Honorary Chair
Maria Sinkford

Advisory Committee
Barbara Beach, Chair

Cathy Cordes
UU Partner Church Council

Rev. Dr. Dorothy Emerson
UU Women and Religion

Elissa Goss
YRUU, First UU Church Houston

Gay Ann Gustafson
UUSC National Volunteer Network

Rev. Olivia Holmes
International Assn of Liberal Religious Women

Rev. Carol Huston
Women's Rights Worldwide and
Community Unitarian Church
White Plains, New York

Arlene Johnson
UU Women’s Federation

Rev. Jill McAllister
International Council of Unitarians and Universalists

Rosemary Matson
1980 W&R Convocation

Prof. Christine Nielsen
Women's Rights Worldwide and Buhata Pinay Program,
UU Church of Annapolis

Rev. Shirley Ranck
Cakes for the Queen of Heaven

Rev. Rebecca Quimada Sienes
Buhata Pinay Program
UU Church of the Philippines

Rev. Addae L. Watson
Universalist Church, Southold, New York

Amy Youngblood
Southwest UU Women

Rev. Dr. Helen Zidowecki
UU Women’s Heritage Society

 Mary Overton
Executive Director

Laura Nagel
Administrator

Thursday, February 26 to Sunday, March 1, 2009
Houston, Texas, USA

The goals of the Convocation are to gather together to:

  • Discover common interests, emergent ideas and future priorities;
  • Worship together, connecting spiritually with our individual and collective power, caring and humility;
  • Explore the major challenges that lie before all women around the globe.
  • Learn from women’s accomplishments and how their work has improved women’s lives;
  • Showcase vibrant, relevant model programs to empower women; and
  • Create personal action plans to enrich and transform our lives, while expanding opportunities for women’s equality, development, social justice, security and peace.
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    Gather Together to Explore Ways We Can Improve Women’s Lives around the World…

    The call we hear today is not unlike the one issued nearly a century and a half ago, by Julia Ward Howe:

    Arise all women who have hearts…Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel…Let us then solemnly take coun­sel with each other as the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.

    We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

    Wangari Maatha
    Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2004
    Thanks to the Fund for International Unitarian Universalism and the Fund for Unitarian Universalism for their generous grants to support the Convocation.