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David Glasgow:
Well, hello there.

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[CHEERING]

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Welcome to Providence.

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So tell me, how does
it feel to be sitting

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in a stadium full of
Unitarian Universalists?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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We're going to get things
rolling officially here in just

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a few minutes, but could
we do some singing first

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to get our juices flowing.

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I hope so.

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Sometimes it can be helpful,
as we take over a convention

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center full of 7,000
of our closest friends,

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to remember that what we are
really about is quite simple,

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love reaching out.

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Nothing more, nothing less.

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Would you join us in singing
the wisdom of this 18th century

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American Shaker hymn?

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We'll sing it once
in English and then

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we'll sing it again in Spanish.

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[MUSIC - "'TIS A GIFT TO BE
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[APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 1: It is easier
for love to reach out

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when it reaches out from
a place of gratitude.

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And friends, we have so
much to be grateful for.

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Please join us in
singing the timeless

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words of Folliott
Sandford Pierpoint,

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"For The Beauty of the Earth."

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[MUSIC - "FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE
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[APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 2: When we pour out
our hearts in gratitude,

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it makes room for the
spirit of love to enter.

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Let's sing together
a famous prayer

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by American Daniel
Iverson, as translated

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in our Spanish hymnal,
Las Voces del Camino.

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[MUSIC - "VEN, ESPIRITU DE AMOR"

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Speaker 3: When our hearts are
filled with the spirit of love,

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we find the strength
to draw wide circles

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of welcome, crossing boundaries
of fear and uncertainty

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until we can say
with confidence,

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hallelujah, we will sit
at the welcome table

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one of these days.

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David Glasgow: We might want
to rise in body or spirit

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for this one I think.

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Speaker 3: I think so.

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David Glasgow: Here we go.

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[MUSIC - "THE WELCOME TABLE"]

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David Glasgow: Amen.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Jim Key: I call to
order the 53rd General

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Assembly of the Unitarian
Universalist Association.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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I've been tweeting selfies.

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I would suggest you do the same.

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We're going to talk about
that a little later.

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Are you ready for a
great week in Providence?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Are you ready for yet more
inspiring music and worship?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Are you ready to sample
some of the 156 workshops

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to inspire you
and challenge you?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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And are you ready to participate
in the democratic process

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as our Association
conducts its business?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Do we have any governance wonks
in the assembly besides me?

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Oh, good.

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Oh, good.

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So the-- if you have the answer
yes to any of these questions,

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you're in the right
place at the right time.

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My name is Jim Key and this
is my first General Assembly.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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As your moderator, if this is
your first General Assembly

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just raise your hand and wave.

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How many people?

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Typical.

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Hands down.

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If you have been
here 10 or more GAs.

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Little thinner.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Good.

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How about 20 or more?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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I have it on good
authority, there's

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at least one couple
in the hall that

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have been here-- this is
their 30th General Assembly.

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Where would they be?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Where would they be.

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There they are.

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Back there.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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30 GAs and that's the
best seat you could get?

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Talk to me next year.

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Well, whether this is
your first or your 53rd,

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you're going to have
a great four days

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and it may be different than
what you've experienced before.

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The board, the staff,
GA planning committee

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have taken notice of
comments and evaluations

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from participants
from previous GAs.

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So you GA junkies will
have some changes to go

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through this week in
worship, in witness

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and in our general sessions--
the general sessions known

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as-- formally known as plenary.

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We have 11 fewer hours this
year in general sessions

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than last year.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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And this allowed us to
offer 48 more workshop

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opportunities then last.

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That's what you asked
for and we heard you.

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We've asked our presenters
to take less time

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with their reports and to link
their remarks to this year's

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theme of love reaches out.

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We've also asked them to
conduct their present-- connect

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their presentations to the
Association's global ands

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or shared vision
which hundreds of you

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have participated in crafting
over the past few years.

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And you can find them on page
100 in your program book,

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and I urge you to become
familiar with them

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as the week goes out.

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They are our North Star
guiding your Association

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into the future.

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Additionally, we've
asked our presenters

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to challenge us to think
about the issues facing

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this free and liberal
religion in this increasingly

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secular world, and
how we might learn

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from those new revelations we
expect to hear about this week.

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And we hope you
enjoy the GA talks

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that are sprinkled
throughout-- sprinkled

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throughout the general sessions,
like TED talks-- you know,

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the technology, education,
design talks that many of you

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are familiar with.

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We hope they introduce
ideas worth spreading.

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So before we start
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I want to call on the
Vice Moderator of your UUA

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board of trustees,
Donna Harrison.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Donna Harrison: Thank you, Jim.

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So Jim has asked me to do
one of the most fun things.

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One of the most rewarding
experiences each year

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at General Assembly is
welcoming new congregations

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into our UUA community.

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And starting a new congregation
is an extraordinary piece

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of work, an astounding
act of faith.

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It takes vision, courage,
leadership, patience,

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bureaucratic brilliance, jumping
over hurdles and through hoops.

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But most of all, it takes love.

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And the leaders that you
will meet in a moment

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have given all of this and more
to their dream of a Unitarian

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Universalist congregation
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And tonight we will welcome our
newest congregation, Original

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Blessing, into our association.

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And this brings-- yeah.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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And this brings the total
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in our Association to 1,048.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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So I would like Moderator
Key and President Morales

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to join me as we welcome
our newest congregation.

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And most congregations come into
being because local UUs work

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closely with district staff
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So it is my pleasure tonight
to ask the District President

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from the metro New York
district, Mia Morse,

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to introduce you to
your new congregation.

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And as Mia and the
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Blessing join us here,
let's roll a video

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that we have about Original
Blessing, our newest member

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congregation.

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[START VIDEO PLAYBACK]

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-At Original
Blessing, our mission

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is to transform the lives
of the 400,000 people

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who live in North Brooklyn
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-I think that there
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want for a spiritually
progressive voice.

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-Our sermons aren't based on
what's happening in a book.

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It's based on what's
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That's where we live.

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We're not living in a book.

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We're literally living here.

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-We don't have like a this
I believe and therefore you

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should believe this.

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-I find that there's a give
and take discussion of what God

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or the creator is.

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-Everybody finds that they
feel like they belong.

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-You don't have to be anything,
you just have to show up.

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-It's not like
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there are the only
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-It's a wonderful
place to interact

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with people without anything
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how are you today?

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-It's singing, it's dancing
and it is-- it's joy.

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[SINGING]

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-People say things like,
well, God loves and then

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you better change your life
or you're going to go to Hell.

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There is no experience
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would ever condemn you to Hell.

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-We're born with worth
and dignity and goodness

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that doesn't need to be heard.

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-We're born from
love and that's all

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we want for the
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-That's it.

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-All I wanted for us to
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go out and just love the
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-All of the things that
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can't be eliminated until
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that we're all interconnected
and that, in order

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for me to get somewhere,
I need to help everybody

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that comes into my path.

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-For me, Original
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spirituality through service.

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-I've never been a part of a
community like that before.

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It's always been
more like, someone

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should do something about that.

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And today I see that
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-How can I help make this a more
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place for other people to be.

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-When we move from,
oh, I want to pray

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to have a calm life or meditate
to have a calm life, to I want

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to meditate and pray for
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-It's not about me as an
individual becoming better.

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But I need to help
you, need to help me,

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and that it's as we figure
things out that we all grow

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and become more of ourselves.

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-I think I have escaped
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and disconnection.

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-I really had the desire
for us to be more connected

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in the ways we live
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-You know, being out
there and telling people

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that there's a greater
experience of love

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and we would love to
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[END VIDEO PLAYBACK]

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Mia Morse: My name
is Mia Morse and I'm

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a member of the Unitarian
Church in Summit, New Jersey,

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and president of the
metro New York district.

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I'm honored to present to
you the Reverend Ian White

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Maher and his board
member Robin Bossert.

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Original Blessing is our
district's first new church

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in almost 20 years, founded
in part with support

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from the First Congregational
Society of Brooklyn

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and our Chalice
Lighters program,

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and conducts Sunday
evening services

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At 5:00 PM in the northern
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in the community of
Greenport, New York.

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Sounds different,
right, already?

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The church was founded
by Reverend Ian White

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Maher, a true visionary that
has taken our principles

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to a new plane and put our
dreams in motion to create

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a church home for our
sisters and brothers

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that feels, acts
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As a growing family of 40 plus,
Original Blessing's mission

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statement reads, "We are a
spiritually ambitious movement

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seeking a relationship
with God in order

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to transform our world
through creative worship,

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social justice and
compassionate community."

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What's intriguing is
their aspirational model

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of membership encouraging
the idea of ambition

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as belonging to a
people who strive

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for a more deeply related world.

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Each developmental
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has meaningful goals, defined
stewardship and a path

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for leadership
development as a basis.

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This is definitely
a model that's

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appealing and key to attracting
new members with a clear plan

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for giving of time, treasure
and talent within the church.

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This six-core ministerial
areas of spiritual development,

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social justice, thought
leadership, earth, community

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and art.

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Before serving the community
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each must fall within
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further illustrating the
mantra, mission first.

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Moving worship, RE--
religious exploration-- member

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moving music,
thought leadership.

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Wow.

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Yes, you may see the
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at Kripalu or other retreat
centers sharing our values

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and growing our faith.

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When I think about
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I'm reminded of Martin
Luther King Junior's quote,

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"Life's most urgent question is,
what are you doing for others?"

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There's not a doubt in my
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is a blessing for others.

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So please keep your
eyes on the prize.

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We lovingly support you as you
embrace others and illuminate

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your light to
shine in the world.

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On behalf of the metro
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we express heartfelt
thanks to the UUA board

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of trustees for
welcoming Original

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Blessing and many thanks
to every member of Original

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Blessing, and to you, Ian.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Donna Harrison: And now it's
time for our banner parade.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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It's a time of ritual
and celebration

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in this historic city known
for brave and bold leadership.

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And to start us off,
we have a special treat

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that is pure Providence.

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Our grand marshal this evening
is a local anti-bullying

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activist and world renowned
traffic officer, Tony Lepore--

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[WHISTLE BLOWING]

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--whose celebrating
his 30th year

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as the Dancing Cop
of this fine city.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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[WHISTLE BLOWING]

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Wasn't that fun?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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And so let's let the
banner parade begin.

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Speaker 4: Good evening,
we're Emma's Revolution.

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This is Brother Sun.

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And we're so excited to be
with you here at UUGA 2014

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and to celebrate our
beloved Pete Seeger.

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[MUSIC - EMMA'S
REVOLUTION & BROTHER SUN,

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"IF I HAD A HAMMER"]

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 4: Pete Seeger was a
dear friend of ours and a great

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supporter of mine and Sandy's.

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And when I got the message
that he was in his final days,

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I went to his hospital bed
to spend a last few moments

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with him.

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It turned out those
last few moments

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were Pete's last moments.

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So we sang his songs to him.

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And in those moments,
as he peacefully passed,

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we thought of all the remarkable
ways that our lives intersected

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and how he shaped who we are.

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So this song started to be born.

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It has a chorus for you to ding.

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So please join us.

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[MUSIC - EMMA'S
REVOLUTION & BROTHER SUN,

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"SING PEOPLE SING"]

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 5: He's got
to get his guitar up.

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One of Pet's great songs
was "Turn, Turn, Turn"

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from the book Ecclesiastes.

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One, two, one, two, three, four.

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[MUSIC - EMMA'S REVOLUTION
& BROTHER SUN, "TURN, TURN,

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TURN"]

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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[MUSIC - EMMA'S
REVOLUTION & BROTHER SUN,

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"SWIMMING TO THE OTHER SIDE"

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Jim Key: What'd you think?

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Wasn't that fantastic?

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Great music, beautiful and
fanciful banners from all over.

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I've walked in that banner
parade a time or two.

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It's always fun.

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This was the most
orderly I think

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I've experienced, frankly.

