Issue 36: February 2007, Page 7

Thoughts from the Lifespan Program Director:

Mission and Vision

Rev. Phillip Lund

There’s a new development in the Lifespan Program Area that I’d like you to know about — the premiere of a monthly electronic newsletter that I’ll be sending out to religious educators, youth advisors, and RE contacts in congregations around the district called Lifespan Faith Developments. The first issue was sent directly to all of the email addresses we have of folks working with children and youth. According to the report generated by the service we’re using to send the newsletter, the email containing the newsletter was successfully delivered to 75 of the 78 religious educator and youth advisor addresses it was sent to. However, only 41 of the 75 recipients actually opened the message. So, if you don’t remember opening a message with the subject line “News from Prairie Star Lifespan Faith Development” sent from my e-mail address (plund@psduua.org), please check your old messages and your junk mail folder.

Subscribe to the Lifespan Newsletter

The reason it’s important for you to take a look at these newsletters is they’re going to be my primary way of getting information about lifespan faith development in Prairie Star out to the congregations. Of course, the newsletter is not for religious educators or youth advisors only. Ministers and lay leaders who would like to be informed about lifespan programming in the district are welcome to subscribe to the newsletter, too. Just send a message asking to subscribe to plund@psduua.org, and you’ll receive a new issue of the newsletter on the first of every month.

To give you some idea of the kind of information the newsletter will contain, here’s one of the articles from the January issue.

Workshop Cancellation Policy Considered

One of the main tasks of the Prairie Star’s Lifespan Faith Development Council is to make sure that District religious educators, youth advisors, and Our Whole Lives facilitators have a reasonable number of opportunities for continuing education and trainings. Unfortunately, when these trainings are undersubscribed, the District has to pick up the costs. In an effort to keep those costs to a minimum, the LFDC is considering the following Cancellation Policy:

OWL trainings must have a minimum of 12 paid registrations one month prior to the scheduled training date or else the training will be cancelled.
Renaissance Modules and Youth Advisor Trainings must have a minimum of 8 paid registrations one month prior to the scheduled training date or else the module or training will be cancelled.
If a training is cancelled because of low registrations, the LFDC will provide scholarship money for religious educators, youth advisors, and OWL facilitators to help cover the cost of going outside of the District for an similar training.

As you can see, this is good information for religious educators and youth advisors to have. So please keep an eye out for the next issue of Lifespan Faith Developments. And if you’re not receiving it and would like to, let me know.

If you are interested in having an
Exhibit
at the PSD Annual Conference,
an application is available at
Annual Conference
or call the District office 612-230-3272.

Boone

the annual PSD Youth Con

May 4–6, 2007
Boone, Iowa
Registration materials at
Youth.Boone

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