EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President
Vice-President
Treasurer
Secretary General
Judicial Chair
Membership Chair
Interfaith Chair
Youth and Young Adult Chair
General Council
Lara Amyx
Agustin Arellano
Andrea Barnes
Lawrence J. Bowman
Dana Bredemeyer
Robert Bruyn
Linda Buselli
Robert Burns
Barry Clark
Emilio Coppola
Lila Dogim
Stephen Dreier
Janet Falbo
Tony Finstad
Cece Forrester
Janet Graham
John Hales
John Hay
Tim Hobbs
Merritt Horn
Paul Klaver
Michelle Klemish
David Kulieke
Charlene Morrow
Dolores L. Nice
Charles Olivea
Teuvo Orjala
Thomas Orjala
Cristina Seaborn
Cayce Snider
Paula Thompson
Angie Thurston
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Our Newly Re-designed Website Has Launched!
![]() For nearly 20 years The Urantia Book Fellowship has given The Urantia Book a presence on the World Wide Web. Our site is the
premier site for Urantian scholarship and study, representing nearly
100 years of Urantia Movement history and 57 years of active study and
scholarship.
We are excited to present this
new site offering a more robust interactive platform that features a
comprehensive online catalog, member forums, easy access to online
resources and a beautiful design aesthetic.
The new
site will retain the functionality of the old site but it will take us a
few weeks to get everything reordered. Thanks for your patience!
The new site also
allows us to better track what resources people are
using and what resources are not being used so we can foreground
and enhance those services that readers like and use the most. www.urantiabook.org
How to Login: If you are a member of The Urantia Book
Fellowship, it's very likely that we have already registered you on the
new site. If that is the case, you should be able to login with
your username and password, both of which for is your email
address. Your email address is your unique identifier on the site and is
definitely case sensitive. If we have already registered you, we used
what we had on record, therefore if you can't login using your email
address please fill out a "contact us" form (found on the site header or
footer) to let us know. We'll fix it and get back to you. Once you log
in, we recommend that you change your login information to whatever you
prefer. Even if you are not a member, we encourage you to go ahead and
register. Being registered at the site will create a site account for
you and save you time. If you don't want to register,
but don't worry, you don't have to be registered or logged in to access most of the resources.
If you
do register or login the first thing you will see is your landing
page. The landing page gives you access to site resources. To navigate
back to the main site from the landing page, just click "home" on the
center navigation bar, to go back to your landing page, click "my
account" on the header navigation bar. Note: If you are a
study group leader, your landing page should give you the option to
update your own study group information.
Membership: Being
a member of the Fellowship gives you access to member forums, book
discounts and online resources that are not available to everyone. If
you are not a member of the Fellowship and would like
to learn more, click here: MEMBERSHIP. Membership in the Fellowship is free.
Finding Problems: If
you notice broken links, missing materials, or other issues, please
fill out the "contact us" form. We really appreciate user
feedback. If you find a problem please let us where it is so we can
easily find it and fix it. The previous site is still available
here: http://www.ubfellowship.org/
We have also recently acquired www.urantiabook.com so very soon that will get you to our site too. | ![divider]()
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![]() Funding Available to Urantia Societies Through Fellowship Grants Based on a Triennial Delegate Assembly resolution, the General Council of The Urantia Book
Fellowship has agreed to grant resources to local Urantia Societies for
various outreach and community projects. If you are a member of a
Urantia Society and would like to know more you can access the Society
Grant Policy, Procedure and Application here: ![divider]()
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![]() The Fellowship's General Council to Meet in LA, Feb. 2013
The General Council of The Urantia Book
Fellowship will hold its midyear meeting at the LAX Sheraton on Feb
8-10, 2013. Unless otherwise stated, Council meetings are typically open
for spectators if you are interested. There is a meet and greet planned
on Saturday night at the hotel for local Urantia Book readers. For more information call the Fellowship office at 303-467-7858.
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Two seats are now open on the Fellowship's General Council
Recent
resignations on the Fellowship's General Council have opened up two
seats. The Council will be meeting in Los Angeles, the weekend of
February 6-10, 2013. If you would like be considered for leadership
service in this "amazing organization" please fill out this form: Application for Organizational Service and send it to the Fellowship office via:
Fax - 303-403-4091
Email - fellowship@urantiabook.org
Snail Mail - Fellowship, PO Box 6631, Broomfield, CO 80021
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Youth and Young Adult Committee Annual Report 2012
2012 was the first full year that the Youth and Young Adult Committee was funded as a standing committee of The Urantia Book Fellowship. This is our purpose as defined in our constitution: Section
11.18. The Youth and Young Adult Committee: The Youth and Young Adult
Committee serves the Fellowship by recruiting and engaging youth and
young adults to actively participate in the growth and health of our
community. It is tasked with the development of programs that attract
and encourage the involvement of youth and young adults within the
Fellowship. To this end, we feel the YaYA committee had a very successful year! We
began the year with a conference of younger readers in Boulder and
ended the year with a conference in Santa Cruz. We enjoyed a summer
conference in Chicago that included staying at the Urantia Foundation
and socializing with the First Society. Many of these attendees then
went on to participate in the Summer Study Session at Techny Towers,
which added a noticeable increase of younger participants from previous
years. The
Youth and Young Adult committee also helped out in its first
international conference with our involvement at the Berlin Gathering of
Urantia Book Readers. There's a
growing population of younger readers wanting to be more active in the
European community and the Fellowship was recognized and appreciated for
our assistance. Aside from our regional gatherings, we stayed connected with increased communications through our website - Urantia Now: http://urantianow.com/.