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Thanks to the planners for that.

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Before I introduce
some folks to you

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that you need to know
for this evening, let

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me suggest you keep
your smartphones handy.

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We encourage you to tweet
if you are so moved,

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and you might want to
use the hashtag UUAGA.

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Some of you are already
familiar with it.

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So those of you
that are tech savvy

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can follow all the
commentary, photos,

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that sort of thing during the
course of the general sessions

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and other events
going on this week.

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And if you haven't
downloaded GA app,

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you might want to
do so now, quietly.

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And you can search the
AP store-- the app store

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for UUA General Assembly 2014.

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If you search for that
you can take it from there

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and get some help from
people beside you.

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I want to let you
fiddle with that

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while we proceed to
introduce some folks to you.

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So my pleasure this
evening is to introduce

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Unitarians, Unitarian
Universalists, interface

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and human rights partners
from around the world

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to our General
Assembly this year.

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And please be sure to
extend your welcome to all

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of our honored guests
during the week together.

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You can visit the international
booth in the exhibit hall

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to find out about events that
they'll be participating in.

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And we look forward to sharing
some more time with them

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during the general
session on Saturday

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morning as well where
you'll learn more

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about our international
affiliations.

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I'm going to introduce
some folks to you

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and I would ask that they
stand-- hold your applause--

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and stand as they're introduced.

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And I hope the cameras
can pan and catch them.

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They're mostly on this
side of the hall, just

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set people up for this.

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From Osaka, Japan, the most
Reverend Mitsuo Miyake,

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chief priest of the
Konko Church of Izuo,

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and his daughters the Reverend
Kauru Miyake and Izumi Miyake.

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Where are they?

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Over here.

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Welcome.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And you don't follow
instructions very well.

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We're glad to have them all, but
we want to wait till the end.

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Also from Tokyo, Japan,
Reverend Waichi Hashina,

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director of the social ministry
group from Rissho Kosei-kai

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with members of the RKK
external affairs staff joining.

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Miss Hiroyo Murayama
and Mrs. Ikuye Kase.

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From India-- from India,
leaders of the human rights

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organization
Shamrik Elgar-- this

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is the workers Push-- and
partners of the UU Holdeen

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India program-- Paromita
Goswamand and Kalyan Navan.

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From Transylvania,
Bishop David Gyero,

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counselor to the bishop of the
Hungarian Unitarian Church,

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the Reverend Karoly
Vass, assistant minister

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for the Unitarian Church
of Sepsiszentgyorgy,

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and Balazs Scholar at Starr
King School for the Ministry

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this past year.

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And two leaders of the
Women's Association

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of the Hungarian Association
Church, Gizi Nagy and Zsuzsana

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Szabo.

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From Kisii, Kenya,
Justine Magara,

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a lay minister of the
UU Church of Kenya.

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And from the Philippines,
the Reverend Tet Gallardo,

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minister of the Bicutan
UU Church in Manila.

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From Prague, Czech Republic,
the Reverend Petr Samojsky,

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minister of the Prague
Unitarian Church.

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And four members of his
church, Katerina Samojska,

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Michal Kohout, Marketa
Drtinova and Denisa Fialova.

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From North East India, the
Reverend Darihun Khriam,

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the minister of the Unitarian
Church in Smit and Kharang.

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And from the United Kingdom,
Derek McAuley, Reverend Richard

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Boeke, Reverend Jopie Boeke
and the Reverend Andy Pakula,

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chief officer and ministers
with the General Assembly

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of Unitarian and Free
Christian churches,

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and the Reverend Steve
Dick, executive director

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of the International Council of
Unitarians and Universalists.

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From Switzerland,
Laura Fuchs, leader

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of the UU fellowship of Basel.

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From Toronto, Canada,
the executive director

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of the Canadian Unitarian
Council, Vyda Ng.

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From Paris, France, the
president of European Unitarian

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Universalists, Dorcy Erlandsen.

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And from Germany, Logan
Deimler and Tina Huesing,

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vice president and social
justice chairperson

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for European Unitarian
Universalists.

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We welcome all of our
international guests

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and we're glad
you could join us.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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If there was-- if there was
ever any doubt in your mind

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that we are an
international movement,

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one of the interesting
things to me

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as the new moderator
over the first year

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are the emails and
Facebook postings

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I get from all over the world.

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We are truly international.

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It's a blessing to
have you all with us.

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I'd now like to
welcome and introduce

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Olivia Calvi and Owen Huelsbeck,
the co-deans of the Youth

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Caucus for this
General Assembly,

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and Hannah Roberts and
the Reverend Jonathan

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Rogers, co-facilitator
of Young Adults at GA.

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Please welcome them.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Owen Huelsbeck: Hello, everyone.

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Olivia Calvi: My
name is Olivia Calvi

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and I'm from Emerson UU Church
in Los Angeles, California.

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Owen Huelsbeck: And my
name is Owen Huelsbeck

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and I'm from Tahoma
Unitarian Universalist

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congregation of
Tacoma, Washington.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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We are the co-deans
of Youth Caucus

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here at General Assembly 2014.

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We have over 300 registrants
this year, seated over there.

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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And we cannot be happier
sharing our faith with you all,

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reaching out in love together.

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Olivia Calvi: We would
like to formally invite

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everyone of all ages to share
our space in the Waterplace

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Ballroom at the Omni.

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Owen Huelsbeck: And when we say
all ages, we really mean it.

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We'd love to see
every one of you

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here share our
space throughout GA.

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Olivia Calvi: Youth caucus staff
will be wearing pink buttons

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or bandanas throughout the week.

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Come up to us and talk to us
if you have any questions.

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Or if you just want to talk,
we love doing that too.

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Owen Huelsbeck: Last
year, when Olivia and I

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began planning for
General Assembly,

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we created a vision
statement that has guided us

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through the planning process.

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We want to share it
with you in hopes

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that it will help guide
you through GA as well.

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Olivia Calvi: We envision GA
2014 as a deeply spiritual

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and religious
community that provides

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the opportunity
for all generations

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to collaborate and
grow as leaders.

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Owen Huelsbeck: We
envision a gathering where

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people of all ages are
challenged, encouraged

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and equipped to live
their values in the world,

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reaching out beyond
themselves in service

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of a collective mission.

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00:46:04,631 --> 00:46:06,630
Olivia Calvi: We hope
that this vision statement

495
00:46:06,630 --> 00:46:08,520
helps you reach out in love.

496
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:11,590
We are so excited to be a
presence in this community

497
00:46:11,590 --> 00:46:13,240
and we hope you
join us as a caucus

498
00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:14,590
in celebrating our faith.

499
00:46:14,590 --> 00:46:15,826
Owen Huelsbeck: Thank you.

500
00:46:15,826 --> 00:46:25,050
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

501
00:46:25,050 --> 00:46:26,770
Hannah Roberts: Good
evening everyone.

502
00:46:26,770 --> 00:46:29,060
I'm Hannah Roberts,
co-facilitator

503
00:46:29,060 --> 00:46:34,135
of young adults at General
Assembly, or YA at GA.

504
00:46:34,135 --> 00:46:35,510
Reverend Jonathan
Rogers: And I'm

505
00:46:35,510 --> 00:46:40,440
Reverend Jonathan Rogers, GA
Talks program coordinator.

506
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,670
Hannah Roberts: Formerly
known as a Young Adult Caucus,

507
00:46:43,670 --> 00:46:48,350
our staff has been hard at
work designing programming that

508
00:46:48,350 --> 00:46:53,850
needs the diverse needs of
the multitude of identities

509
00:46:53,850 --> 00:46:59,370
and life experiences that
fall under the umbrella term

510
00:46:59,370 --> 00:47:01,530
young adult.

511
00:47:01,530 --> 00:47:04,930
We hope to be in conversation
with young adults

512
00:47:04,930 --> 00:47:08,450
about this shift throughout GA.

513
00:47:08,450 --> 00:47:12,910
This year's staff also includes
co-facilitator Nic Cable,

514
00:47:12,910 --> 00:47:17,060
our community engagement
coordinator Abigail Clauhs,

515
00:47:17,060 --> 00:47:19,312
and our worship coordinator
Christopher Watkins.

516
00:47:19,312 --> 00:47:20,770
Reverend Jonathan
Rogers: If you're

517
00:47:20,770 --> 00:47:23,380
looking for us during
general session,

518
00:47:23,380 --> 00:47:28,090
young adults have our own
seating section over there

519
00:47:28,090 --> 00:47:29,160
in the hall.

520
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:35,470
[APPLAUSE]

521
00:47:35,470 --> 00:47:38,780
Many young adults will
also be wearing ocean

522
00:47:38,780 --> 00:47:41,530
blue ribbons on their name tags.

523
00:47:41,530 --> 00:47:44,240
You can identify
the YA at GA staff

524
00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:46,780
by our ocean blue
bandannas, which

525
00:47:46,780 --> 00:47:51,030
we'll be wearing in some
fashion throughout GA.

526
00:47:51,030 --> 00:47:54,710
Hannah Roberts: We hope to see
all of you regardless of age

527
00:47:54,710 --> 00:47:57,120
during this General Assembly.

528
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:01,620
Love reaches out across
so many boundaries.

529
00:48:01,620 --> 00:48:05,760
And our goal is to facilitate
multi-generational and

530
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:10,130
multicultural community
throughout GA.

531
00:48:10,130 --> 00:48:12,690
Check out the program book
for the complete listing

532
00:48:12,690 --> 00:48:14,817
of YA at GA offerings.

533
00:48:14,817 --> 00:48:16,650
Reverend Jonathan Rogers:
Specifically, we'd

534
00:48:16,650 --> 00:48:20,330
like to draw your attention
to our series of GA Talks

535
00:48:20,330 --> 00:48:21,790
workshops.

536
00:48:21,790 --> 00:48:25,410
These three sessions will
give you the opportunity

537
00:48:25,410 --> 00:48:29,100
to engage with innovators
in our faith movement.

538
00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:31,160
Join us for the first
session tomorrow

539
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,850
At 12:30 PM in
convention center hall C.

540
00:48:35,850 --> 00:48:38,570
Hannah Roberts: Finally, we'd
like to invite you to the YA

541
00:48:38,570 --> 00:48:41,250
at GA opening worship tonight.

542
00:48:41,250 --> 00:48:44,860
This special collaboration
with the sanctuary Boston,

543
00:48:44,860 --> 00:48:48,870
will be at First Unitarian
Church Of Providence At 9:45

544
00:48:48,870 --> 00:48:50,160
PM.

545
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,040
All ages are invited
to worship with us.

546
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,725
See a YA at GA staff member
for more information.

547
00:48:56,725 --> 00:48:58,100
Reverend Jonathan
Rogers: We hope

548
00:48:58,100 --> 00:48:59,730
that each and every
one of you let's

549
00:48:59,730 --> 00:49:03,752
your love reach out in ways
you never imagined possible.

550
00:49:03,752 --> 00:49:05,210
Hannah Roberts:
And we look forward

551
00:49:05,210 --> 00:49:07,990
to spending these next few
days with you all and--

552
00:49:07,990 --> 00:49:10,627
[TOGETHER] Have a great GA.

553
00:49:10,627 --> 00:49:22,560
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

554
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:27,250
Jim Key: And again, a shout
out to the young adults at GA.

555
00:49:27,250 --> 00:49:30,070
We stole the GA Talk
from them and we've

556
00:49:30,070 --> 00:49:32,490
used them liberally
using their model.

557
00:49:32,490 --> 00:49:34,330
We really appreciate that.

558
00:49:34,330 --> 00:49:36,710
Now it's time to welcome
Patty Cameron who is here

559
00:49:36,710 --> 00:49:39,190
to tell us about accessibility
services at this General

560
00:49:39,190 --> 00:49:40,220
Assembly.

