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Unitarian Universalist Glossary
We UUs (Unitarian Universalists) are very fond of creating acronyms and jargon.
Here is a list to help you through our alphabet soup:
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AIW - Actions of Immediate Witness, events of immediate political concern to this annual assembly.
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APF - Annual Program Fund of the UUA.
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B & G - Building and Grounds
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BOLD Justice -Broward Organized Leaders Doing Justice
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BOT - The UUA Board of Trustees.
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CFP - Lifenet4Families - Cooperative Feeding Program of Broward
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CLF - The Church of the Larger Fellowship.
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Cluster - Any of several geographic subdivisions of a UUA District.
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COL - Circle of Light Christian Group at the River of Grass UU Congregation.
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COM - Committe on Ministry
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CON - a Teen Conference held by YRUU.
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CSAI - Congregational Study/Action Issues which may later be voted upon as a UUA Statement of Conscience or SOC.
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CSW - Commission on Social Witness shepherds CSAI through our legislative process.
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CU2C2 - Council of Unitarian Universalist Camps & Conferences.
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CUUPS - Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans.
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DFD - Director of Faith Development, new name for DRE.
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District - Any one of 20 geographic subdivisions of the UUA.
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DR - District Representative, appointed leader of a UUA District.
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DRE - Director of Religious Education.
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EFI - Endowment Funds, Inc of UUCFL
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GA - General Assembly, annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists.
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GLBT - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender.
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GRID - An event is "On the Grid" when you must show your GA Registration to get in.
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HUUPLA - Hard Core Unitarian Universalist Peoples Large Assembly, a gathering to keep the Youth Caucus and their sponsors updated on what's unfolding at GA.
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OWL - Our Whole Lives, a life-span sexuality curriculum created by the UUA and United Church of Christ or UCC.
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PC - Planning Committee that prepares the agenda for each GA.
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PC - Political Correctness, the right thing to say as of this moment.
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Plenary - Complete in all respects.
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RE - Religious Education, for children, teens and adults.
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ROG - River of Grass Unitarian Congregation located in the western half of this county.
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SLT - Service of the Living Tradition, held Thursday at 8 PM. Don't miss it.
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SOC - Statement of Conscience, voted on by the delegates at this assembly.
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SUUSI - The Southeast Unitarian Universalist Summer Institute.
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SWIM - The Southeast Unitarian Universalist Winter Institute at Miami.
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UUA - The Unitarian Unitarian Association.
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UUBF - Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship.
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UUCF - Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship.
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UUCFL - The Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale.
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UUMA - The Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association.
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UUSC - The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.
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YC - Youth Caucus, the umbrella term for all youth (ages 14-20) programming that happens at General Assembly.
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YRUU - Young Religious Unitarian Universalists, our teen program.
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