QUESTIONS FOR SUBSCRIBERS AND MEMBERS:

    1. PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP.

    The one other UU professional who was considering
becoming a volunteer staff member for the WWCC
has now decided that she is too busy
to accept this additional project.

    Should we go ahead with just one professional leader?
I have now posted my profile on the WWCC home page.
This profile is linked from the file called
Current Professional Leadership:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-PRO.html
Other professional volunteers can be added at any time.

    Do you know any other UU professional
who might like to be part of this Internet ministry?
Now that we have expanded to include adults of all ages,
a retired UU minister might be an ideal staff member.
Any suggestions?
If so, please send any such persons
to the WWCC home page for more information:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-INDEX.html

    2. NAME OF OUR ORGANIZATION.

    We are calling ourselves the WWCC for short,
until we can settle on a permanent name.
A file has been added to our home page,
which lists all suggestions received so far
—with some pros and cons of each name.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-NAMES.html
Please add your own comments and suggestions.

    Our home page has now been completely revised,
dropping the old name
(World Wide Young Adult Congregation)
wherever it appeared.
And various of the new possible names have been used instead.
See which one(s) you like best when you see them in context:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-INDEX.html

    And I am suggesting that we wait
until there are about 100 subscribers
before we let these original participants decide our official name.
What do you think about this?

    3. MORE PROPOSALS FOR CYBER-SERMONS NEEDED.

    We already have a good set of cyber-sermons suggested.
But the number of different people
ready to create such short sermons is still quite small.

    We could go ahead with what we have.
Or we could wait until more proposals are received.
Do you know of any other people
who could created cyber-sermons for the WWCC?
Here is the current list of proposals:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/YO.html

    If you know any UU ministers,
you might send them the Open Letter to UU Ministers:
"Ten Reasons for Creating Cyber-Sermons
for the World Wide Unitarian Universalists:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-OPEN-L.html

    Also, if you know any retired UU ministers, 
we have a special letter for them:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-OPEN-R.html

    But remember, cyber-sermons may be proposed
by anyone in the world.
You do not need to be a UU professional.
An extended essay has been added to the WWCC home page
explaining the reasons behind this policy
of being open to all possible authors of cyber-sermons:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-TALENT.html

    4. CYBER-SERMON-OF-THE-MONTH PROPOSED.

    I have been inviting various UU ministers
to submit the best sermons of their careers
to be considered for Cyber-Sermon-of-the-Month.
This is an attempt to discover and distribute
the very best in UU thinking
by means of our organizations, which we might call
the First Unitarian Universalist Church of the Internet.
Again, no takers yet,
but more surfing of the Internet may turn up
UU ministers who see the potential for this kind of ministry
—and who have the time to edit their best sermons
in order to make them into screen-friendly cyber-sermons.
Here is the file explaining the format for cyber-sermons:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-CYBSF.html

    The idea of a cyber-sermon-of-the-month
is also new since we last communicated.
This means that the basic content
of what we do as a congregation
would take place on a monthly basis,
rather than weekly, as is traditional for local congregations.
But this may help people
who are members of local congregations see that
we are not trying to REPLACE the face-to-face congregations.
UUs everywhere can participate fully in their local activities
—and still appreciate a monthly cyber-sermon on their home computers.
Here are some basic ideas about the cyber-sermon-of-the-month:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-CySerM.html

    5. SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS BEING CONTACTED.

    In order not to be preceived as trespassing on anyone else's turf,
we are in the process of asking other organizations
if they foresee any future conflicts with the WWCC.
Several similar organizations are profiled here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-SIMLAR.html
So far, we have very little response.
First, we need to see if they agree
with the profile we have created for each of them.
If the missions are different, there should be no conflict.
If the missions are similar,
we would like to cooperate wherever possible.
Do you know of other organizations that should be contacted?
Do you agree with the differences already articulated?

    You might respond to the several questions above
by copying this newsletter
(or just the questions you are responding to)
and inserting your answers where appropriate.

Yours,
James Park, webmaster for the WWCC:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-INDEX.html
 

    Please send your responses and further questions to me:
mailto:PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

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