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(Dan Abel), if that's their real name, wrote:

>The one thing that all UUs have in common is that they are all different.
>
>:-)
>
>Some churches are very intellectual and some are more spiritual. Some
>attempt to appeal to both, so that if you just go a few times you may only
>see one side of them. My wife and daughter have gone to the last four UU
>national conferences. At the first one, in Quebec, the youth services
>were very intellectual. My daughter and her friend weren't happy with
>this, and decided that they could do better. So they applied to be in
>charge of youth services, and were accepted. They did a service every
>night at the conference in Boston the next year, and one was for both
>youth and adults. They had 1400 attendees, and my daughter taught them a
>simple song. They videotaped it, and I was pretty amazed.

Sounds like your daughter is pretty resourceful! It's great that she could
change the slant of the services so that they'd be more meaningful to her,
and a lot of others, too.

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_