Adult Prog Guidelines

The Adult Programming (AP) Committee coordinates adult classes, workshops, events and ongoing activities for adults at the church. The AP Committee must include the Minister of Spiritual Life, the Minister of Congregational Life and the DRE and is otherwise open for membership.

Guidelines, Criteria and Process for Approval of New Offerings

a. Parties interested in providing a new class, workshop, group, presentation or some other happening are invited to the next scheduled Adult Programming (AP) meeting to share the idea for a new AP offering for consideration by the committee. If a teacher, leader or facilitator known by the committee makes a proposal, and the teacher, leader or facilitator has applicable experience, then a decision may be made regarding the proposal via e-mail or phone. The AP Committee approves or disapproves of a proposal utilizing predetermined criteria. Any substantive changes to an existing offering must also be reported to the committee.

b. Criteria for approval of proposed adult offerings:

	The primary purpose of the offering is to 'give back' to the church community.
	Some experience or training with the subject matter in relation to the material to be presented is required. For example: If no curriculum is being used, then the presenter must have some degree of content expertise in order to teach, lead or facilitate a class or group; if an established curriculum is being used, less experience with the subject matter may be necessary.
	Some experience teaching, leading or facilitating may be required.
	If the offering being proposed entails any physical or emotional risk taking on the part of participants, then at least one of the teachers, leaders or facilitators must have established experience in that capacity. Pairing a more experienced teacher, leader or facilitator with a potential teacher, leader or facilitator with less experience, but who is motivated to learn, will be encouraged.

c. Once the offering is approved, the teacher, leader or facilitator must work through the LOUU Church Administrator (Audrey Jensen) to arrange a time and place for the event:

Audrey Jensen
Administrator, Live Oak UU Church
512-219-9008 (Church)
Office Hours 8:00-11:00 am Tues & Thur

administrator@liveoakuu.org

d. At least 1 month in advance, you should begin to let folks know about the class. Here are ways to announce the class:

	Send an e-mail with all the details to the Live Oak announce list. If you are not on the announce list and want to get on, please see http://www.liveoakuu.org/email.html for more info. Mary or another member of the Adult Programming Committee can put an announcement on it for you if you do not want to get on the list.
	Put an announcement in the order of service for a few weeks before the first class. Send all announcements to Diane, editor@liveoakuu.org or leave in the Newsletter Editor box in Room 103, by Thursday at 5 PM.

Announcement Guidelines:

keep your announcements to one to three sentences. Any announcement longer than 3 sentences will be edited for length.

include contact information, a phone number and/or an email address

indicate that this is an Announcement for the Order of Service when you send it to Diane.

	Write an article for the newsletter. The announcement in the order of service can be a reminder to check the newsletter for the details. Send all newletter articles to Diane, editor@liveoakuu.org or leave in the Newsletter Editor box in Room 103. Check with Diane about the deadlines for the newsletter. It can be as early as the 20th of the month!
	Make a poster with class details, contact info and maybe even a sign-up sheet.
	Finally, send a paragraph describing the class and when and where it meets to the committee as soon as it is scheduled so we can add it to the Adult Programming master list.