Greetings from the Board President
March 2008
It sounds as if our minister, Rosemary Bray McNatt, is having an amazing time in Kenya. As you probably know, she has been working with the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists as a trainer at a conference in Nairobi for the leaders of emerging congregations in East Africa. I’ve been reading her blog, revrose.com, with great interest, and it is inspiring to read about the courage and the commitment of the Unitarian Universalists she has met in Kenya. The women and men attending the training, she says, “are leading small congregations with big issues. They are sheltering and caring for AIDS orphans, sometimes five and six orphans to a household. They are opening schools for these children in their living rooms.”
Since the conference ended, Rosemary has met some of the people displaced by the terrible post-election humanitarian crisis in Kenya. The work of the emerging Unitarian Universalist congregations has become even more difficult and important. We can hold them in our thoughts and prayers, and we can make a donation through our Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s disaster relief fund at http://www.uusc.org/programs/support_kenya.html. As Rosemary says, “One of the most bittersweet realities of the African continent is that a gift that we might consider small, even insignificant, can do amazing things here.”
I encourage you to read revrose.com to find out about some of the wonderful people Rosemary has met in her travels; you’ll be inspired by their enthusiasm for the liberating power of Unitarian Universalism.
In peace and love,
Lois Coleman
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