561
00:49:40,220 --> 00:49:41,730
The GA planning
committee and Patty

562
00:49:41,730 --> 00:49:43,430
have done a great
job over the years

563
00:49:43,430 --> 00:49:46,620
of making GA more and
more accessible to more

564
00:49:46,620 --> 00:49:48,276
and more people.

565
00:49:48,276 --> 00:49:55,260
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

566
00:49:55,260 --> 00:49:57,200
Patty Cameron: Welcome
to General Assembly.

567
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,410
My name is Patty Cameron
and it's my pleasure

568
00:50:00,410 --> 00:50:04,870
to coordinate the accessibility
services for General Assembly.

569
00:50:04,870 --> 00:50:07,820
I want to express my
appreciation to the GA planning

570
00:50:07,820 --> 00:50:09,890
committee for
allowing me this time

571
00:50:09,890 --> 00:50:14,430
to share with you how we can
all be in beloved community.

572
00:50:14,430 --> 00:50:19,260
All of us, including those
who use mobility equipment,

573
00:50:19,260 --> 00:50:23,480
listening devices, interpreters,
have chemical sensitivity,

574
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,260
assist dogs or need
special seating

575
00:50:26,260 --> 00:50:29,100
to accommodate for
vision or hearing.

576
00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:32,610
Our services are available
to anyone registered here

577
00:50:32,610 --> 00:50:34,950
at General Assembly
and our goal is

578
00:50:34,950 --> 00:50:38,070
to provide assistance
that allows everyone

579
00:50:38,070 --> 00:50:41,830
to participate fully
in General Assembly.

580
00:50:41,830 --> 00:50:45,590
I hope you'll take notice of
the accommodations available

581
00:50:45,590 --> 00:50:49,840
and bring these ideas back
to your own congregations.

582
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,830
And while you're here, please
pay particular attention

583
00:50:53,830 --> 00:50:58,070
as you pass along the halls,
navigate the Public Witness

584
00:50:58,070 --> 00:51:02,900
event, and attend worship
workshops together.

585
00:51:02,900 --> 00:51:05,440
Moving along the
hallways, remember

586
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:10,630
that people using scooters
don't have brakes.

587
00:51:10,630 --> 00:51:14,760
Please don't stop
suddenly to chat

588
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,960
because the person behind
you using a scooter

589
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,810
can't stop suddenly.

590
00:51:20,810 --> 00:51:25,120
Please reserve the elevators for
people with mobility or health

591
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,460
needs.

592
00:51:27,460 --> 00:51:31,290
I invite you to be with one
another this week in ways

593
00:51:31,290 --> 00:51:35,170
that allow you to practice
radical hospitality.

594
00:51:35,170 --> 00:51:40,690
Stretch your comfort
zone, enrich your spirit,

595
00:51:40,690 --> 00:51:45,660
open your heart a
little or a lot,

596
00:51:45,660 --> 00:51:49,870
and widen your field of
vision as you take all those

597
00:51:49,870 --> 00:51:54,570
around you whether
they walk or ride.

598
00:51:54,570 --> 00:51:57,530
We are all part of
this General Assembly,

599
00:51:57,530 --> 00:52:02,650
one beloved community, a
bright, wonderful community

600
00:52:02,650 --> 00:52:05,650
of people of all abilities.

601
00:52:05,650 --> 00:52:08,410
Be with each other in love.

602
00:52:08,410 --> 00:52:09,291
Thank you.

603
00:52:09,291 --> 00:52:17,470
[APPLAUSE]

604
00:52:17,470 --> 00:52:18,974
Jim Key: Thank you, Patty.

605
00:52:18,974 --> 00:52:19,640
How you feeling?

606
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:24,310
You all look great.

607
00:52:24,310 --> 00:52:25,040
You really do.

608
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,280
I can't imagine how
many we have in here,

609
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:29,450
but the hall is
really full, isn't it?

610
00:52:29,450 --> 00:52:31,870
Now I want to welcome the
Reverend Bret Lortie to tell us

611
00:52:31,870 --> 00:52:35,860
the important work
of the GA Chaplains.

612
00:52:35,860 --> 00:52:45,660
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

613
00:52:45,660 --> 00:52:48,340
Brett Lortie: Greetings
Providence General Assembly.

614
00:52:48,340 --> 00:52:51,940
Before I go into my prepared
remarks and introduce the team,

615
00:52:51,940 --> 00:52:55,570
I do have a bit of Chaplain
business to perform.

616
00:52:55,570 --> 00:53:00,110
We're looking for someone named
John Shonle from Milford, New

617
00:53:00,110 --> 00:53:01,100
Hampshire.

618
00:53:01,100 --> 00:53:03,480
And if I could meet
John immediately

619
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:08,410
after this segment right
over there by the tech deck,

620
00:53:08,410 --> 00:53:10,770
that would be great.

621
00:53:10,770 --> 00:53:11,460
So greetings.

622
00:53:11,460 --> 00:53:14,960
My name's Bret Lortie and
I'm the lead General Assembly

623
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,540
chaplain for this year.

624
00:53:17,540 --> 00:53:20,760
There are many chaplains
at General Assembly serving

625
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,280
many of our constituent groups.

626
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:27,540
Let me tell you what makes
the GA Chaplain core unique.

627
00:53:27,540 --> 00:53:31,780
We are the chaplains chosen by
the General Assembly planning

628
00:53:31,780 --> 00:53:36,480
committee available to
everyone 24 hours a day.

629
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,310
All of our chaplains
are ministers

630
00:53:38,310 --> 00:53:40,970
in full fellowship with
the Unitarian Universalist

631
00:53:40,970 --> 00:53:43,510
Association and we
come from a diversity

632
00:53:43,510 --> 00:53:48,720
that we hope reflects the
beauty of this gathering.

633
00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:53,150
Your GA chaplains offer several
services including we've

634
00:53:53,150 --> 00:53:56,740
got morning devotional
practices in the Blackstone Room

635
00:53:56,740 --> 00:53:59,190
at the Omni hotel
with posted hours

636
00:53:59,190 --> 00:54:02,290
for self-directed practice.

637
00:54:02,290 --> 00:54:05,000
Every day there will be
Scheduled Drop In Hours At 9:00

638
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:10,030
And 11:00, 2:00 and 4:00, 7:00
And 9:00 in the chaplain office

639
00:54:10,030 --> 00:54:12,960
room 550B which
we're now sharing

640
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,200
with the Right Relations Team.

641
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:21,252
We said we wanted to be closer
this year and, boy, we are.

642
00:54:21,252 --> 00:54:23,710
And we are going to be working
very closely with your Right

643
00:54:23,710 --> 00:54:24,590
Relations Team.

644
00:54:24,590 --> 00:54:27,540
We know that often a
breach of relationship

645
00:54:27,540 --> 00:54:31,400
needs or could use both an
institutional and a pastoral

646
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,800
response, and we
will strive to see

647
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,050
that both needs are addressed.

648
00:54:37,050 --> 00:54:39,390
You can spot your
GA chaplains roaming

649
00:54:39,390 --> 00:54:44,200
throughout the convention center
by our bright orange logos,

650
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,620
sporting the new UUA symbol.

651
00:54:47,620 --> 00:54:50,750
And even if you're not
needing to talk to a chaplain,

652
00:54:50,750 --> 00:54:55,340
feel free to pull us aside
and say hello or drop

653
00:54:55,340 --> 00:54:57,370
by the chaplain's office.

654
00:54:57,370 --> 00:55:01,890
We are here to serve this
gathering of beloved community.

655
00:55:01,890 --> 00:55:06,660
So please let me introduce
each of your 2014 GA chaplains.

656
00:55:06,660 --> 00:55:07,350
Jennifer Brooks.

657
00:55:07,350 --> 00:55:09,650
[APPLAUSE]

658
00:55:09,650 --> 00:55:13,430
We can-- we'll hold
applause til the end.

659
00:55:13,430 --> 00:55:20,360
Marisol Caballero, Beth Dana,
David Pyle and Julie Taylor.

660
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:25,316
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

661
00:55:25,316 --> 00:55:25,816
Thank you.

662
00:55:25,816 --> 00:55:36,664
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

663
00:55:36,664 --> 00:55:37,830
Jim Key: Thank you for that.

664
00:55:37,830 --> 00:55:40,360
And now it's time for me
to introduce and welcome

665
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,730
the co-chairs of your
2014 Right Relationship

666
00:55:43,730 --> 00:55:47,570
Team, Raziq Brown
and Mr. Barb Greve.

667
00:55:47,570 --> 00:55:48,488
Bring it on.

668
00:55:48,488 --> 00:55:56,954
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

669
00:55:56,954 --> 00:56:00,410
Raziq Brown: Good evening.

670
00:56:00,410 --> 00:56:02,650
We are the Right
Relationship Team.

671
00:56:02,650 --> 00:56:06,490
We exist to help all live into
our Unitarian Universalist

672
00:56:06,490 --> 00:56:09,020
covenant of care and love.

673
00:56:09,020 --> 00:56:12,680
As we lean into creating a more
just and sustainable community

674
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,830
that counters
oppressions, we call forth

675
00:56:14,830 --> 00:56:18,902
our compassion,
wholeness and liberation.

676
00:56:18,902 --> 00:56:20,360
The Right Relationship
Team is here

677
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,650
to help us stay in healthy
relationship with one another.

678
00:56:23,650 --> 00:56:25,590
Our role is twofold.

679
00:56:25,590 --> 00:56:27,990
One, if you find yourself
out of relationship

680
00:56:27,990 --> 00:56:29,840
with other attendees
of the assembly

681
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,640
and would like help returning
to right relationship,

682
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,110
we will help you
directly address

683
00:56:34,110 --> 00:56:36,830
those with whom you are
out of relationship.

684
00:56:36,830 --> 00:56:39,450
And two, the RRT
will pay attention

685
00:56:39,450 --> 00:56:42,820
to the multiple and intersecting
realities of injustice,

686
00:56:42,820 --> 00:56:45,540
suffering and
oppression in our lives,

687
00:56:45,540 --> 00:56:47,570
noting the places
where we do well

688
00:56:47,570 --> 00:56:51,030
and the places we need to
continue to pay attention.

689
00:56:51,030 --> 00:56:54,470
To live in right relationship
takes effort and practice.

690
00:56:54,470 --> 00:56:56,390
As a religious
community, all of us

691
00:56:56,390 --> 00:56:59,270
here must be committed to
stay engaged with one another,

692
00:56:59,270 --> 00:57:01,400
to listen carefully
to one another,

693
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,970
to remain curious and open
to learning about the ways

694
00:57:03,970 --> 00:57:08,360
our words and actions
impact those around us.

695
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,180
This work can be challenging.

696
00:57:10,180 --> 00:57:12,030
It requires that
sometimes we let

697
00:57:12,030 --> 00:57:15,470
go of our need to be
right and instead embrace

698
00:57:15,470 --> 00:57:17,970
a state of unknowing.

699
00:57:17,970 --> 00:57:23,105
But this is the work our
faith calls us to do.

700
00:57:23,105 --> 00:57:25,060
Barb Greve: To be in
right relationship

701
00:57:25,060 --> 00:57:28,540
means we have to be forgiving
when we make mistakes

702
00:57:28,540 --> 00:57:31,970
and trust the best intentions
of those around us.

703
00:57:31,970 --> 00:57:34,170
Because we are
human and fallible,

704
00:57:34,170 --> 00:57:35,830
we can also trust
that there will

705
00:57:35,830 --> 00:57:38,420
be times when we make mistakes.

706
00:57:38,420 --> 00:57:40,010
This is OK.

707
00:57:40,010 --> 00:57:42,480
Being in right
relationship also means

708
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:46,620
that at times admitting that
we don't know everything.

709
00:57:46,620 --> 00:57:50,370
It might even mean apologizing
for saying or doing something

710
00:57:50,370 --> 00:57:54,240
that we didn't realize
would hurt someone else.

