Event Info & Registration

Please use the Paypal link below to pay for your Event registration online.

Big Faith No Borders Registration
Name of attendees

If you would rather pay by check, your religous educator or con organizer can send it through the mail, please make it out to Mountain Desert District with the name of the con in the memo.


Guidelines and Rules for all Mountain Desert District Youth Events

  1. Each church is required to send one adult for every seven youth.
  2. Participants should take care of themselves; this includes getting adequate rest and meals. Due to health risks obtaining permanent body modifications is inappropriate and not permitted.
  3. We are a caring community. Participation is encouraged in all of the workshops and activities to benefit from all they have to offer. Exclusive behavior is detrimental to the community and is strongly discouraged.
  4. Participants should have consideration and respect for the physical and emotional well-being of the community, hosts and place of gathering. Inappropriate or offensive language or behavior is not conducive to building community.
  5. Single gender rooms as well as a mixed gender room will be provided for sleeping. These are quiet areas on Friday night after the midnight curfew and on Saturday night after 2am.
  6. Participants who intend to arrive late must inform the registrar.

It is the responsibility of the Youth Chair(s) to make these rules clear at orientation:

  1. No drugs, alcohol or tobacco.
  2. No weapons or implement of harm. (This includes laser pointers.)
  3. No sexual or sexualized activity.
  4. No one may leave the youth event boundaries without permission.

Consequences for any participant — youth or adult — who fails to comply with these rules will be determined by the Spirit Committee, and may include: being sent home at your own expense; being placed on probation from youth events for one year; being assigned a peer mentor in order to return to the community.

Posted Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:00 Written by Jess Cullinan

 
 

The registration process has changed! Please read

To make sure the communication lines are clear and you know exactly who is going to cons from your congregation, we make sure con attendees go through you, the Youth Contact/DRE for your congregation, first. Then you can send the completed list from your congregation to the Con Registrar.

The Registration Process in FIVE (moderately) EASY STEPS:

  1. Design a SURVEY MONKEY, or create a GOOGLE FORM, for your con attendees or distribute/collect this PAPER FORM: Youth Registration Form 2012-13. (you can use the survey monkey/google form all year long)

  2. Collect the $45 con registration fee ($30 for Con Planners) from each participant. OR direct participants to the PAYPAL LINK on the MDD site.

  3. Input the information into this REGISTRATION ROSTER: Youth Registration Roster Template (you only have to input a participants info once, then just put a check in the columns for the current event)

  4. Email the registration roster to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  Youth Ministry Specialist

  5. Mail all payments to MDD Main Office with this quick INCOME REPORT: Youth Registration Income Report Template 2012-13

Late registrations make the registrar’s job really messy so please plan ahead.

The YAC recommends securing con/retreat sponsors at the beginning of the church year for all events your congregation plans to attend. It is much easier to secure at least one adult in September for each event than it is to scramble at the registration deadline. It’s important that you send at least one adult from your congregation for every seven youth. If you have more than seven youth and just can’t find that extra adult, you can partner with a neighboring congregation and share a sponsor.

Please DO NOT send individual registrations directly to the Registrar. Below are the district's deadlines for event registration. You may want to assign an earlier congregational deadline to make sure youth/sponsors get their info to you with enough time to meet the district's deadline.

Event registration Deadlines:

Central & Northern Cluster Kick-off (9/28-9/29/12 @ First Universalist Dever) - September 21st

Western Cluster Kick-off (10/12-10/13/12 @ Ogden) - October 5th

Southern Cluster Kick-off (11/2-11/3/12 @ Albuquerque) - October 26th

Beloved Community (1/25-1/28/13 @ Jefferson, CO) - January 7th

Winter Con (2/8-2/10/2013 @ South Valley, UT) - January 21st

Bridging Con (4/12-4/14/13 @ First Unitarian Denver) - April 1st

Pacific Western Region Youth Assembly (4/26-4/28/13 @ San Jose, CA) - March 25th for online AND April 10th for mail in medical/photo release & Code of Ethics

QUUest Camp 2013 Pre-Registration (July 7th-13th) - May 15th

Posted Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:00 Written by Jennica Davis

 
 

Check it out!!! All YRUU Event dates, times and locations in the same place, accessible at anytime!!! You can link it to your own iCal or google calendar.



Posted Monday, 09 January 2012 11:22 Written by Jennica Davis

 
 

Here are some tips and lists to consider when preparing to attend a youth CON:

Eat dinner before you arrive

Please Bring

  • Sleeping bag/blanket
  • Pillow
  • Mat
  • Change of clothes for 2 days
  • Jacket (if traveling outside for a social action project)
  • Toiletries (deodorant, toothbrush/toothpaste etc.)
  • Travel mug
  • Snacks you may need to fit dietary restrictions
  • Prescription medication (to be given to con coordinator)

Optional

  • Ear plugs
  • Musical instruments
  • Cards/games
  • Journal
  • Songs, quotes, readings, objects to contribute to worship
  • Camera
  • MP3 player/speakers

Please Don't Bring:

  • Weapons/implements of harm of any kind (includes utility knives)*
  • Drugs, alcohol, tobacco*
  • Techno distractions (laptops, video games etc.)

*You will be asked to leave the event if you bring these items and don't immediately turn them into the con coordinator

Con/Retreat Details

Check in is at 7pm on Friday and check out is at 9am on Sunday unless otherwise noted. If you plan to arrive later than check in time please notify the Youth Ministry Consultant. If a participant leaves the con/retreat, they unfortunately cannot return to the event.

Have a BLAST!

Posted Friday, 02 September 2011 14:56 Written by Jennica Davis

 
 

Guidelines and Rules for all Mountain Desert District Youth Events

  1. Each church is required to send one adult for every seven youth.
     
  2. Participants should take care of themselves; this includes getting adequate rest and meals. Due to health risks obtaining permanent body modifications is inappropriate and not permitted.
  3. We are a caring community. Participation is encouraged in all of the workshops and activities to benefit from all they have to offer. Exclusive behavior is detrimental to the community and is strongly discouraged.
  4. Participants should have consideration and respect for the physical and emotional well-being of the community, hosts and place of gathering. Inappropriate or offensive language or behavior is not conducive to building community.
  5. Single gender rooms as well as a mixed gender room will be provided for sleeping. These are quiet areas on Friday night after the midnight curfew and on Saturday night after 2am.
  6. Participants who intend to arrive late must inform the registrar.

It is the responsibility of the Youth Chair(s) to make these rules clear at orientation:

  1. No drugs, alcohol or tobacco.
  2. No weapons or implement of harm. (This includes laser pointers.)
  3. No sexual or sexualized activity.
  4. No one may leave the youth event boundaries without permission.

Consequences for any participant — youth or adult — who fails to comply with these rules will be determined by the Spirit Committee, and may include: being sent home at your own expense; being placed on probation from youth events for one year; being assigned a peer mentor in order to return to the community.

    Posted Thursday, 05 August 2010 13:08 Written by Jess Cullinan