Mail-in Registration (Please print)

Early registration by Sept. 15:
Fri. & Sat.: $20 NYSCU delegates
$35 for all others;  Sat. only: $25
After Sept. 15: $50 for all

Please make check payable to NYSCU.

Delegates MUST have signed delegate cards to be reimbursed. Housing stipend for delegates is $30. Mileage is reimbursable at $.27 a mile.
Name:_______________________________
Name on tag:_________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________________
Phone:_______________________________
Email:_______________________________
Delegate:  ___YES    ___NO
Check enclosed:____ Amount__________
Home congregation:
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Workshop preference:
10:45_____    2:30_____

Do you display space?  ___Yes ___No
Organization:_______________________
Put me on the NYSCU mailing list _______

Dietary needs:________________________
Childcare (available Sat.) needed:
Child________________________age______
Child________________________age______

Please mail to:
Jean Ott, NYSCU Annual Mtg.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo
695 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14222
Directions to church:

CAR - NY Thruway (I-90) to Rt. 33 west, to Rt. 198 west, to the Elmwood Ave. South exit.  The church is about 1 mile south on the left. 
Please contact Ed Ware at e.ware@ieee.org for carpooling connections.
PARKING - On-street handicapped parking spaces can be found at the West Ferry St. entrance of the church. You'll find street parking within a block of the church, nearby on Elmwood or West Ferry. On Elmwood Ave., the meters are 25 cents/30 min. Friday & Saturday. The church does not have its own parking lot.
AIR - Buffalo Niagara International Airport is located outside the city just off Route 33. Airlines providing service are American, AirTran, Continental, JetBlue, Northwest, Southwest, USAir, United and others. Complimentary 24-hour airport shuttle offered by Holiday Inn.
BUS - Greyhound and Trailways provide service to Buffalo. The station is about 1 mile from the hotel and about 3 miles from the church. Taxi fare to hotel is $5.
RAIL - Amtrack has a station in downtown Buffalo. Taxi fare to hotel is $5 - $8.
Hotel Information:

Holiday Inn
620 Delaware Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 886-2121 or (800) HOLIDAY
www.hibuffalodowntown.com

$79.00/night, free parking, free wireless internet connection
This hotel has offered us the above special conference rate – please ask for NYSCU rate when making your reservations. The rate is good only until Friday Oct. 7, 2006. Rooms are not held after this date.

Directions to the hotel: Follow directions to the church then take left on West Ferry at the church; go to next light; take right onto Delaware and go 3/4 mile and hotel is on the right side.

Delegates MUST have signed delegate cards to be reimbursed. Housing stipend for delegates is $30. Mileage is reimbursable at $.27/mile.

Other Hotels:
Beau Fleuve Bed & Breakfast Inn
242 Linwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
(716) 882-6616

Best Western Inn on the Avenue
510 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 886-8333 or (888) 868-3033
www.innontheavenue.com

The Mansion on Delaware Ave.
414 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 886-3300 www.mansiondelaware.com
New York State
Convention
Of
Universalists

177th Annual Meeting
October 21-22, 2005

Unitarian Universalist
Church of Buffalo
Celebrating 100 years
on Elmwood
1905 - 2005
695 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14222
(716) 885-2136

Visit www.nyscu.org and
www.uuchurch.buffalo.ny.uua.org
Schedule:

Friday Oct. 21
(at hotel)
7:00 – 9:00 pm Reception

Saturday Oct. 22
(at church)
8:00 am - Registration & 
          Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - Opening Worship
Rev. Joel Miller

9:45 am - Keynote Speaker
Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt

10:30 am  - Break

10:45 am – Workshops

12:00 pm – Lunch

1:30 pm - 177th Annual meeting

2:30 pm – Workshops

4:00 pm - Closing Worship 
           Rev. Tom Chulak

Workshops:
All workshops are based on NYSCU funded projects.
10:45 AM

1.	Keynote Speaker’s roundtable
Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt
Come discuss the keynote address.

2.	UU Radio Hour:
Dorothy Hoskins & Rev. Carl Thitchener, UU Church of Canandaigua
For the past year, on behalf of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Canandaigua, we have been producing a weekly radio program, “The Liberal Religious Hour.” Its purpose is to increase public understanding of Unitarian Universalist principles and values as well as serving the public interest by featuring guests representing other community organizations. It has been aired at 8:30am every Sunday on 5 radio stations in New York State and is also heard all week long, world wide, on the Internet at UUradio.org. Come and hear the story of the UU Radio Project and learn how you and your congregation can also become involved.

3.	Space Walks and Other Adventures: Your Building in Your Community
Lisa Horne, DRE,
Margaret Maguire, Chair, Finance Committee UU Society of Oneonta

Acquiring new space and transforming old space are expensive, multiyear projects that require vision, leadership and a wide array of technical skills.  In this workshop we will see examples of ways to change our physical plant, and as a result, to change the way we see ourselves and the way our larger communities see us.

2:30 PM

4.	Faith – Fairness – Family:
Interfaith Impact Reframes the Issues in New York State.
Rev. Dick Gilbert

A workshop on effectiveness in social advocacy based on UU principles. States are the laboratories for social justice work. For over a decade Interfaith Impact of NYS has been working in Albany. In this workshop we’ll share our learning and invite you to join us.

5.	RAIHN - Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network, www.raihn.org
Alain Perregaux, chair of IHN committee Universalist Church of Rochester

Interfaith Hospitality Network is a national organization whose purpose is to help homeless families regain sustainable independence. It has done so for 18 years through more than 100 local networks, including ones in Rochester and Buffalo. First Universalist Church is a member of the Rochester area network.

A full time social worker provides case management during normal working hours. Meals and overnight facilities are offered by religious congregations that take turns hosting families in their building.

The workshop will describe the program and the work that has been done in Rochester over the past three years, followed by open discussion.

6.	The Journals of John Mather Austin Rev. Ken and Audrey Mochel;
Karen Dau, archivist of the NYSCU.

The Rev. John Mather Austin was minister of the Universalist Society of Auburn (1844-1851) and editor of the designated newspaper of the NYSCU from 1851 to 1861.  He believed, preached, and lived a Universalism of salvation to all as he labored against the death penalty and war; and for abolitionism, women's rights, prison reform, and the Underground RR. What can we learn from his life and writings that will benefit our UU-ism today as we face similar issues?
Keynote Speaker:

Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt

Minister of 4th Universalist Society
New York City

Theme:
“The Church in the World”

It's time to reclaim our
historic mission of spreading
the good news of liberal religion.

Let's change lives
&
change the world.