More and more visitors are discovering this creative UB site that is
designed for attracting the younger readers and engaging them with
interactive formatting. Our committee produced our first video. It's a five minute introduction to The Urantia Book. We feel this is an important medium to promote the Fellowshipʼs
name recognition and branding. Besides its availability on youtube and
our website, we will be showing it at our campus outreach book booths.
We made advances in our presence at different colleges this year and
look to making more progress and inroads in 2013. We continue to develop our Family Life adjunct committee. We had a panel presentation at SSS12 and weʼre
currently gathering materials to be electronically formatted for
posting on our website. Our goal is to communicate to the larger
community that these valuable resources are available for families and
that young parents will have access to on-line study, socialization, and
a support network. This adjunct committee will be making significant
contributions at IC14. Two
of our committee members, Teuvo Orjala and Angie Thurston, were elected
to the General Council this summer and this immediately gives our
organization a more youthful representation. Our committee is a training
ground for future leaders of the Fellowship. We ask for a weekly
commitment of time from our committee members to achieve our goals of
spreading the Urantia Book and its teachings. To end the year we created a YaYA Holiday Card that was sent out to our entire Fellowship email list. The theme was ʻThe Twelve Days of Christmas - Urantia Styleʼ. Each day of Christmas supplies a link to one of our committees accomplishments this year. I've added the Holiday Card below this report for those who wish to have more detailed information on our committeeʼs activities. At the very bottom thereʼs a link to our new video. In
closing, we feel blessed to have this opportunity to help advance this
amazing revelation to an age group that is actively searching for truth
and pursuing lifeʼs higher meanings. We thank
the Fellowship for its generous support of our new committee and for
working together as we strive to achieve our collective purpose. The Youth and Young Adult Committee: Anthony Finstad - chair Mae Thompson Teuvo Orjala Angie Thurston Geoff Theiss Liz Craig Adjunct members: Mike MacIsaac - International Ashlee Pierce - Truthseekers Janet Graham - Family Life Miranda Clendening - Family Life
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Happy Holidays from The Fellowship's Youth and Young Adult (YaYA) Committee! ![]() Even
though Jesus was born in August, we thought we'd get into the Christmas
spirit and honor him with a Urantia rendition of the Twelve Days of
Christmas!Here are some of the gifts we were blessed to receive this year:On the first day of Christmas in our community, The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the second day of Christmas in our community, two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the third day of Christmas in our community, three times more visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the fourth day of Christmas in our community, four new college outreach sites, three times more visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youthand Young Adult Committee!On the fifth day of Christmas in our community, five days at the Foundation, four new college outreach sites, three times more visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the sixth day of Christmas in our community, six regional youth conferences, five days at the Foundation, four new college outreach sites, three times more visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the seventh day of Christmas in our community, seven days of Truthseekers, six regional youth conferences, five days at the Foundation, four new college outreach sites, threetimes more visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the eighth day of Christmas in our community, eight months of UB Chat,
seven days of Truthseekers, six regional youth conferences, five days
at the Foundation, four new college outreach sites, three times more
visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the ninth day of Christmas in our community, nine new youth initiatives,
eight months of UB Chat, seven days of Truthseekers, six regional youth
conferences, five days at the Foundation, four new college outreach
sites, three times more visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the tenth
day of Christmas in our community, ten new print designs, nine new
youth initiatives, eight months of UB Chat, seven days of Truthseekers,
six regional youth conferences, five days at the Foundation, four new
college outreach sites, three times more visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the eleventh day of Christmas in our community, eleven youth at the Summer Study Session,
ten new print designs, nine new youth initiatives, eight months of UB
Chat, seven days of Truthseekers, six regional youth conferences, five
days at the Foundation, four new college outreach sites, three times
more visitors to UrantiaNow.com and two new GeneralCouncilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee!On the twelfth day of Christmas in our community, twelve months in the making: our brand new UB video intro!
eleven youth at the Summer Study Session, ten new print designs, nine
new youth initiatives, eight months of UB Chat, seven days of
Truthseekers, six regional youth conferences, five days at the
Foundation, four new college outreach sites, three times more visitors
to UrantiaNow.com and two new General Councilors from The Youth and Young Adult Committee! ![divider]()
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Reminders
The Summer Study Session 2013 - Reminder
![]() The Urantia Book Fellowship's 2013 Summer Study Session will be back at Techny Towers, North of Chicago, IL, again in 2013.
Look for registration and program details early in 2013.
Please support The Urantia Book
Fellowship! You can make a secure onetime contribution online at our
website, Click Here or perhaps consider giving a 'gift that keeps on
giving' by agreeing to make an affordable monthly donation (auto-debit
donation) that is automatically deducted from your bank account
(available by clicking the above link). As always, we'll send a deluxe
leather Urantia Book to all new monthly auto-debit donors who pledge to make at least a $20.00 monthly donation or a onetime equivalent. |
From The Membership Committee
Are
you a member of The Urantia Book Fellowship? Maybe you're not sure? If
not please contact us and we'll let you know. Contact Membership by
clicking here.
If
you would like to become a member please click on this link and fill
out the easy online membership form. Your credentials will be sent to
the Membership Committee for consideration.
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