The Urantia Book Fellowship will hold its Summer Study Session of 2010 from July 22 – 25 at Techny Towers, a conference and retreat center located on Chicago’s North Shore. The conference theme, “God Consciousness and Cosmic Morality: Living the Gospel” has already drawn the attention of a number of experienced readers of the UB who have volunteered to lead workshops that will provide participants the opportunity to engage in in-depth discussion of topics related to that theme. The Fellowship’s Education Committee, responsible for organizing the event, promises to continue the tradition of high quality study experienced last summer. Lara Amyx, a member of the Education Committee and the conference program coordinator, says that some of the workshop leaders indicated that they will require advance preparation and pre-registration for their sessions.

Beyond study, there will be ample opportunity for experiences designed to “generate a feeling of fellowship with the divine.” (Pg 1133; P 103.4.1).   According to Bobbie Dreier, who is in charge of the conference worship activities, “the campus has spacious and peaceful grounds for reflection and lovely chapels for meditation, prayer and worship.” The plenary sessions will open, in the spirit of communion, with activities designed to lead us Godward, and the conference will culminate with a morning of inspirational music, poetry reading, meditation and a remembrance of our Creator brother Michael.

For the first time in recent memory,organized programs will be available for children age 3 and up. “We felt it was important to do so in order to make the experience available to parents of young children and to the children themselves,” says Lila Dogim, chairperson of the Education Committee.

The day prior to the beginning of the conference will be made available to a pre-conference spiritual retreat and to an organized tour of Chicago.

The Education Committee,which had gathered for a meeting at Techny Towers a few months ago, considers the place to be ideal for the summer gathering. Built in the early 20th century as a seminary for the Society of the Divine Word, it is today an ecumenical conference center fostering creativity and strategic thinking.  For more information on Techny Towers, go to www.Technytowers.org.