711
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:58,440
A simple acknowledgement of
the situation is pure gold.

712
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,510
In my opinion, it
diffuses tension

713
00:58:01,510 --> 00:58:05,330
and makes people feel that
they have been heard, respected

714
00:58:05,330 --> 00:58:07,840
and understood.

715
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:09,770
You can always find
us because we'll

716
00:58:09,770 --> 00:58:13,820
be wearing these
bright orange shirts.

717
00:58:13,820 --> 00:58:17,720
Our phone number is in your
program book and the GA app,

718
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:21,050
And Our Office Hours
Are 11:00 Am To 2:00 PM

719
00:58:21,050 --> 00:58:26,430
in the chaplain's office,
convention center room 550B.

720
00:58:26,430 --> 00:58:29,560
Remember that we are
here to help you directly

721
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,070
address each other and
we will help facilitate

722
00:58:32,070 --> 00:58:35,530
direct conversations if you
feel like your relationship has

723
00:58:35,530 --> 00:58:37,370
been broken.

724
00:58:37,370 --> 00:58:40,500
Our team this year is led
by Raziq Brown, member

725
00:58:40,500 --> 00:58:43,010
of the First Jefferson
Unitarian Universalist Church

726
00:58:43,010 --> 00:58:46,440
in Fort Worth, Texas, an avid
writer and a smart church

727
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,710
consultant for the
UUA southern region.

728
00:58:49,710 --> 00:58:52,160
And myself, Mr. Barb
Greve, interim director

729
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,800
of religious education to
the Unitarian Universalist

730
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,050
Congregation of
Atlanta, Georgia,

731
00:58:57,050 --> 00:58:59,050
member of the Star King
School for the Ministry

732
00:58:59,050 --> 00:59:02,830
Board of Trustees and co-founder
of TRUST-- Transgender

733
00:59:02,830 --> 00:59:07,120
Religious Unitarian
Universalists Together.

734
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,230
We are delighted to have the
following wonderful folks

735
00:59:10,230 --> 00:59:12,020
on our team this year.

736
00:59:12,020 --> 00:59:14,280
Meghan Cefalu,
assistant minister

737
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,270
for congregational
engagement and pastoral

738
00:59:16,270 --> 00:59:18,240
care at the First
Unitarian Society

739
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,130
in Newton, Massachusetts.

740
00:59:20,130 --> 00:59:23,460
Ben Gabel, office administrator
at Northwest Unitarian

741
00:59:23,460 --> 00:59:25,170
Universalist Church
in Southfield,

742
00:59:25,170 --> 00:59:28,440
Michigan, and a lay leader at
Birmingham Unitarian Church

743
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,710
in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

744
00:59:30,710 --> 00:59:34,430
Elandria Williams, member of
the Tennessee Valley UU Church

745
00:59:34,430 --> 00:59:36,890
who is on the UUA
presidential search committee

746
00:59:36,890 --> 00:59:39,860
and on the advisory committee
for the Fahs Fellowship-- Fahs

747
00:59:39,860 --> 00:59:40,910
Collaborative.

748
00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:43,120
Elandria also works on
the Highlander Research

749
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,120
and Education team.

750
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:47,110
Halcyon Westall,
assistant director

751
00:59:47,110 --> 00:59:49,240
at the Fahs collaborative,
a Laboratory

752
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:50,800
for Leaders in
Faith and Learning

753
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,020
based at Meadville Lombard
Theological School.

754
00:59:54,020 --> 00:59:56,200
Tessie Mandeville,
palliative care chaplain

755
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:58,280
in Atlanta, Georgia,
and until recently,

756
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,020
the pastoral care coordinator
at the UU congregation

757
01:00:01,020 --> 01:00:02,940
of Atlanta, Georgia.

758
01:00:02,940 --> 01:00:05,220
Elizabeth Mount from
the UU congregation

759
01:00:05,220 --> 01:00:08,120
of Asheville, North Carolina,
and a first year seminarian

760
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:10,370
at Meadville Lombard.

761
01:00:10,370 --> 01:00:12,500
Lisa Bovee-Kemper,
associate minister

762
01:00:12,500 --> 01:00:14,450
at the UU congregation
of Asheville,

763
01:00:14,450 --> 01:00:18,959
North Carolina and very active
in the Moral Monday movement.

764
01:00:18,959 --> 01:00:23,700
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

765
01:00:23,700 --> 01:00:26,110
Ila Klion, from
Lauderhill, Florida

766
01:00:26,110 --> 01:00:28,520
and a member of Church
of the Larger Fellowship.

767
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,790
Ila is a member of the
GA planning committee

768
01:00:30,790 --> 01:00:35,450
and our liaison
to that committee.

769
01:00:35,450 --> 01:00:38,170
Phoebe Masterson-Eckhart,
member of the First Unitarian

770
01:00:38,170 --> 01:00:40,470
Universalist Society
San Francisco

771
01:00:40,470 --> 01:00:46,280
and one of our youth
caucus chaplains.

772
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:49,040
Last but not least, Oliver
Evans from the UU Church

773
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,798
of Akron, Ohio and our
other youth chaplain.

774
01:00:51,798 --> 01:00:57,960
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

775
01:00:57,960 --> 01:00:59,670
We are here to serve you.

776
01:00:59,670 --> 01:01:02,770
Find us in our office hours,
call us or grab us any time

777
01:01:02,770 --> 01:01:05,797
we're wearing our orange shirts.

778
01:01:05,797 --> 01:01:18,762
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

779
01:01:18,762 --> 01:01:19,970
Jim Key: They do [INAUDIBLE].

780
01:01:19,970 --> 01:01:21,030
We thank them.

781
01:01:21,030 --> 01:01:22,400
How's the Twitter feed going?

782
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,640
I've just done totally dead.

783
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:26,200
How's it going?

784
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:27,200
We tweeting out there?

785
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:28,000
Excellent.

786
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,630
Excellent.

787
01:01:31,630 --> 01:01:36,740
Let me find my place here.

788
01:01:36,740 --> 01:01:40,470
We have one singular
item of business

789
01:01:40,470 --> 01:01:43,400
for tonight in tonight's
general session

790
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,330
that requires the
delegates to vote,

791
01:01:45,330 --> 01:01:47,970
is the adoption of the
rules or procedures

792
01:01:47,970 --> 01:01:49,830
for this General Assembly.

793
01:01:49,830 --> 01:01:52,210
So start fumbling for
those yellow voting cards,

794
01:01:52,210 --> 01:01:55,160
you're going to
need them in a bit.

795
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,620
And you governance
wonks, listen up.

796
01:01:57,620 --> 01:01:58,950
This is important.

797
01:01:58,950 --> 01:02:02,500
The proposed rules of procedure
can be found on pages 84

798
01:02:02,500 --> 01:02:06,330
through 86 of the final
agenda of the program book.

799
01:02:06,330 --> 01:02:09,180
These rules will govern our
consideration other than voting

800
01:02:09,180 --> 01:02:11,260
upon the business
items that come

801
01:02:11,260 --> 01:02:14,280
before us during our
general sessions together.

802
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,270
The rules are largely the
same as in previous years.

803
01:02:17,270 --> 01:02:19,310
There are a couple
of rules that I

804
01:02:19,310 --> 01:02:22,090
want to direct
your attention to.

805
01:02:22,090 --> 01:02:24,320
They challenge
questions every year.

806
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:26,760
Please note that
rule five provides

807
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:30,020
that no amendments to a
business resolution, a bylaw

808
01:02:30,020 --> 01:02:33,700
change or a rule change will
be in order unless submitted

809
01:02:33,700 --> 01:02:37,276
for consideration at the
mini assembly for that item.

810
01:02:37,276 --> 01:02:39,150
So you'll want to pay
attention to the agenda

811
01:02:39,150 --> 01:02:41,730
and when those mini
assemblies occur.

812
01:02:41,730 --> 01:02:44,620
Also, please note
that rule two provides

813
01:02:44,620 --> 01:02:48,820
that, unless the Association's
bylaws otherwise require action

814
01:02:48,820 --> 01:02:53,370
on all matters, will be decided
by an uncounted show of voting

815
01:02:53,370 --> 01:02:57,350
cards or by an
uncounted standing vote.

816
01:02:57,350 --> 01:03:00,430
A vote will be counted
only in two instances.

817
01:03:00,430 --> 01:03:02,590
If there's a doubt about
the outcome of a vote,

818
01:03:02,590 --> 01:03:04,786
I will call for a count.

819
01:03:04,786 --> 01:03:08,100
A count will also be taken
if so requested by a delegate

820
01:03:08,100 --> 01:03:12,474
and if 99 other delegates
join the request.

821
01:03:12,474 --> 01:03:13,890
In either instance,
the count will

822
01:03:13,890 --> 01:03:16,130
be made by the tellers who
are present on the floor

823
01:03:16,130 --> 01:03:18,360
of the assembly,
and they are wearing

824
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:22,730
those highly fashionable
and very visible vests.

825
01:03:22,730 --> 01:03:25,070
Hi, Denise, how are you?

826
01:03:25,070 --> 01:03:28,860
In addition, rule seven provides
that separate microphones

827
01:03:28,860 --> 01:03:33,030
will be designated as pro
and con for discussion

828
01:03:33,030 --> 01:03:38,060
of proposed bylaw amendments,
rules, resolutions or actions.

829
01:03:38,060 --> 01:03:42,780
The pro microphone is up
front on the-- your right.

830
01:03:42,780 --> 01:03:46,330
The con microphone is
up front on your left.

831
01:03:46,330 --> 01:03:47,420
Thank you, Vanna.

832
01:03:47,420 --> 01:03:49,360
There is also an
amendment microphone

833
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:53,360
which has been placed at the
front of the arena over here

834
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,340
and procedural microphone which
has been placed immediately

835
01:03:56,340 --> 01:03:59,130
in front of me, there.

836
01:03:59,130 --> 01:04:02,040
Please note that the points of
personal privilege and points

837
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:05,930
of information must be made
from the procedural mic

838
01:04:05,930 --> 01:04:10,130
not from the pro
mic or the con mic.

839
01:04:10,130 --> 01:04:13,760
This way, only delegates may
speak from the microphones

840
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:17,460
except by express
permission of the moderator.

841
01:04:17,460 --> 01:04:19,310
And that would be me.

842
01:04:19,310 --> 01:04:22,110
I strongly urge those of you who
are attending General Assembly

843
01:04:22,110 --> 01:04:24,190
general sessions
for the first time

844
01:04:24,190 --> 01:04:26,400
to read the rules of procedure.

845
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:30,140
Particularly, look at rule
six on page 84 of the rules

846
01:04:30,140 --> 01:04:33,460
so that you understand
the time limits in effect.

847
01:04:33,460 --> 01:04:35,690
No person may
speak on any motion

848
01:04:35,690 --> 01:04:37,470
for more than two minutes.

849
01:04:37,470 --> 01:04:39,780
And the timers do not lie.

850
01:04:39,780 --> 01:04:42,930
30 minutes is the time allowed
for discussion of any proposed

851
01:04:42,930 --> 01:04:46,330
bylaw amendment, rule
change, resolution or action

852
01:04:46,330 --> 01:04:51,080
on a report that is on or
admitted to the final agenda.

853
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:53,722
There will be testing
on this at midnight.

854
01:04:53,722 --> 01:04:55,180
Before proceeding
with our business

855
01:04:55,180 --> 01:04:57,680
I want to introduce you to
Tom Bean, our legal counsel

856
01:04:57,680 --> 01:04:58,810
and parliamentarian.

857
01:04:58,810 --> 01:05:01,480
And he is sitting--
standing-- on my left here.

858
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,336
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

859
01:05:04,336 --> 01:05:05,770
Tom Bean: Thank you, Jim.

860
01:05:05,770 --> 01:05:06,895
Jim Key: So we're good?

