2023 MISSION u
Be nurtured
and encouraged
Welcome to Mission u, a transformative experience designed to recharge and refocus your faith. Offering study on biblically grounded curricula, Mission u motivates, informs, and enriches our commitment to create a more just and equitable world, locally and globally. To learn more about Mission u, download and print a brochure.
What's New This Year?
This year we are excited to offer both in-person and virtual options. There will be a youth component at the in-person event.
Mission u reflects the theology of The United Methodist Church and the practice of joining personal holiness with social holiness. Through worship, in-depth study, music, prayer, sharing and exploring, we invite you to grow with us in understanding the mission of the church.
West Ohio Mission u is sponsored by the the West Ohio United Women in Faith and West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church
In-person Option
w/Youth Component
Friday, June 16--Sunday, June 18
Mt. St. John
Bergamo Center for Life Long Learning
4400 Shakertown Rd.
Cost
$200/person: single room (includes meals)
$160/person: double room (includes meals)
$65/commuter (includes lunch and dinner)
$15/youth (includes off-site lodging and food)
Registration: April 1 thru June 1
Virtual Options (via Zoom)
Wednesdays, July 5 thru 26
7:00pm
Thursdays, July 6 thru 27
10am
Cost
$25/person
Registration: April 1 thru June 23
Adult Curriculum
“Living the Kin-dom: Exploring the Lord’s Prayer as a Spiritual Practice for Social Transformation. This curriculum explores the Lord’s Prayer as it is recorded in Matthew 6:9-13. It is an invitation to take a deeper look at the prayer and the role it plays in our faith journeys. Moving from personal to communal application, the curriculum explores how the Lord’s Prayer helps us “live the kin-dom” and become a reflection of God’s love to the world.”
Purchase the book, “Living the Kin-dom” at www.umwmissionresources.org; cost: $14.99 +shipping
Amazon (Kindle); cost: $5.95
Youth Curriculum
“Seek and You Shall Find: Living in the Kin-dom”. In this youth curriculum the overarching theme is teaching youth to find the kin-dom within the world around them and how to live what they have learned. Each of the eight sessions builds upon the one before it to introduce participants to finding the kin-dom in the world around them, and how to tell others about the kin-dom.
All materials will be supplied for youth attending Mission u.
Scholarships
United Women in Faith Martha Scholarships
These scholarships are provided by the West Ohio United Women in Faith. They are available for first time attendees who are members of United Women in Faith. This covers the cost of a double room occupancy (meals included).
Mission u Scholarships
This is a partial scholarship for up to $100 for anyone who needs help with the registration fee for the in-person option, June 16-18. It is provided through the West Ohio Mission u Scholarship Fund.
Register
Register by clicking the button below to download and print the registration form.
Schedule
2023 Mission u – June 16-18, 2023
Friday, June 16, 2023
3:30 - Planning team arrives at Bergamo Center 4:00 – Check in for youth at Mosaic UMC
5:00 – Registration opens
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Dinner
7:00 - 7:45 p.m. Opening Plenary and Worship (Roncalli Chapel)
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. – Class Sessions (Roncalli, Saragossa, Darby*, Barrett, Hoelle) 9:45 p.m. – Quilt Top Crafting
Saturday, June 17, 2023
7:30 – 8:15 a.m. – Continental Breakfast (coffee, tea, cocoa available by 6:30 a.m. in cafeteria)
8:30 – 9:15 – Plenary (Roncalli)
9:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Class Sessions (Roncalli, Saragossa, Darby, Barrett, Hoelle)
12 noon – 2 p.m. – Lunch & Soul-Care Time
2:15 – 4:15 p.m. – Class Sessions (Roncalli, Saragossa, Darby, Barrett, Hoelle) 4:30 p.m. – Plenary Session – “Listening to the Voices of Young People” (Roncalli) 6 p.m. – Dinner - staggered seating (5:30, 5:40, 5:50)
7:30 p.m. – “The Indigenous I Am” with Rev. Fred Shaw (Roncalli)
8:45 p.m. - Quilt Top Crafting
Sunday, June 18 2023
7:30 – 8:15 a.m. – Full Breakfast (coffee, tea, cocoa available by 6:30 a.m. in cafeteria) 8:30 a.m. Plenary (Roncalli)
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Class Sessions (Roncalli, Saragossa, Darby, Barrett, Hoelle)
11:15 a.m. – Wild Church – outside venue if weather permits
12:30 - Adjournment