— 53RD ANNUAL —

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

June 24 – 28

54TH ANNUAL

GENERALASSEMBLY

Wednesday June 24

Thursday June 25

Friday June 26

Saturday June 27

Sunday June 28

7:00 am

Exhibit Hall Hours

Wednesday12:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Thursday10:00 am – 7:00 pm

Friday10:00 am – 7:00 pm

Saturday10:00 am – 4:30 pm

Sunday10:30 am – 2:30 pm

Spiritual Practice 7:00 – 7:30

Spiritual Practice 7:00 – 7:30

Spiritual Practice 7:00 – 7:30

Spiritual Practice 7:00 – 7:30

7:30 am Sing 7:45 – 8:00

8:00 am Morning Devotional 8:00 Worship8:00 – 8:45

Morning Devotional 8:00

General Session II8:15 – 10:15

General Session IV8:15 – 12:00

8:30 am

General Session III8:45 – 12:00

Sing 8:50 – 9:00

9:00 am

Sunday Morning Worship 9:00 – 10:309:30 am

10:00 am

10:30 am

Program #110:45 – 12:00

11:00 am

General Session V11:00 – 12:3011:30 am

12:00 pmLet’s Talk Over Lunch

12:00 – 1:15Let’s Talk Over Lunch

12:00 – 1:15Let’s Talk Over Lunch

12:00 – 1:1512:30 pm

1:00 pm

Young Adult Orientation1:00 - 2:30

Program #21:15 – 2:30

Program #51:15 – 2:30

Program #81:15 – 2:30

1:30 pm

General Session VI1:30 – 4:30

2:00 pm

2:30 pm

3:00 pm GA OrientationChoir Rehearsal

3:00 – 4:15Program #33:00 – 4:15

Program #63:00 – 4:15

Program #93:00 – 4:153:30 pm

4:00 pm

4:30 pm Youth Caucus & Sponsor Orientation

4:30 – 5:45Program #44:45 – 6:00

Program #74:45 – 6:00 Public Witness

4:45 – 6:15

5:00 pmClosing Celebration

5:00 – 6:005:30 pm

Regional Meetings5:45 – 6:456:00 pm

6:30 pm

7:00 pm

Sing 7:30 – 8:007:30 pmService of the Living

Tradition7:30 – 9:00

Synergy Bridging Worship

7:30 – 9:008:00 pm

Opening Celebration and General Session I

8:00 – 9:30

Ware Lecture8:00 – 9:008:30 pm

9:00 pm

9:30 pm Evening Event9:30 - 10:30 Evening Event

9:30 - 11:3010:00 pm

11:00 pm

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Cover Photo Credit: Travel Portland

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5! Your Mission Should You Choose To Accept It:

A HUGE percentage of the landfill waste we see each year comes from coffee cups and lids brought from outside the convention center.

• Reusable dishware will be provided in the Convention Center, but we can’t control what is brought in from outside, so please avoid using disposable cups/bottles!

• Each time you participate in the linen-reuse program at your hotel, 1.3 gallons of water is saved, that’s 8,500 gallons at a typical GA! Hang up those towels and help GA save water.

• Use the Max Train to/from airport and bus systems to get around Portland. Both will pick you up just outside the convention center!

• Think before you throw it away! Help us send the least amount of waste to landfill by using recycle and compost streams at each waste station. Be sure to ask recycling volunteers how to properly sort!

Here’s How You Can Help:

Brush Up On The New Composting Rules in Portland

Want a few more ways to be a Seventh Principle Superhero at GA?

Use A Reusable Mug

Did You Know?To Produce ZERO Waste at GA 2015. That means sending ZERO waste to landfill and ALL of our waste to be reused, recycled, composted, or donated.

As of March 2015, Portland, OR adopted a food-only compost stream, meaning that all disposable service ware, including those marked “compostable”, will now go to landfill.Where does food waste go now? All food waste goes to the JC Biomethane facility in Junction City, Oregon to generate electricity in its methane digester.What does this mean for GA Attendees? You can help by reusing your bottle/mug and putting only food in compost bins.

Lids Coffee Cups

“Compostable”Coffee Cups

LANDFILL

*NOTE This Year All Disposable Coffee Cups & Lids Go To LANDFILL

Food Scraps Energy “Compostable” Serviceware LANDFILL

GA’s highest diversion from landfill was in Phoenix 2012 where

waste went to landfill

We Can Do Better In 2015!

13%

Carbon Offsetting

For the first time, 100% of the

carbon produced at UUA GA 2015

will be offset.

Offsetting will be done mainly

through a country-wide truckstop electrification

project.

Visit the Green Booth outside the

exhibit hall to learn more!

Cover Photo Credit: Marianne Lee

A SACRED PUBLIC WITNESS: COMMIT2RESPOND TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Saturday 4:45 – 6:15PM

Our climate is changing, yet we have hope. Our world is in crisis, yet we have faith. Together, we are building a new way.

In the face of the overwhelming reality and impacts of climate change and environmental destruction, we need each other. Together, we can celebrate life. Together, we can deepen our commitments to justice. Together, we can change the world.

Come be renewed in and by our interconnectedness.

Hear from American Indian and First Nations leaders at the frontlines, including Lummi Nation Councilman and treaty rights activist Jay Julius and Lummi Elder, international climate justice activist, and totem pole carver Jewell Praying Wolf James.

Climate change threatens the ecosystems and way of life of Original Peoples of the Western Hemisphere, and the Pacific Northwest has become a corridor for fossil fuels. The largest coal port in North America has been proposed for Puget Sound’s Cherry Point, or Xwe’chi’eXen, which would desecrate Lummi Nation sacred lands and waters.

Climate justice offers a new way: a way to dismantle the paradigm that treats marginalized people as expendable, non-human species as irrelevant, and our Earth as supply source and sewer rather than a single, beloved community of interdependent life. It offers a way to acknowledge the disproportionate impacts of injustice on frontline low-income and people of color communities and follow the leadership of those most impacted.

Come honor our connections to each other and to all of creation. Together we will move through an experiential, worshipful event that allows us to access the deep emotional core touched by climate change: grief, anger, despair, and, finally, hope. From that hope we will take action.

Together we will build a new way.

This event will begin in the General Session Hall and will progress to the plaza directly outside the Convention Center. It is open to the public and people of all abilities are invited to participate. Visit Accessibility Services with any questions.

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U U A G E N E R A L ASSEMBLY 2015