861
01:05:06,895 --> 01:05:07,395
We're good?

862
01:05:07,395 --> 01:05:08,269
Tom Bean: We're good.

863
01:05:08,269 --> 01:05:09,240
Jim Key: We're good.

864
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:13,390
So will the vice moderator
make the appropriate motion

865
01:05:13,390 --> 01:05:15,070
with respect to the
rules of procedure.

866
01:05:15,070 --> 01:05:16,028
Donna Harrison: I will.

867
01:05:16,028 --> 01:05:17,870
Jim Key: Thank you.

868
01:05:17,870 --> 01:05:20,660
Donna Harrison: Moved,
that the rules of procedure

869
01:05:20,660 --> 01:05:25,100
of this General Assembly, as
set forth in full on pages 84

870
01:05:25,100 --> 01:05:32,336
through 86 of the final
agenda be adopted.

871
01:05:32,336 --> 01:05:33,460
Jim Key: Is there a second?

872
01:05:33,460 --> 01:05:34,353
Audience: Second.

873
01:05:34,353 --> 01:05:35,103
Jim Key: Oh, good.

874
01:05:35,103 --> 01:05:36,330
Oh, good.

875
01:05:36,330 --> 01:05:41,210
Does anybody want to
discuss the rules?

876
01:05:41,210 --> 01:05:44,620
There being no discussion
of the rules or procedure,

877
01:05:44,620 --> 01:05:47,850
discussion is now closed and
a vote would be in order.

878
01:05:47,850 --> 01:05:50,670
All those in favor of adopting
the rules of procedure,

879
01:05:50,670 --> 01:05:53,610
this is it, raise
those yellow cards.

880
01:05:53,610 --> 01:05:55,700
Oh, I think this
is going to carry.

881
01:05:55,700 --> 01:05:57,520
Cards down.

882
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,010
All those opposed.

883
01:06:00,010 --> 01:06:05,720
And do we have anybody
in the off site queue?

884
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:07,690
We might.

885
01:06:07,690 --> 01:06:11,370
But I don't think they
can overcome the votes.

886
01:06:11,370 --> 01:06:14,770
So I declare that the
rules are approved.

887
01:06:14,770 --> 01:06:17,070
So the motion carries.

888
01:06:17,070 --> 01:06:26,920
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

889
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,800
There being no further business
to come before us in accordance

890
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:32,230
with the schedule set
forth in your program book,

891
01:06:32,230 --> 01:06:35,280
I declare that this general
session of the General Assembly

892
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:39,070
Shall Stand In Recess Until
9:15 tomorrow morning.

893
01:06:39,070 --> 01:06:40,052
[GAVEL BANGS]

894
01:06:40,052 --> 01:06:44,970
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

895
01:06:44,970 --> 01:06:47,700
But I'm not through.

896
01:06:47,700 --> 01:06:49,850
To prepare for tonight's
worship service-- I warned

897
01:06:49,850 --> 01:06:52,570
you earlier we were going to
use our phones-- the first

898
01:06:52,570 --> 01:06:54,440
of its kind in
General Assembly--

899
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:57,110
not the phone, the
worship service--

900
01:06:57,110 --> 01:06:59,800
rather than turning off your
cellphone or smartphone,

901
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:03,430
we ask you to silence them
or put them in airplane mode.

902
01:07:03,430 --> 01:07:04,330
But keep them on.

903
01:07:04,330 --> 01:07:06,270
If you have a
smartphone you may want

904
01:07:06,270 --> 01:07:09,360
an app such as the
UUA Illuminations

905
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:15,390
app or the Chalice Lighters
app, or just a candle or flame.

906
01:07:15,390 --> 01:07:17,020
Whatever you've got.

907
01:07:17,020 --> 01:07:20,320
If you can't find an app and
there's nobody next to you

908
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:23,170
to help you download an
app, just hold up your phone

909
01:07:23,170 --> 01:07:25,090
at the appropriate
time and your phone

910
01:07:25,090 --> 01:07:28,810
will emit some sort of light
that will help with the effect.

911
01:07:28,810 --> 01:07:32,250
Our ushers have given out
electric or battery candles

912
01:07:32,250 --> 01:07:34,730
to those who don't have
cellphones or choose

913
01:07:34,730 --> 01:07:36,340
not to use them in this way.

914
01:07:36,340 --> 01:07:38,570
And I must admit, I
don't have any juice

915
01:07:38,570 --> 01:07:41,710
so I'll need a candle.

916
01:07:41,710 --> 01:07:43,270
Our worship leaders
will signal us

917
01:07:43,270 --> 01:07:46,470
when it's time to
get your apps on.

918
01:07:46,470 --> 01:07:48,880
This is not that time.

919
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:50,420
For now, please
silence your phone,

920
01:07:50,420 --> 01:07:54,970
put it on an airplane mode and
come with me and Brother Sun

921
01:07:54,970 --> 01:07:59,899
as we move into a time of
celebration and reverence.

922
01:07:59,899 --> 01:12:40,070
[MUSIC - BROTHER SUN, "COME WITH
 ME"]

923
01:12:40,070 --> 01:12:52,540
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

924
01:12:52,540 --> 01:12:54,740
Reverend Peter Morales:
Out of cosmic dust

925
01:12:54,740 --> 01:12:58,540
and by ancient waters,
the people gather.

926
01:12:58,540 --> 01:13:03,590
Across land and sea we have
traveled to this space,

927
01:13:03,590 --> 01:13:09,740
forming for a time in Providence
a community of leadership

928
01:13:09,740 --> 01:13:11,590
and learning.

929
01:13:11,590 --> 01:13:14,670
Jim Key: We are assembled as
one body to grow our religion,

930
01:13:14,670 --> 01:13:17,710
cross the borders
of our imagination

931
01:13:17,710 --> 01:13:19,177
and reach out in love.

932
01:13:19,177 --> 01:13:21,010
Reverend Peter Morales:
May this celebration

933
01:13:21,010 --> 01:13:26,070
be a blessing from hand to
hand and heart to heart.

934
01:13:26,070 --> 01:13:29,970
May our being together
matter to the world

935
01:13:29,970 --> 01:13:35,444
as we embrace our lamentations
and our deepest blackness.

936
01:13:35,444 --> 01:13:37,360
Jim Key: Whether you are
gathered with us here

937
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,530
in Providence or beyond
this arena's walls,

938
01:13:40,530 --> 01:13:43,320
by virtue and
virtual live stream,

939
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:45,850
please rise in body
or spirit to reach out

940
01:13:45,850 --> 01:13:49,370
in love and our common
call to worship.

941
01:13:49,370 --> 01:13:53,332
Please briefly greet
your closest neighbor.

942
01:13:53,332 --> 01:14:33,346
[CROWD NOISE]

943
01:14:33,346 --> 01:14:51,497
[SINGING]

944
01:14:51,497 --> 01:14:52,830
Reverend Erika Hewitt: Jubilate.

945
01:14:52,830 --> 01:14:54,930
Sing it with me?

946
01:14:54,930 --> 01:14:56,890
[SINGING]

947
01:14:56,890 --> 01:15:04,040
It means rejoice in Latin,
the liturgical language

948
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:07,660
of the religious tradition
from which Universalism

949
01:15:07,660 --> 01:15:10,430
and Unitarianism arose.

950
01:15:10,430 --> 01:15:14,650
When you see it on the screen
it won't look like jubilate

951
01:15:14,650 --> 01:15:16,690
so let's say it again.

952
01:15:16,690 --> 01:15:18,165
[ALL] Jubilate.

953
01:15:18,165 --> 01:15:19,790
Reverend Erika Hewitt:
And even better,

954
01:15:19,790 --> 01:15:25,255
let's repeat the singing
after our singers.

955
01:15:25,255 --> 01:15:45,570
[SINGING]

956
01:15:45,570 --> 01:15:47,880
Reverend Erika Hewitt: Ours
is a hymn of the evening.

957
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:50,180
It's words were
written in the 1800s

958
01:15:50,180 --> 01:15:54,690
by Unitarian minister
Samuel Longfellow.

959
01:15:54,690 --> 01:15:58,460
While we are gathered,
this refulgent summer day

960
01:15:58,460 --> 01:16:01,180
is slipping toward twilight.

961
01:16:01,180 --> 01:16:05,710
As we worship, the sky will
turn from blue to indigo,

962
01:16:05,710 --> 01:16:10,040
pulling a cloak of
darkness and stars over us.

963
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:12,540
Those stars will
stand guard all night

964
01:16:12,540 --> 01:16:16,480
while our excited hearts
try to find sleep.

965
01:16:16,480 --> 01:16:22,096
Let us rise in body or in spirit
and sing the night toward us.

966
01:16:22,096 --> 01:19:22,840
[MUSIC - "NOW ON LAND AND SEA
 DESCENDING"]

967
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:33,017
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

968
01:19:33,017 --> 01:19:34,850
Reverend Michelle
Favreault: Around the time

969
01:19:34,850 --> 01:19:38,910
when I was born, my dad
was serving in the Navy

970
01:19:38,910 --> 01:19:43,900
on a ship out of Quonset Point
at the port of Davisville

971
01:19:43,900 --> 01:19:49,670
about 20 miles away from
here down the Old Post Road.

972
01:19:49,670 --> 01:19:55,420
As a child I found my most
important spiritual practice

973
01:19:55,420 --> 01:20:02,040
in watching the stars that guide
sailors, ritualizing my wishes,

974
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:05,580
my prayers for good
things and niceties

975
01:20:05,580 --> 01:20:08,980
by the first of the
distant lights shining

976
01:20:08,980 --> 01:20:13,110
in the spirit's skies.

977
01:20:13,110 --> 01:20:17,010
I grew up paying attention
to the motions and cycles

978
01:20:17,010 --> 01:20:21,380
of the cosmic forces
that I could see and feel

979
01:20:21,380 --> 01:20:25,060
beneath the great bowl
of stars, knowing,

980
01:20:25,060 --> 01:20:30,450
as children did in those
days, that walking on the moon

981
01:20:30,450 --> 01:20:36,300
was a holy and wholly
reasonable dream.

982
01:20:36,300 --> 01:20:39,510
Now I live by the
San Francisco Bay,

983
01:20:39,510 --> 01:20:42,080
some 3,500 miles from here.

984
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:48,940
And when I look up into the
sky each night I see fog.

985
01:20:48,940 --> 01:20:53,040
This is not a metaphor for
adults faith development,

986
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:57,020
it is the climate.

987
01:20:57,020 --> 01:21:03,290
Yet, growing up under these
vast New England summer skies,

988
01:21:03,290 --> 01:21:07,990
I learned this faith
of Ralph Waldo Emerson,

989
01:21:07,990 --> 01:21:11,430
that there is in
the heavenly bodies

990
01:21:11,430 --> 01:21:16,220
the perpetual presence
of the sublime.

991
01:21:16,220 --> 01:21:20,320
This evening together
we begin another chapter

992
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:23,950
in the story of
our ever changing,

993
01:21:23,950 --> 01:21:26,930
ever moving tradition.

994
01:21:26,930 --> 01:21:32,470
And such sublime courage is
contained in this moment.

995
01:21:32,470 --> 01:21:35,280
Jubilate.

996
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:37,830
What reasonable and
unreasonable dreams

997
01:21:37,830 --> 01:21:40,260
are contained in our hearts.

998
01:21:40,260 --> 01:21:43,770
Jubilate.

999
01:21:43,770 --> 01:21:47,310
We who have traveled
from across the post road

1000
01:21:47,310 --> 01:21:52,240
or across the globe to be
at this historic gathering

1001
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:55,380
of Unitarian
Universalist Association

1002
01:21:55,380 --> 01:21:58,740
are practicing courage
and taking risks.

1003
01:21:58,740 --> 01:22:01,820
Jubilate.

1004
01:22:01,820 --> 01:22:03,560
And know this.

