The Fox Valley Association

Spring Annual Meeting

Saturday, April 28, 2018

8:30 a.m. (Registration & Continental Breakfast) – 12:00 p.m. (Lunch)

"Love in Action - Disciples at Work"

  Keynote Speaker - Acting Associate Conference Minister, Rev. Dr. James Olson, OCC

The Rev. Dr. James J. Olson, OCC, is originally from the Boston area, and was baptized and raised in the UCC at First Congregational Church, Randolph, Massachusetts. His undergraduate degree is in Hospitality Administration from the University of Massachusetts. He earned his M.Div at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, the S.T.M. and D.Min degrees from Boston University School of Theology. He has also done academic work at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University. Dr. Olson has served churches in Minnesota, Vermont, Connecticut and here in Illinois. Additionally, he served as the Associate Dean of Religious life at Marsh Chapel, and as a lecturer in the School of Theology, both at Boston University. Converting his dissertation to a publishable work remains an unrealized goal. He is a brother of the Order of Corpus Christi, a covenantal order within the United Church of Christ rooted in the theology and ideals of the Mercersburg movement; a liturgical and theological renewal movement of the late 19th c. in the German Reformed church, one of the predecessor bodies of the UCC. Dr. Olson is married to the Rev. Darrick D. Jackson, a Unitarian-Universalist minister who currently serves as the Interim Executive Director of the Unitarian-Universalist Association Minister’s Association, and as an adjunct faculty at Meadville-Lombard School of Theology. They live in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, surrounded by a lot of dusty books, and their two rescue cats. Dr. Olson enjoys cooking, classical and very early American jazz and big-band music. He sings regularly in a large concert choir in Chicago, and has performed with choirs all over the world. He enjoys visiting his parents who still live in Massachusetts in the summer, and Florida in the winter. He has one younger sister, and several nieces and nephews.

 

AGENDA

8:30 a.m.  ~ Registration

9:30 a.m. ~ Worship

10:00 a.m. ~ Break

10:10 a.m. ~ Business Meeting, including election of new officers and committee members

10:45 a.m. ~ Break

11:00 a.m.  ~  Keynote Speaker - Rev. Dr. James Olson

                 "State of the Association - Disciples at Work"

11:45 a.m.  ~  Comments

12:00 p.m.  ~  Lunch

***Each church may send 3 voting delegates to the FVA Annual Meeting (2 adults  and 1 youth).  All authorized ministers with standing in the Fox Valley Association also may vote.

 

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