WHERE ARE YOUR SERMONS NOW?
If you served UU congregations as a preacher for a number of years,
you created and delivered hundreds of sermons.
Perhaps you have these stored in a box or a file cabinet.
Maybe you have several stored electronically
on your computer and/or in some electronic back-up system.
What should happen to these—now and after your death?

     Which of your sermons are the very best?
Which were best received by those who heard them?
Which represent your most mature thinking?
Which sermons would you be most proud to be remembered by?
Which of your sermons will do the most good for the readers?

     Now that you are retired, you can devote as much time
as needed to make your expressions as perfect as possible.
Perhaps you have collected some sermons into a published book.
Or maybe you have thought of creating such a collection.
But you have been discouraged by the prospect
because it seems too much like work
—which you are now retired from.
And maybe you are not sure that any such collection
would find an audience large enough
to justify the expense of a printed book.

     But now the FUUCI offers you a free way
to share your thoughts with others who are already interested.
You do not commit yourself more than one cyber-sermon at a time. 

     A cyber-sermon is a screen-friendly written discourse
about 3 pages in length—about 100 sentences.
This is about half as many words as found in a normal UU sermon.

     You may find this format challenging,
but it should be possible as you re-read your best sermon
for you to sacrifice the less meaningful words and sentences
to the higher good of creating a cyber-sermon
that is easy to read on a computer screen.

     But even before you do that,
you need only a synopsis and/or outline
for your cyber-sermon to be selected.
This should be only about half a page of writing.
To see a few proposals already created, go to:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/YO.html
This link will also lead you to some cyber-sermons already created,
which will illustrate how much can be accomplished
with just 100 sentences.

     If the members of the FUUCI select your proposal,
only then will you have to spend some time revising that sermon
for presentation to a world-wide audience by means of the Internet.

     Would this be an intrinsically meaningful way
to devote some of your time in retirement?

     If interested, see the detailed instructions at this URL:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-CYBS.html

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