1005
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:06,390
Our being together does matter.

1006
01:22:06,390 --> 01:22:11,190
It matters that we are here
practicing deep theology.

1007
01:22:11,190 --> 01:22:13,460
And the work of
packing and traveling

1008
01:22:13,460 --> 01:22:19,590
to new places, of logging in
and logging on and connecting,

1009
01:22:19,590 --> 01:22:25,620
#UUAGA, because we are
risking faithfully,

1010
01:22:25,620 --> 01:22:30,205
living these theologies and
doing the work of showing up,

1011
01:22:30,205 --> 01:22:34,100
of voting and of staying
in the conversations that

1012
01:22:34,100 --> 01:22:36,740
make us uncomfortable.

1013
01:22:36,740 --> 01:22:39,130
Through the days ahead,
we will be called upon

1014
01:22:39,130 --> 01:22:44,500
to do something that matters,
to reach out in love,

1015
01:22:44,500 --> 01:22:49,050
to cross those borders of our
imagination and scale walls,

1016
01:22:49,050 --> 01:22:53,790
repelling over edges,
literal and metaphoric.

1017
01:22:53,790 --> 01:22:56,640
In worship, in workshops
and all manners

1018
01:22:56,640 --> 01:23:00,610
of learning and community,
we will face the challenge

1019
01:23:00,610 --> 01:23:05,400
to grow this religion
from the inside out.

1020
01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:09,550
Risking faithfully is
this transformative

1021
01:23:09,550 --> 01:23:12,955
calling to cross the
borders that we have known,

1022
01:23:12,955 --> 01:23:19,530
to truly serve as religious
persons reaching out in love.

1023
01:23:19,530 --> 01:23:22,210
In this sacred
time, on this land,

1024
01:23:22,210 --> 01:23:27,200
I know that I am striving to
express the deepest gratitude

1025
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:31,160
and continue to learn from the
many persons who have already

1026
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:33,130
risked faithfully.

1027
01:23:33,130 --> 01:23:38,020
To nurture and sustain this
face through generations

1028
01:23:38,020 --> 01:23:41,610
of challenge and change.

1029
01:23:41,610 --> 01:23:46,510
For my ancestors and
elders thank you.

1030
01:23:46,510 --> 01:23:50,040
Our tradition of
scholarship reminds us

1031
01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:54,000
of the vision of our
courageous leaders

1032
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:57,680
to continually reach out in love
while learning and traversing

1033
01:23:57,680 --> 01:23:59,440
borders.

1034
01:23:59,440 --> 01:24:03,150
One such contemporary scholar,
the Reverend Dr. Susan Ritchie,

1035
01:24:03,150 --> 01:24:08,100
reminds us we have acted as if
such boundary lines could only

1036
01:24:08,100 --> 01:24:13,230
be crossed one at a time by
a few spectacular individuals

1037
01:24:13,230 --> 01:24:15,200
or ideas.

1038
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:18,620
Yet, borders are often
more impenetrable in theory

1039
01:24:18,620 --> 01:24:24,890
and on maps than they are in
the lives of actual people.

1040
01:24:24,890 --> 01:24:28,170
Such borders and
boundaries of who we are

1041
01:24:28,170 --> 01:24:31,570
and what we can be as
Unitarian Universalists

1042
01:24:31,570 --> 01:24:38,440
will no longer be the same by
the time we adjourn on Sunday.

1043
01:24:38,440 --> 01:24:42,310
Between then and now, we will
be offered possibilities as far

1044
01:24:42,310 --> 01:24:46,500
fetched as walking
on the moon once was.

1045
01:24:46,500 --> 01:24:48,195
Jubilate.

1046
01:24:48,195 --> 01:24:50,476
Audience: Jubilate.

1047
01:24:50,476 --> 01:24:51,850
Reverend Michelle
Favreault: Now,

1048
01:24:51,850 --> 01:24:56,230
as the eternal stars arise,
we come to our story.

1049
01:24:56,230 --> 01:24:59,060
It's a cosmic tale
we tell and it

1050
01:24:59,060 --> 01:25:04,250
is considered to be the source
of the teaching tikkun olam.

1051
01:25:04,250 --> 01:25:07,630
Tikkun olam is a key
understanding from Judaism

1052
01:25:07,630 --> 01:25:10,740
reminding human beings
of the imperative

1053
01:25:10,740 --> 01:25:15,220
to repair the world, mindful
of creation's great calling

1054
01:25:15,220 --> 01:25:20,560
to social and environmental
action and healing harms.

1055
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,770
Through our study
of the text, we've

1056
01:25:22,770 --> 01:25:27,380
learned many perspectives of
a cosmological myth created

1057
01:25:27,380 --> 01:25:33,140
in the 16th century by the great
Jewish mystic Rabbi Isaac Luria

1058
01:25:33,140 --> 01:25:37,060
Safed, known as the Ha'ARI.

1059
01:25:37,060 --> 01:25:39,730
Our dynamic and
beautiful tradition

1060
01:25:39,730 --> 01:25:44,150
of Unitarian Universalism is
informed by the prophetic words

1061
01:25:44,150 --> 01:25:49,310
and deeds of so many who have
come before and live among us,

1062
01:25:49,310 --> 01:25:53,350
and it is with humility
that we engage this text.

1063
01:25:53,350 --> 01:25:57,990
For this story we tell is so
big, so cosmic, so enduring

1064
01:25:57,990 --> 01:26:00,460
that it keeps changing.

1065
01:26:00,460 --> 01:26:01,941
Jubilate.

1066
01:26:01,941 --> 01:26:03,605
Audience: Jubilate.

1067
01:26:03,605 --> 01:26:05,230
Reverend Michelle
Favreault: And still,

1068
01:26:05,230 --> 01:26:09,590
entering into story across
time and culture is complex.

1069
01:26:09,590 --> 01:26:13,160
Still, we risk
faithfully, striving

1070
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:16,420
to pay attention as
we grow in wisdom

1071
01:26:16,420 --> 01:26:22,070
and give new shape to our
spiritual and ethical lives.

1072
01:26:22,070 --> 01:26:24,350
The Reverend Leah
Hart-Landsberg president

1073
01:26:24,350 --> 01:26:27,450
of Unitarian Universalist
for Jewish Awareness,

1074
01:26:27,450 --> 01:26:30,460
assures us that to
be a religious person

1075
01:26:30,460 --> 01:26:33,740
is to know this story.

1076
01:26:33,740 --> 01:26:36,000
For it is a narrative
about how we

1077
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:39,960
learn to know the perpetual
presence of the divine,

1078
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:49,700
and telling this
story is a mitzvah.

1079
01:26:49,700 --> 01:26:52,180
Reverend Erika Hewitt: We
center ourselves in story,

1080
01:26:52,180 --> 01:26:55,100
as humans have done
for as long as we've

1081
01:26:55,100 --> 01:26:59,290
been alive and equipped
with the language

1082
01:26:59,290 --> 01:27:02,650
to make sense out of mystery.

1083
01:27:02,650 --> 01:27:06,320
Our stories remind us
who we are and who's

1084
01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:12,220
we are, who we've been
and who we strive to be.

1085
01:27:12,220 --> 01:27:16,680
This one takes us all the
way back to the beginning.

1086
01:27:16,680 --> 01:27:19,590
In our human family,
there are many stories

1087
01:27:19,590 --> 01:27:23,690
about how our world
came into being.

1088
01:27:23,690 --> 01:27:26,990
All of them true in
some way and none

1089
01:27:26,990 --> 01:27:30,130
of them more important
than the others.

1090
01:27:30,130 --> 01:27:32,960
This story, however,
is about how

1091
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:44,770
we learned to reach out in love.

1092
01:27:44,770 --> 01:27:47,660
Speaker 6: There was nothing.

1093
01:27:47,660 --> 01:27:50,850
There was emptiness.

1094
01:27:50,850 --> 01:27:55,150
It was before the
beginning and before that,

1095
01:27:55,150 --> 01:27:58,420
before all memories begin.

1096
01:27:58,420 --> 01:28:03,360
Speaker 7: The creator brought
the world out of the inky void.

1097
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:09,280
It took a simple flourish,
a murmured incantation.

1098
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:14,360
And voila, the planet was born.

1099
01:28:14,360 --> 01:28:19,030
Slowly, suspended
delicately in space,

1100
01:28:19,030 --> 01:28:22,810
this cloud of dust
and minerals began

1101
01:28:22,810 --> 01:28:26,620
spinning around its rocky core.

1102
01:28:26,620 --> 01:28:30,030
Speaker 8: This new
world began to circle

1103
01:28:30,030 --> 01:28:35,820
around a blazing, powerful
star joined by other planets

1104
01:28:35,820 --> 01:28:38,340
circling their orbits.

1105
01:28:38,340 --> 01:28:41,590
Speaker 7: The
creator wasn't done.

1106
01:28:41,590 --> 01:28:49,120
The new planet needed beauty,
texture, color, elements,

1107
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:56,250
forces beyond our understanding,
set in motion all the forces

1108
01:28:56,250 --> 01:29:03,280
and sources of life that would
help this new planet thrive.

1109
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:08,760
Speaker 9: Cloud cover and
oceans, mountains and deserts,

1110
01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:13,180
creatures with fins,
fur and feathers.

1111
01:29:13,180 --> 01:29:17,420
All of this and more
emerged and evolved

1112
01:29:17,420 --> 01:29:21,050
across the surface
of this new world.

1113
01:29:21,050 --> 01:29:22,900
Speaker 6: It was done.

1114
01:29:22,900 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 7: It was finished.

1115
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:28,780
Speaker 8: It took
a very long time,

1116
01:29:28,780 --> 01:29:33,280
a little under 14 billion years.

1117
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:36,460
Speaker 9: But it was beautiful.

1118
01:29:36,460 --> 01:29:41,170
Speaker 7: The new world
glowed with a green blue light

1119
01:29:41,170 --> 01:29:45,690
in the inky darkness
of its galaxy.

1120
01:29:45,690 --> 01:29:51,000
Still, the creator wanted
to add a final element.

1121
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:51,500
All: Light.

1122
01:29:51,500 --> 01:29:52,550
Light.

1123
01:29:52,550 --> 01:29:53,250
Light.

1124
01:29:53,250 --> 01:29:54,670
Light.

1125
01:29:54,670 --> 01:29:59,560
Speaker 7: Not just any
light, a special light.

1126
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:01,600
Speaker 6: A sacred light.

1127
01:30:01,600 --> 01:30:04,480
So that this new world
would shine with goodness.

1128
01:30:04,480 --> 01:30:08,520
Speaker 9: A powerful light that
would prevent all suffering.

1129
01:30:08,520 --> 01:30:14,430
Speaker 8: A healing light to
prevent all sadness and evil.

1130
01:30:14,430 --> 01:30:18,480
Speaker 9: The light was
too powerful to move freely

1131
01:30:18,480 --> 01:30:19,870
throughout the planet.

1132
01:30:19,870 --> 01:30:25,230
So it lay hidden, tucked
away in sacred vessels.

1133
01:30:25,230 --> 01:30:27,060
Speaker 6: But when
the creator tried

1134
01:30:27,060 --> 01:30:30,266
to open the vessels of light--

1135
01:30:30,266 --> 01:30:36,182
[SOUNDS OF HEAVY DOORS OPENING]

1136
01:30:36,182 --> 01:30:37,661
--they shattered.

1137
01:30:37,661 --> 01:30:47,060
[SOUNDS OF HEAVY DOORS OPENING]

1138
01:30:47,060 --> 01:30:51,950
Speaker 9: Released from their
vessels, the light blazed

1139
01:30:51,950 --> 01:30:54,510
and then scattered.

1140
01:30:54,510 --> 01:30:57,580
Speaker 8: Sparks of lights
were flung everywhere.

1141
01:30:57,580 --> 01:30:58,240
Lost.

