. If you selected a workshop that is FULL, your registration will be stalled and you'll be asked to make another selection. So if your registration goes through - you got the workshops you selected." ____________________________________
If you are in need of an American Sign Languageinterpreter please register early and indicate so that we may accommodate.___________________________
We’re inviting you to join in this worthy Mission Project – Church World Service Hygiene kits!
This is the fortieth anniversary of UCC New England Women's Celebration.
Come! Celebrate with us! There is “a seat at the table” for you!
Are you among the hundred people who are already registered? If not, please register above now to get into the workshops that appeal to you, to reserve a room at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland, ME and to get the discounted registration rate before the February 15th deadline.
So call, email, tweet or even stand up in church – Fill a car– fill a bus, do whatever it takes to reach out to everyone you know to be sure they also claim a "SEAT AT THE TABLE."
"Workshop selections are on a first come first serve basis. If you selected a workshop that is FULL, your registration will be stalled and you'll be asked to make another selection. So if your registration goes through - you got the workshops you selected."
____________________________________
If you are in need of an American Sign Language
interpreter please register early and indicate so that we may accommodate.
___________________________
Schedule & Workshops
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Holiday Inn by the Bay
88 Spring Street
Portland, ME
IF you are having trouble with this online system please
call direct to Portland Holiday Inn by the Bay at 1-800-345-5050 and say
you are with the Women Leaders Conference or UCC. There are rooms
blocked for our event and they will take care of you.
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Special Request Rev. AbbyLynn Haskell has received some beautiful communion stories and
would love more! If you have had a meaningful experience with communion
would you please send your story to sabbaticalstories@gmail.com. Your story will go toward enriching the worship services during our celebration. Thank you! What is the New England Women’s Celebration? The purpose of the Celebrations is to reach women in the pews and to involve them in learning and sharing their faith beyond the local church and Conference setting. It is organized by women from United Church of Christ (UCC) congregations across New England, however women from all denominations and religious traditions are welcome to attend. Read more of our history.
Celebration XCoordinating Team
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Dorothy Pitman from New Hampshire says: Having missed only one of the Celebrations I am looking forward to attending Celebration IX in Portland. It is such a moving experience for me to be in the midst of hundreds of UCC women all singing, praying, and sharing together. An experience that I will forever remember. Marsha Sheehan from Saco, Maine, says: There was NO way I could give up a whole weekend to attend Celebration VII in Burlington! It was certainly not something that was feasible for me, a 37 year old wife and mother of two children with a full time job and many commitments within the church. With some coaxing by church friends Kris Galasyn and Laurie Mooney I was convinced to join a carpool of women from my church, and as the date approached I wondered what I was thinking -- how could I give up this much time? The ride from Maine flew by as Kris, Laurie, Lynne Siulinski Meredith Jordan and I shared stores and got to know each other better. From the moment I walked into the registration area I could feel the amazing spirit and energy. Nearly one thousand women: all there to grow and learn and worship. The weekend was filled with shining moments, useful information, inspiring messages. I returned to my husband, children, job, and church renewed in spirit and with a better sense of the wider UCC community. Liz Reed-Swale comes from Rock Hill, Connecticut: Around the time I graduated from college, my mother and I began the tradition of an annual mother-daughter retreat. It has been a wonderful way for us to move beyond simply filling each other in on our daily lives and really getting to know each other as adults. Mom invited me to Celebration VII after finding out about it at her church. What impressed me most was the planning that had to have gone into the weekend: our every want and need was anticipated and taken care of, from quiet time to discussion to snacking to supporting the global community. And the music! Singing with over 900 other women is a moving experience; I was in tears more than once throughout the weekend. There was time to take walks (though we had to wear long johns!), time to meet and chat with other participants, and time for just the two of us to talk and share. It was a powerful, strengthening three days. In the doldrums of a gray, cold winter, our experiences at Celebration VII made me feel alive and new, and that spring definitely was on its way. |
