Greetings from your NW Unity Conference Team!

We have recombined as a new team and are already planning our 2021 Online Conference. The new team is composed of Rev. Rachel Simpson, Rev. Jane Hiatt, Rev. Lisa Davis, Becca Palm and Mitch Hunter. We will have plenty to report as we go along but we wanted to start by communicating 2 things: how well the conference went and what we have planned for recording access.

1.   If you were there, you already know how much fun the conference was and how much great content you received! What you may not realize is how well attended it was since you couldn’t see the crowd. We had 65 registrants plus another 10 who were presenting a Wisdom Spot or a report from UHQ or UWM. In an in-person conference, those 10 would have been counted as attendees and 75 would have been a well-attended conference, so woo-hoo for a first of its kind! We have only partial details of attendees. We had 24 ministers, 9 LUT’s and 4 music directors. We had numerous attendees who were community leaders, probably way in excess of what we have had in the past, so we’re counting that as a victory too!

2.   We are in the process of figuring out all the technology of sharing the recordings from the conference. More details will be shared but right now we know this much. There will be a limited time to access them and that will be January 2-March 31. Our intention is to have a way for you to share the material with your leaders and we are pretty confident that you won’t be interested in doing that until after the holidays! Because we will need to hire out the editing of the conference, there will be a tier of costs so you can pay just to listen; pay to share with your leaders; or pay to access the material for the first time even though you missed it in September.

Reports, some presentations, and musician contact info from the conference are available here https://www.unitynwregion.org/reports-resources