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The Unitarian General Assmebly Annual Meetings are on this weekend. The Minister's Conference starts tomorrow and then the main meetings on Friday. I'm not staying for the whole conference this year (I'm not staying away from my congregation on Palm Sunday). So I'm not going to be live blogging exactly. I'll do some reporting when I get back. Anyone else want to do some live blogging? Anyone?

I'm presuming some people will be Twittering hashtag #GAUK?

To be honest I'm not sure there's anything terribly exciting going to be happening. I don't know if it's just me, but GA's feel more boring than they used to. I might be suprised.

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Anonymous said…
SL wrote: "I don't know if it's just me, but GA's feel more boring than they used to. I might be suprised."

I doubt if it is just you :)!
10:38 am
Roberta Wedge said…
I went last year for the first time, and started the hashtag #GAUK. I'll keep a feed open this weekend, in case anyone picks up on it. It would be good to hear what's going on. I went to the General Assembly once, with the intention of going once, and this year two new members of our congregation are taking their turn.
2:11 pm
Scott Wells said…
Anything interesting going on?
3:16 am
Scott Wells said…
Anything interesting going on there?
3:16 am
Neasy said…
Well it was my first GA and I loved it. Though, to be fair, we had the total buzz of having our congregation (Bangor) officially accepted as a "small congregation" which was wonderful. Also, I went a bit mad and made a banner which I was *so* proud of. It was ace.
6:43 pm
Neasy said…
Plus I tried tweeting but a) there was no signal most of the time and then b) my mobile phone battery upped and died on me. Still, I enjoyed it as far as I could.
6:44 pm
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