1142
01:30:58,240 --> 01:30:58,906
Speaker 6: Lost.

1143
01:30:58,906 --> 01:30:59,573
Speaker 7: Lost.

1144
01:30:59,573 --> 01:31:00,239
Speaker 6: Lost.

1145
01:31:00,239 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 9: Lost.

1146
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:02,810
Speaker 8: And then gone.

1147
01:31:02,810 --> 01:31:21,850
Speaker 7: All of that
precious goodness lost.

1148
01:31:21,850 --> 01:31:26,410
Reverend Erika Hewitt: Everyone
here has been visited by pain.

1149
01:31:26,410 --> 01:31:28,520
It too is part of our world.

1150
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:30,520
Life is fragile.

1151
01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:34,530
There's brokenness
all around us.

1152
01:31:34,530 --> 01:31:37,810
Our pale blue earth,
home of all life,

1153
01:31:37,810 --> 01:31:41,250
cries out to us in
her own language

1154
01:31:41,250 --> 01:31:45,920
that her delicate balance
has tipped beyond help

1155
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:49,270
into great harm.

1156
01:31:49,270 --> 01:31:56,190
Life is fragile, torn
by violence and anger.

1157
01:31:56,190 --> 01:31:58,570
Around the world
our human family

1158
01:31:58,570 --> 01:32:02,450
cries out in loss and
despair in the fear

1159
01:32:02,450 --> 01:32:07,660
that hope is beyond reach.

1160
01:32:07,660 --> 01:32:09,930
Life is fragile.

1161
01:32:09,930 --> 01:32:13,380
There is brokenness within us.

1162
01:32:13,380 --> 01:32:22,380
We make mistakes, we betray
one another, we lose hope.

1163
01:32:22,380 --> 01:32:25,480
Our own hearts break
or are broken open

1164
01:32:25,480 --> 01:32:30,450
or they simply shut.

1165
01:32:30,450 --> 01:32:34,270
In this quiet time
of devotion, we

1166
01:32:34,270 --> 01:32:40,810
offer our wants and burdens to
the care that cares for all.

1167
01:32:40,810 --> 01:32:46,610
We acknowledge our
hunger for hope.

1168
01:32:46,610 --> 01:32:53,470
We reclaim our capacity
for healing, for opening.

1169
01:32:53,470 --> 01:32:58,570
May we honor the secret
struggle of every person

1170
01:32:58,570 --> 01:33:03,950
and discover new ways
to reach out in love.

1171
01:33:03,950 --> 01:33:09,360
We reach out in love when
we turn away from numbness

1172
01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:14,320
and feel what needs to be felt.

1173
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:21,730
We choose love when rather
than stumbling headlong

1174
01:33:21,730 --> 01:33:28,070
into judgment, we
make room for what is,

1175
01:33:28,070 --> 01:33:34,290
practice curiosity in the
midst of disappointment

1176
01:33:34,290 --> 01:33:42,870
and steadfastly refuse
to shame one another.

1177
01:33:42,870 --> 01:33:47,110
We reach out in love
when we risk faithfully,

1178
01:33:47,110 --> 01:34:00,000
choose to be brave, and
move into vulnerability.

1179
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:04,630
Nearly a century ago,
our Unitarian siblings

1180
01:34:04,630 --> 01:34:07,880
collected themselves
in words of prayer

1181
01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:11,760
from hymns of the spirit,
humbling themselves

1182
01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:15,320
to that which is larger than us.

1183
01:34:15,320 --> 01:34:21,270
I invite you to breathe our
breath into those same words.

1184
01:34:21,270 --> 01:34:25,810
Will you pray with me?

1185
01:34:25,810 --> 01:34:30,850
All: Oh, unseen source
of peace and holiness,

1186
01:34:30,850 --> 01:34:34,210
we come into your
secret place to be

1187
01:34:34,210 --> 01:34:38,800
filled with your pure
and solemn light.

1188
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:43,060
As we come here to
seek that which is just

1189
01:34:43,060 --> 01:34:46,990
and to find that
which is good, we

1190
01:34:46,990 --> 01:34:52,490
remember that we have not
walked lovingly with each other.

1191
01:34:52,490 --> 01:34:57,720
That we have feared what is not
terrible and wished for what

1192
01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:00,350
is not holy.

1193
01:35:00,350 --> 01:35:04,550
We have made but feeble
effort to understand

1194
01:35:04,550 --> 01:35:11,260
the peoples of the world and to
foster peace among the nations.

1195
01:35:11,260 --> 01:35:16,430
In our weakness be the
quickening power of life.

1196
01:35:16,430 --> 01:35:22,620
Arise in our hearts as
healing, strength and joy.

1197
01:35:22,620 --> 01:35:29,580
Day by day may we grow in
faith, in generosity of spirit

1198
01:35:29,580 --> 01:35:34,774
and in the larger life to
love to which you call us.

1199
01:35:34,774 --> 01:35:37,762
Amen.

1200
01:35:37,762 --> 01:40:31,599
[MUSIC - JOE JENCKS, "FLAME IN
 THE DARKNESS"]

1201
01:40:31,599 --> 01:40:43,550
[APPLAUSE]

1202
01:40:43,550 --> 01:40:46,950
Speaker 9: The
creator was upset.

1203
01:40:46,950 --> 01:40:50,570
The sacred light had been
lost to the far corners

1204
01:40:50,570 --> 01:40:54,790
of this new blue green world.

1205
01:40:54,790 --> 01:40:57,340
Speaker 6: The world
could not be complete.

1206
01:40:57,340 --> 01:40:59,460
Speaker 8: Could not be whole.

1207
01:40:59,460 --> 01:41:02,460
Speaker 7: Until all of
the sparks of goodness

1208
01:41:02,460 --> 01:41:08,730
were gathered again, united
into their powerful oneness.

1209
01:41:08,730 --> 01:41:11,920
Speaker 9: Would it be
possible to retrieve the light

1210
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:15,140
and tuck it back into
the sacred vessels?

1211
01:41:15,140 --> 01:41:17,670
Speaker 6: No.

1212
01:41:17,670 --> 01:41:20,430
Gathering those
million shards of light

1213
01:41:20,430 --> 01:41:23,860
was too much even
for the creator.

1214
01:41:23,860 --> 01:41:26,830
Speaker 7: Though the creator
couldn't search out and find

1215
01:41:26,830 --> 01:41:33,700
each spark, there was
still one more possibility.

1216
01:41:33,700 --> 01:41:40,320
To ask for help for this
enormous, important task.

1217
01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:42,050
Speaker 8: The
creator could create

1218
01:41:42,050 --> 01:41:47,640
beings to find the lost
light, to gather the sparks,

1219
01:41:47,640 --> 01:41:50,760
to make the world whole again.

1220
01:41:50,760 --> 01:41:55,030
Speaker 9: And so, once more,
the creator, god of life,

1221
01:41:55,030 --> 01:41:58,570
summoned the power
of changeless love,

1222
01:41:58,570 --> 01:42:02,620
bringing the human
family into being.

1223
01:42:02,620 --> 01:42:08,790
Speaker 7: Birth after birth,
generation upon generation,

1224
01:42:08,790 --> 01:42:14,400
the creator's everlasting
arms cradled each new baby

1225
01:42:14,400 --> 01:42:15,880
whispering--

1226
01:42:15,880 --> 01:42:20,490
Speaker 8: Remember
that you came from love.

1227
01:42:20,490 --> 01:42:25,150
Remember that love
is at your center.

1228
01:42:25,150 --> 01:42:28,611
Always reach out in love.

1229
01:42:28,611 --> 01:42:29,485
Speaker 9: Reach out.

1230
01:42:29,485 --> 01:42:30,130
Speaker 7: Reach out.

1231
01:42:30,130 --> 01:42:30,220
Speaker 6: Reach out.

1232
01:42:30,220 --> 01:42:30,520
Speaker 9: Reach out.

1233
01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:31,395
Speaker 7: Reach out.

1234
01:42:31,395 --> 01:42:32,690
Speaker 6: Reach out.

1235
01:42:32,690 --> 01:42:37,060
Speaker 8: As you grow,
go out and seek the light.

1236
01:42:37,060 --> 01:42:39,190
Bring it back to one another.

1237
01:42:39,190 --> 01:42:44,690
You were made to reach out
and bring back the light.

1238
01:42:44,690 --> 01:42:46,636
All: Bring back the light.

1239
01:42:46,636 --> 01:42:47,510
Bring back the light.

1240
01:42:47,510 --> 01:42:48,980
Bring back the light.

1241
01:42:48,980 --> 01:42:53,250
Speaker 6: This, some say, is
why the human family exists.

1242
01:42:53,250 --> 01:42:59,971
To search out goodness and
to find what has been broken.

1243
01:42:59,971 --> 01:43:02,986
Speaker 9: To know one
another in our differences

1244
01:43:02,986 --> 01:43:08,920
as bearers of light, seeking
itself, remembering its source.

1245
01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:12,130
Speaker 7: To gather up
love where we find it

1246
01:43:12,130 --> 01:43:18,884
and to use it to heal one
another and our earth home.

1247
01:43:18,884 --> 01:43:20,800
Reverend Erika Hewitt:
This is why we're here.

1248
01:43:20,800 --> 01:43:48,200
This is why we are here
to reach out in love.

1249
01:43:48,200 --> 01:44:24,625
Take a look behind
you some of you.

1250
01:44:24,625 --> 01:44:27,690
Will you help bring
back the light

1251
01:44:27,690 --> 01:44:30,310
by using your flame
candle or chalice

1252
01:44:30,310 --> 01:46:57,500
app to light up the darkness?

1253
01:46:57,500 --> 01:47:00,030
Reverend Michelle Favreault:
Love knows no single language,

1254
01:47:00,030 --> 01:47:03,060
love speaks them all.

1255
01:47:03,060 --> 01:47:07,212
Love knows no borders,
it moves across them all.

1256
01:47:07,212 --> 01:47:11,000
Love is our finding one another.

1257
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:13,390
Reverend Erika Hewitt:
We asked, what does love

1258
01:47:13,390 --> 01:47:17,470
look like in your community?

1259
01:47:17,470 --> 01:47:22,090
Speaker 9: And Filipino,
love is defiant.

1260
01:47:22,090 --> 01:47:26,770
In the face of devastation
we find the fire of laughter.

1261
01:47:26,770 --> 01:47:31,640
In the face of powerlessness we
find the ferocity to give more.

1262
01:47:31,640 --> 01:47:35,000
And our word for
it is [FILIPINO].

1263
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:36,460
Please say it with me.

1264
01:47:36,460 --> 01:47:38,073
[FILIPINO]

1265
01:47:38,073 --> 01:47:42,020
All: [FILIPINO]

1266
01:47:42,020 --> 01:47:44,190
Speaker 10: In our
community, love

1267
01:47:44,190 --> 01:47:47,680
looks like a family from all
around the world gathered

1268
01:47:47,680 --> 01:47:51,960
at the table to learn and grow
and to share stories, faith

1269
01:47:51,960 --> 01:47:54,340
and food for the soul.

1270
01:47:54,340 --> 01:47:58,700
In Farsi, the word
for love is [FARSI].

1271
01:47:58,700 --> 01:48:00,100
Say it with me.

1272
01:48:00,100 --> 01:48:03,325
All: [FARSI]

1273
01:48:03,325 --> 01:48:06,695
Speaker 11: In Spanish, the
word for love is [SPANISH].

1274
01:48:06,695 --> 01:48:08,390
Please say [SPANISH].

1275
01:48:08,390 --> 01:48:12,530
All: [SPANISH]

1276
01:48:12,530 --> 01:48:15,790
Speaker 12: In [INAUDIBLE]
we firmly hold the choice,

1277
01:48:15,790 --> 01:48:21,430
share the song of hope and laugh
and welcome anyone of goodwill

1278
01:48:21,430 --> 01:48:26,940
to share the light with the
new generations of Unitarians.

