Who We Are

For more information about Unitarian Universalism and how those with related beliefs or educational programs can use this site, click here.

Introduction
Our Mission
The REC-Room Team
Other Volunteers

A volunteer team of Unitarian Universalist (UU) religious educators first met in the fall of 1997 to develop a place on the internet where UU curriculum materials can be contributed, accessed and reviewed. With the help of grants from the Unitarian Universalist Sunday School Society and the Fund for Unitarian Universalists (see acknowledgements), we have been able to develop the site that you see at present. REC-Room is a grassroots effort and not a department of the UUA.

Our goal is to collect and organize feedback from religious educators on curricula they have used with a:

* Forum to share uncopyrighted materials

* Summary of UU & UU-related curriculum materials

* Place for users to give suggestions, comments, improvements

Our Mission is:

To bring together Unitarian Universalist religious educators (MREs, DREs, and teachers) from around the world and make their combined knowledge and experience universally available via modern electronic means. To help local and district religious educators:

   (1) select curricular resources that meet the needs of their religious education programs;
   (2) adapt those resources to best maximize the free and responsible search for truth and meaning among Unitarian Universalist children, youth, and adults; and
   (3) improve existing curricula and develop new curricular materials.

The REC-Room Team is a group of volunteers who wish to help with the decision-making for this web site, which includes but is not limited to site design, content, management, and fundraising. If you would like to join or have questions for this team, please click on the link to their names and send them an email message or email rec-room at rec-room.org (replace the "at" with "@" & use the subject "REC-Room" to prevent spam and help assure that your message is not mistaken for spam).

The Steering Committee consists of a chair, a vice-chair, a secretary-treasurer, and two additional members (links to names go to email, but require javascript to protect them from spam.:

Terry Stafford, Chair
    DRE
    Beacon Unitarian Church, Coquitlam, B.C.
    TEAM: Graphics/Logo

Joyce Dowling, Secretary/Treasurer
    Religious educator, Webweaver, Email list manager
    Davies Memorial UU Church, Camp Springs MD
    TEAM: team & teacher email list manager,

Helen Zidowecki
   MRE, RE Consultant, NED
   Maine
   TEAM: UUA liaison

Additional Team Members are:

Betty Skwarek (founding member)
    Former DRE & Chair, Pacific Southwest District RE Committee
    Summit UU Fellowship, El Cajon CA
    TEAM: Former Chair

Jeff Liebmann (founding member)
    High School RE Teacher, Youth Advisor, Curricula Author
    First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA
    TEAM: Senior High Email List Manager, liason to LREWORD, Survey

Margy Levine Young
    Member of ECC, RE teacher
    Champlain Valley UU Society, VT
    TEAM: liaison to ECC, Junior High Email LIst Manager

R. William Woodruff ("Woody")
    Internet Professional, Software Developer
    Church of the Larger Fellowship (PA)

Carl Hommel
    RE Teacher
    First Parish of Groton, Mass

Johanna "Honnie" Staples
   RE Teacher, Former District YAC Adult Chair
   Youth Programming for Ohio-Meadville District Summer Institute Family Retreat
   First Unitarian Church of Toledo in Ohio

Jeff Lamicela
   Youth Advisor, Professional Web Developer
   May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, Syracuse, NY

Elissa Joan
    Student at Meadville/Lombard, Web developer/programmer
    High Street UUC, Macon, GA

Ellyn Lentz
    Religious Educator
    May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, Syracuse, NY

Kappy Paulsen
    Adult RE Committee Member
    UU Church of Ventura, CA

Jane Podell
    Director of Religious Education
    Poughkeepsie, NY

Jim Hermann
    Internet Service Provider
    Elgin, Illinois

Additional volunteers for REC-Room

We ask readers of Reach-l, the UUA's email list for religious educators, to locate resources within the discussion on the list that can be posted on the site. If they're suggestions for books or links, you can post them yourself. If they're unique ideas or curricula, please send a reminder to the poster (or the entire list as a reminder) to please add it to the site. A list of correspondents who have registered to add information to the site is here.

Click here for other ways that you can help.