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Vision and Mission Update
In an effort to keep our vision statement fresh the UUPCC Board would like to invite you to review some proposed changes. We invite your comments and suggestions. It would be great if individual members would do this as well as Partner Church Committees. Please read through the proposed changes. Circle what you like. Add comments. Underline what you do not like and add comments. Is there something missing that needs to be there? Add a comment.
Mail your comments by January 1, 2010 to UUPCC, PO Box 88, Bedford MA 01730 or email them to Cathy Cordes. Thank you for your time and attention to this. This is your organization and we want it to reflect your ideas.
UUPCC Board of Directors
THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PARTNER CHURCH COUNCIL
Draft Vision June 2009
PROPOSED TEXT Part 1:
"We envision a Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist worldwide community, supported by partnerships, that provides peace, justice, and liberty for all and that is integral to congregational life.
CURRENT TEXT 2006 version:
Vision: The vision of the UU Partner Church Council is that partner relationships between North American congregations and churches around the globe will be forged and sustained wherever they are desired—and that these relationships will be of high quality, firmly based, mutually beneficial, responsibly sustained, and linked by a joint and mutual covenant. We envision a commitment to international engagement as a moral and spiritual principle that is integral to Unitarian Universalist congregational life.
PROPOSED TEXT Part 2:
The mission of the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council is to foster and support partner relationships between UU congregations and individuals in the United States and Canada with Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist congregations, orphanages, schools and students in all other countries where partnering is sought and welcomed. These will be of high quality, firmly based, mutually beneficial, responsibly sustained, and linked by a joint and mutual covenant.
CURRENT TEXT 2006 version:
Mission: The mission of the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council is to foster and support partner relationships between North American congregations and congregations, schools, and agencies in all other countries where partnering is sought and welcomed. This includes countries where partners are already active, such as Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, as well as other countries where new partnerships are now beginning, such as the Philippines, India, and Poland.
PROPOSED TEXT Part 3:
We will:
BE a bridge that connects congregations around the world;
REACH across boundaries to collaborate with old and new partners;
CREATE transformational opportunities for pilgrimage and hospitality, for learning and for service;
CHALLENGE ourselves theologically and open ourselves to changed values and behaviors;
ESTABLISH global community as a common commitment of liberal religion;
INITIATE partnerships that promote global friendships, international awareness, human rights, and a better world; and
SUSTAIN this global vision, enlarging and renewing it as new occasions teach new duties.
CURRENT TEXT 2006 version:
We will:
BE a bridge that connects congregations around the world;
REACH across boundaries to collaborate with old and new partners;
CREATE transformational opportunities for pilgrimage and hospitality, for learning and for service;
CHALLENGE ourselves theologically and open ourselves to changed values and behaviors;
INITIATE partnerships that promote global friendships, international awareness, human rights, and a better world; and
SUSTAIN this global vision, enlarging and renewing it as new occasions teach new duties.
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