AUUA Professional Days
Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 22-23, 2010
Come meet and get to know your colleagues in church administration! Share your joys and concerns as you share your stories and experiences. It truly is a growth experience to be able to interact with so many people who do the same work that you do!
Tuesday Evening Banquet Presentation
REV. VICTORIA SAFFORD is minister of White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church. A native of New York State, she came to Minnesota in 1999, following a ten-year ministry at Northampton, Massachusetts and five years of work with the American Friends Service Committee as a community organizer and activist. Reverend Safford is a graduate of Vassar College and Yale Divinity School and the winner of numerous sermon awards, including most recently the UUA’s Annual Program Fund award and that of the Unitarian Universalist Sunday School Society. She lives in Mahtomedi with her husband Ross and their daughter, Hope. Her published works include: Walking Towards Morning: Meditations.
For more about Rev. Victoria Safford and the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church, please visit their website at .http://www.whitebearunitarian.org
Wednesday Morning Professional Day Workshop
REV. ROBERT LATHAM is a native Texan, having been born in Wichita Falls. He grew up in the Southern Baptist tradition. He began preaching at the age of thirteen, was leading revival meetings during his mid-teens and ordained at age eighteen. Robert has a BA from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has two Master of Theology degrees.
As a result of a challenging educational experience in seminary his religious view of reality was transformed. And, as a result of an equally shattering experience in Vietnam, his cultural perspectives were also transformed. On the wake of these transformations he discovered Unitarian Universalism and officially entered our professional ministry in 1969.
His engagement as a minister has ranged from such varied experiences as a prolonged battle with the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during the nineteen sixties and serving the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada districts as International Minister at Large in the nineteen eighties. He created the Committee On Ministry concept and had what is now called a Worship Associates program back in the late nineteen seventies.
As a UU he has been the settled minister in Davenport, IA, Ft Worth, TX, Milwaukee, WI and Golden, CO. He has been an Interim Minister in Las Cruces, NM, Plano, TX, San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA, Princeton, NJ, Tucson, AZ and Wilmington, DE. He presently takes on special projects and heads the Phoenix Consulting Service.
His published works consist of The Unitarian Universalist Extension Manual (1985), Moving On From Church Folly Lane (2006) and A Tale of Boxes (2009).
For more information about the Rev. Robert Latham, please visit his website at http://www.mythinklink.com.