Delegate Selection:

Selección de delegada

All Provincial Chairs have received a letter inviting them to work with women’s leaders in their province to select a delegate.  The Provincial Chair is responsible for submitting this name to the Unity Women’s Desk Office.  They can do this using the form below.

Deadline for delegate submission:  July 15, 2024.

The Unity Women’s Desk will then contact the sister who was selected and begin arrangements for visa and travel, as well as how the delegate can prepare to participate on behalf of her province.

Each province should support their delegate through prayer, assistance preparing reports and presentations, financial and logistical support traveling to their international departure point, and sharing information as widely as possible when the delegate returns home after the consultation.

DELEGATE QUALIFICATIONS:

-Your delegate should be a member of a Moravian congregation and actively involved in service with and for the women of your Province/Mission Province.

-Your delegate should be committed to serving girls and women as a way to build the whole  body of Christ in our churches. Please be prepared to share examples of her commitment.

-Your delegate should possess knowledge in at least one Focus Area of the UWD—Education, Violence against Women, Entrepreneurship and Overcoming Poverty, Health Issues of Women

and Children, Parenting for Justice, Women in Ministry. She does not need formal training in a focus area, but she should be familiar with the relevant issues in your province.

-Delegates should be comfortable communicating with their local provincial leaders, giving presentations/speaking to women’s groups and others in their local congregation and province.

-Delegates should be comfortable communicating with English-speakers. We will have interpreters for Spanish and Swahili sessions during the consultation, but English will be the

common language for most delegates. If a delegate is not able to speak in English, she should at least be comfortable using google translate on her phone so she can interact with others.

-Delegates should be comfortable using technology to stay in touch with other delegates and to do research on resources available to women in their local contexts. Your delegate does not

need to be an EXPERT in technology, but she should be eager and able to learn to use it. We will offer sessions in using google forms/google docs/ZOOM and group video chats on  WHATSAPP/using email - and also using Facebook to stay in touch and share.

-Delegates should be healthy enough to travel and to participate without risking her own health.

OTHER PARTICIPANTS at the CONSULTATION:

- SECOND DELEGATES: Your province may select a SECOND delegate, but the UWD can only assist with the costs of ONE delegate per province. Additional delegate information should also be submitted by July 15, 2024.

- CONSULTATION PLANNING TEAM/UWD LEADERS: The UWD will pay for the costs of a team of approx. 25 sisters who are planning and leading the consultation. All of these also serve as volunteer coordinators and leaders for the UWD. This team is in place and working hard.

-OBSERVERS/GUESTS: There will NOT be space available for OBSERVERS/Guests at Laurel Ridge Conference Center - June 1 through 5. June 6 (evening) through the afternoon of Sunday June 8, we will hold celebration and sharing sessions in Winston-Salem. All are welcome - at their own expense. We will list recommended hotels on the consultation website, but GUESTS must make their own hotel and transportation arrangements. We will post a separate registration link for GUESTS on the Consultation Website in early 2025.