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Watch this 9 minute YouTube video from the MidWest Leadership School.  It highlights some of the youth activities with the attendees sharing their stories!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRC3NKvLGV8

The UUFA has been accepted for candidacy to the UUA Green Sanctuary Program; the letter is attached as in both Word and pdf formats. 

The text of the acceptance letter reads as follows:

With this letter, the Unitarian Universalist Association, Office of Congregation Stewardship Services is very pleased to formally welcome the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames as a candidate to the Green Sanctuary Program.  A Green Sanctuary Review Team has examined your application and is impressed with your plans for meeting the program goals.

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This is the body of the application the UUFA will submit to the UUA Green Sanctuary Committee as the part of the process of certification as a Green Sanctuary Congregation. This document is the culmination of the UUFA Green Sanctuary Committee's work over the past year. In addition to this narrative part of the application, we submitted three attachments, the report of an energy audit of our facility, a copy of the Present practices of our congregation: UUFA’s environmental footprint survey, and a summary of the survey results; pdf versions of these documents are attached.

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A Brief Introduction: UUFA's Interim Minister, Rev. Charlotte Cowtan

Charlotte comes to us from her most recent interim position, Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church, in Washington. She was first ordained at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Flint, Michigan, May 28, 1983. The following are her responses from her initial application to the UUA Transitions Office.

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Date and time:  May 2 2010 - 11:10am - 12:00pm

UUFA Annual Meeting Agenda (after single 10am service)

1.  Call to order

2.  Approve agenda

3.  Annual report (follow attachments link below)

4.  Ministerial transition update

5.  Elections: Nominating and Endowment committees, UUFA Board (choose "read more" to see names below)

6.  2010-11 budget (follow attachments link below to view proposal)

7.  Adjourn (potluck picnic afterward at lower Emma McCarthy Lee Park)

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