1279
01:48:26,940 --> 01:48:31,198
Our word for love is
[FOREIGN LANGUAGE].

1280
01:48:31,198 --> 01:48:39,511
All: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE].

1281
01:48:39,511 --> 01:48:46,370
[CLAPPING]

1282
01:48:46,370 --> 01:49:01,420
Speaker 13: [SPEAKING JAPANESE]

1283
01:49:01,420 --> 01:49:07,190
All: [JAPANESE]

1284
01:49:07,190 --> 01:49:10,520
Speaker 14: In the Khasi
Hills, love is binding.

1285
01:49:10,520 --> 01:49:13,540
It binds our families,
our neighbors,

1286
01:49:13,540 --> 01:49:18,770
our friends in spite of the
many challenges we face in life.

1287
01:49:18,770 --> 01:49:22,070
Life moves on because of love.

1288
01:49:22,070 --> 01:49:26,370
The Khasi word for
love is [KHASI].

1289
01:49:26,370 --> 01:49:29,730
All: [KHASI].

1290
01:49:29,730 --> 01:49:41,570
Reverend Peter Morales:
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

1291
01:49:41,570 --> 01:49:46,050
All: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

1292
01:49:46,050 --> 01:49:48,090
Speaker 16: In
Transylvania, love

1293
01:49:48,090 --> 01:49:56,120
means to be faithful to one's
values and tradition and people

1294
01:49:56,120 --> 01:49:57,790
and calling.

1295
01:49:57,790 --> 01:50:04,020
In this love we nurture our
good selves and each other

1296
01:50:04,020 --> 01:50:07,960
and those around us and like us.

1297
01:50:07,960 --> 01:50:11,070
And we welcome those
who are different.

1298
01:50:11,070 --> 01:50:15,833
Our Hungarian word for
love is [HUNGARIAN].

1299
01:50:15,833 --> 01:50:20,930
All: [HUNGARIAN].

1300
01:50:20,930 --> 01:50:23,550
Speaker 17: In my
[INAUDIBLE] community, love

1301
01:50:23,550 --> 01:50:27,440
reaches out across
all generations

1302
01:50:27,440 --> 01:50:30,860
to bring peaceful hope to all.

1303
01:50:30,860 --> 01:50:34,840
The word for love is
[FOREIGN LANGUAGE].

1304
01:50:34,840 --> 01:50:35,780
Say it with me.

1305
01:50:35,780 --> 01:50:39,750
[FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

1306
01:50:39,750 --> 01:50:42,250
Reverend Erika Hewitt: From
hand to hand the greeting flows,

1307
01:50:42,250 --> 01:50:46,990
from eye to eye the signals
run, from heart to heart

1308
01:50:46,990 --> 01:50:48,686
the bright hope glows.

1309
01:50:48,686 --> 01:50:50,061
Reverend Michelle
Favreault: Love

1310
01:50:50,061 --> 01:50:53,240
is our finding one
another across difference,

1311
01:50:53,240 --> 01:50:55,410
across language.

1312
01:50:55,410 --> 01:50:58,500
Reverend Erika Hewitt: Love is
recognizing our common source

1313
01:50:58,500 --> 01:51:00,290
and end.

1314
01:51:00,290 --> 01:51:04,480
Love is our remembering that, in
the words of Samuel Longfellow,

1315
01:51:04,480 --> 01:51:07,447
the seekers of
the light are one.

1316
01:51:07,447 --> 01:51:09,030
Reverend Michelle
Favreault: And so we

1317
01:51:09,030 --> 01:51:12,877
offer this blessing,
this bright hope.

1318
01:51:12,877 --> 01:51:14,960
Reverend Erika Hewitt:
Blessed be the sparks in me

1319
01:51:14,960 --> 01:51:19,180
that recognize the spark in you.

1320
01:51:19,180 --> 01:51:28,340
Speaker 9: Blessed be these
eyes that see you as my kindred.

1321
01:51:28,340 --> 01:51:34,750
Speaker 12: Blessed be your
heart which has known pain.

1322
01:51:34,750 --> 01:51:36,840
Speaker 16: Blessed
be your shoulders

1323
01:51:36,840 --> 01:51:41,650
that have shared the burden
carried by someone else,

1324
01:51:41,650 --> 01:51:47,590
easing their struggle.

1325
01:51:47,590 --> 01:51:49,860
Speaker 14: Blessed
be your arms that

1326
01:51:49,860 --> 01:51:54,354
have always cared
with compassion.

1327
01:51:54,354 --> 01:51:55,770
Reverend Peter
Morales: Blessed be

1328
01:51:55,770 --> 01:52:02,080
your voices that have
spoken truth to power.

1329
01:52:02,080 --> 01:52:03,870
Speaker 10: Blessed
be these minds

1330
01:52:03,870 --> 01:52:10,760
which imagine a world and
her people made whole.

1331
01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:13,140
Speaker 17: Blessed
be our hands for they

1332
01:52:13,140 --> 01:52:17,184
hold the [INAUDIBLE]
of the world.

1333
01:52:17,184 --> 01:52:18,600
Greg Greenway:
Blessed be the feet

1334
01:52:18,600 --> 01:52:23,060
that keep the rhythm
and the hands that

1335
01:52:23,060 --> 01:52:29,160
do what must be done.

1336
01:52:29,160 --> 01:55:37,614
[SINGING - BROTHER SUN, "WHAT
 MUST BE DONE"]

1337
01:55:37,614 --> 01:55:47,494
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

1338
01:55:47,494 --> 01:55:49,990
Reverend Michelle Favreault: We.

1339
01:55:49,990 --> 01:55:54,200
We aren't actors in an ancient
story, we aren't bystanders,

1340
01:55:54,200 --> 01:55:56,870
we don't turn out or look away.

1341
01:55:56,870 --> 01:56:00,290
Jim Key: We see the contours
of life beyond the horizon,

1342
01:56:00,290 --> 01:56:02,555
dream our way forward
and take action.

1343
01:56:02,555 --> 01:56:03,930
Reverend Peter
Morales: All of us

1344
01:56:03,930 --> 01:56:08,370
are vibrant participants in
our living tradition, making

1345
01:56:08,370 --> 01:56:12,150
a covenant with each other and
with our future generations

1346
01:56:12,150 --> 01:56:16,310
and with the whole
of our human family.

1347
01:56:16,310 --> 01:56:19,630
Reverend Erika Hewitt: We are,
all of us, held in divine love

1348
01:56:19,630 --> 01:56:22,170
that will never let us go.

1349
01:56:22,170 --> 01:56:27,290
And we're held by this
flawed, loving, vibrant

1350
01:56:27,290 --> 01:56:28,694
human community.

1351
01:56:28,694 --> 01:56:30,360
Reverend Michelle
Favreault: In a moment

1352
01:56:30,360 --> 01:56:32,540
we're going to have
our final hymn.

1353
01:56:32,540 --> 01:56:35,720
And before that I want
to ask that you all

1354
01:56:35,720 --> 01:56:39,910
stay for a very
singable postlude.

1355
01:56:39,910 --> 01:56:42,630
And let our folks
who are in scooters

1356
01:56:42,630 --> 01:56:46,010
out at the end of that postlude.

1357
01:56:46,010 --> 01:56:48,190
This closing hymn
that we're sharing

1358
01:56:48,190 --> 01:56:51,830
is one of solace
intersecting with faith.

1359
01:56:51,830 --> 01:56:56,380
In the late 1880s, hearing
news of two grieving friends,

1360
01:56:56,380 --> 01:56:59,700
Anthony Showalter turned
to ancient scripture

1361
01:56:59,700 --> 01:57:02,900
and was comforted
by these words.

1362
01:57:02,900 --> 01:57:06,030
The eternal is your
refuge and underneath

1363
01:57:06,030 --> 01:57:08,900
our everlasting arms.

1364
01:57:08,900 --> 01:57:13,260
Together with a Elisha
Hoffman, our hymn was born.

1365
01:57:13,260 --> 01:57:15,140
Reverend Peter Morales:
Let us sing together

1366
01:57:15,140 --> 01:57:17,760
as you stand in body or spirit.

1367
01:57:17,760 --> 01:57:21,920
Let us sing of our fellowship,
sing of our journey together

1368
01:57:21,920 --> 01:57:24,060
and the love that holds us all.

1369
01:57:24,060 --> 01:59:36,329
[MUSIC - "LEANING ON THE
 EVERLASTING ARMS"]

1370
01:59:36,329 --> 01:59:41,555
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

1371
01:59:41,555 --> 01:59:43,729
Reverend Michelle
Favreault: And so it begins.

1372
01:59:43,729 --> 01:59:45,520
Reverend Erika Hewitt:
And so it has begun.

1373
01:59:45,520 --> 01:59:47,978
Reverend Michelle Favreault:
As General Assembly carries us

1374
01:59:47,978 --> 01:59:50,325
forward, may your
voices remain strong.

1375
01:59:50,325 --> 01:59:52,450
Reverend Erika Hewitt: May
your hearts remain open.

1376
01:59:52,450 --> 01:59:54,366
Reverend Michelle
Favreault: And may your arms

1377
01:59:54,366 --> 01:59:56,040
reach out in love.

1378
01:59:56,040 --> 01:59:59,807
Reverend Erika Hewitt:
Go in peace and in joy.

1379
01:59:59,807 --> 02:00:02,801
Joe Jencks: One, two,
one, two, three, four.

1380
02:00:02,801 --> 02:03:10,444
[MUSIC - BROTHER SUN, "LET THE
 DAY BEGIN"]

1381
02:03:10,444 --> 02:03:17,255
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

1382
02:03:17,255 --> 02:03:18,380
David Glasgow: Brother Sun.

1383
02:03:18,380 --> 02:03:31,280
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

1384
02:03:31,280 --> 02:03:34,697
Friends, are you
as excited as I am?

1385
02:03:34,697 --> 02:03:37,620
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

1386
02:03:37,620 --> 02:03:40,270
What a community we are part of.

1387
02:03:40,270 --> 02:03:41,510
Amen?

1388
02:03:41,510 --> 02:03:43,260
We're allowed to say
that, by the way.

1389
02:03:43,260 --> 02:03:43,810
Amen?

1390
02:03:43,810 --> 02:03:46,325
All: Amen.

1391
02:03:46,325 --> 02:03:48,200
David Glasgow: And as
part of this community,

1392
02:03:48,200 --> 02:03:51,850
you may have noticed that
the aisles in this space

1393
02:03:51,850 --> 02:03:53,970
are a little bit narrow.

1394
02:03:53,970 --> 02:03:56,580
And I think it would be
wise for those of us who

1395
02:03:56,580 --> 02:04:00,060
have less trouble navigating
those aisles to sing

1396
02:04:00,060 --> 02:04:03,420
a little bit so that
those who have difficulty

1397
02:04:03,420 --> 02:04:06,410
with those aisles have a
head start at getting on

1398
02:04:06,410 --> 02:04:08,430
with the rest of their evening.

1399
02:04:08,430 --> 02:04:11,600
We're going to throw some
more lyrics up on the screens,

1400
02:04:11,600 --> 02:04:14,060
and as soon as I remember what
song I asked us to throw up

1401
02:04:14,060 --> 02:04:17,930
there, "Come and Go With Me."

1402
02:04:17,930 --> 02:04:19,634
Let's sing a little, shall we?

1403
02:04:19,634 --> 02:06:55,309
[MUSIC - "COME AND GO WITH ME"]

1404
02:06:55,309 --> 02:06:58,177
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

1405
02:06:58,177 --> 02:06:59,510
David Glasgow: Goodnight, y'all.

1406
02:06:59,510 --> 02:07:02,480
We've got a great
week ahead of us.

1407
02:07:02,480 --> 02:08:26,646