Watching UUA General Assembly from home #uuaga
Last year I was one of the first delegates attending our Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly (GA) via the internet. I was quoted about it in the UUWorld here.
This year I'm not a delegate. Work and other commitments will also keep me from seeing most of it live, though I will try to see as much as possible. Many people are not interested in that kind of thing - including the in-person attendance of GA. I'm an introvert and politics is not my favorite thing, but I have been inspired by some of the testimony that takes place there. It's also energizing to sing songs of our faith with so many people.
Our individual congregations may not always seem to be the best they can be. I think it has to do with diversity - we have many different interests and ways of communicating and ideas of how things can be done. It can be daunting for many to deal with these things. I know that small groups are the ones to do what needs to be done and usually a small group is inspired by an individual who is the catalyst for change. I don't feel like I'm the person to be the catalyst for change, but I try to be a supporter and encourager. People at GA are an inspiration to me. There are leaders there who are great models of leadership. I try to bring some of that to my congregation.
The UUWorld will be blogging about GA here if you don't have time to read all the UU bloggers who are blogging about it here and using the tag uuaga13 as I will if I have time to blog about the things I read. Also the Twitter tag to follow is #uuaga and they have a list of others as well (UU hashtag directory on Facebook). You could also watch it live here which included a chat last year and probably will again this year - here's a list of what you can watch and when. I just learned that Facebook now uses hashtags also, so you can easily find your friends or public forums who are posting about it. Other online resources for GA are here. There's a group of UU techies, mostly volunteers, who moderate and run so many things that we can benefit from (here's a photo of volunteers and staff just for the website work from a past GA). Thank you all who make this possible!
I hope to "see" you online at GA.
BTW, see my past GA posts, many of which include photos, at uuaga, uuga06, uuga07, uuaga07, uuaga08, uuaga2009, uuaga10, uuaga11, & uuaga12.
This year I'm not a delegate. Work and other commitments will also keep me from seeing most of it live, though I will try to see as much as possible. Many people are not interested in that kind of thing - including the in-person attendance of GA. I'm an introvert and politics is not my favorite thing, but I have been inspired by some of the testimony that takes place there. It's also energizing to sing songs of our faith with so many people.
Our individual congregations may not always seem to be the best they can be. I think it has to do with diversity - we have many different interests and ways of communicating and ideas of how things can be done. It can be daunting for many to deal with these things. I know that small groups are the ones to do what needs to be done and usually a small group is inspired by an individual who is the catalyst for change. I don't feel like I'm the person to be the catalyst for change, but I try to be a supporter and encourager. People at GA are an inspiration to me. There are leaders there who are great models of leadership. I try to bring some of that to my congregation.
The UUWorld will be blogging about GA here if you don't have time to read all the UU bloggers who are blogging about it here and using the tag uuaga13 as I will if I have time to blog about the things I read. Also the Twitter tag to follow is #uuaga and they have a list of others as well (UU hashtag directory on Facebook). You could also watch it live here which included a chat last year and probably will again this year - here's a list of what you can watch and when. I just learned that Facebook now uses hashtags also, so you can easily find your friends or public forums who are posting about it. Other online resources for GA are here. There's a group of UU techies, mostly volunteers, who moderate and run so many things that we can benefit from (here's a photo of volunteers and staff just for the website work from a past GA). Thank you all who make this possible!
I hope to "see" you online at GA.
BTW, see my past GA posts, many of which include photos, at uuaga, uuga06, uuga07, uuaga07, uuaga08, uuaga2009, uuaga10, uuaga11, & uuaga12.